I read that book several times waaaay back in the 80s. And I thought the same thing when I read Da Vinci Code–like hey, I swear I’ve read this before.
Although calling it a history book is playing pretty fast and loose with the term. A great read though, better than Brown’s book for sure.
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He absolutely did. One of the characters in TDC is an anagram for one of the writers of HBHG. I have no real interest at this stage of reading the latter, but I wish I had earlier in my life. I remember thinking it sounded pretty interesting when I read about it in Robert Anton Wilson’s Everything is Under Control, a sort-of encyclopedia of conspiracies/paranormal/alien/etc.
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Melting your mind is a rather apt description of reading Foucault’s Pendulum. Amazing book, one I need to go back and reread.
When I finally read TDC, felt like such a blatant rip off of FC. Doesn’t help that Dan Brown is a hell of a mediocre writer.
We started with episode 1, season 1, because we’d forgotten all of it. Parker Posey is Dr Smith. Parker Posey. That is pretty amazing.
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That’s quite possibly the most amusingly terrible novel I’ve ever read. it just kept escalating, I couldn’t put it down.
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As far as follow ups to smash best sellers go, it was really bad.
But not as bad as Andy Weir following The Martian with Artemis.
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I couldn’t read Foucoults Pendulum, and kinda liked The Da Vinci Code. I know you will all think less of me, and I know that’s just wrong, but take this in the spirit of the Name of the Rose: confession.
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Don’t get me wrong, I liked Da Vinci Code too. Then I read more of his books and oh god they got so bad.
Name of the Rose is an amazing book, one of the best I’ve ever read. As soon as I finished it I ran out to buy Foucault’s Pendulum. I got about fifty pages in.
(It wasn’t necessarily a hard read, I just found the setting of Name of the Rose extremely captivating, and the different vibe in Foucault’s Pendulum didn’t hook me the same way.)
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They’re all the same. The first one you read is a good fun read type book and then you read another one and realize it’s always the old guy former mentor that is the bad guy. I even read a couple just to test this and it’s true. The same story, different names.
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So if I just re-read the Da Vinici Code every time he published a new novel, I’d have read the new novel?
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I just started on Season 1 yesterday. I like it. I too like Molly Parker. I had a major crush on Penny (Angela Cartwright) when the original series ran, Now I’m much older and drawn towards Maureen (Molly Parker, not June Lockhart).
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June Lockhart wasn’t chopped liver!
Expanse Season 6 dropped on Amazon.
I just finished the final book and am starting season 1
I’m doing a couple chapters in the final book each night before bed. I expect to finish in 2024.
I’m forcing myself to finish book 6 before starting season 6. I’m about halfway done.
I find it a little like ASOIAF in that I could certainly tell you most of what has occurred but I’ll be damned if I could tell you what happened in which book.
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Because of this thread I read the first eight Expanse books earlier this year and devoured the final one last week. Similar to MM, I don’t really recall exactly when everything happened, mainly because the titles have little to nothing to do with the events of each book.
I think it’s easier to think about it in terms of a trio of related volumes (Earth-Mars conflict, Ring gates/exploration, Free Navy conflict) and the Laconia trilogy at the end.
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Yes. This kills me. The books might as well have gibberish titles.
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