OT - Finished "The DaVinci Code"

[Black_Knyght]

narf poit chez BOOM said:
What, exactly, are they *claiming?

* Calling it fiction sounds like a convenient excuse so they don't have to defend their claims, to me.

That's the point here: What EXACTLY have you ACTUALLY heard publically, from either Dan Brown or Ron Howard ???

There's a ton of controversy, speculation, and commentary out there right now, but little if any word from the specific sources of it all. And the book WAS published as a work of fiction

Dan Brown based that fiction on ideas both popular and unpopular, true enough. The part that sends me rolling to the floor is how EVERYBODY is making such a big deal over a novel that NEVER stated, absolutely & definitively, that it was a work of historical, social, or scientific fact.