From: "Bear Town" <beartown-AT-bear-town.com>
Subject: Re: PUPT: His Dark Materials on CBC Newsworld
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 20:50:37 -0500


My impression was that by "based on fact" Diane meant that Dan Brown based
aspects of the book on historical, not that it was a true story. Personally
I enjoy "speculative historical fiction" (is that what one would call this
genre?) and I thought it was very clever the way historical and biblical
elements were woven together. I hadn't thought about the parallels between
it and His Dark Materials, which I'm familiar with but haven't actually
read.

I wonder how a puppet show based on the Da Vinci Code would be?

Hmmm.....


- Andrew

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From: "W & P KREFTING" <kreftingfamily-AT-msn.com>
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Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 5:02 PM
Subject: Re: PUPT: His Dark Materials on CBC Newsworld


Though this isn't strictly puppet oriented, I take a minor exception to the
characterization of Dan Brown's DaVinci Code as "based on fact . . "  Having
read the book, it is a "pot-boiler" to be sure, though not up to Ludlum or
Ambler in their prime, nor Thomas Gifford (Minnesota's own mystery writer,
"Wind Chill Factor").  I guess I'd say that DC is more: loosely based on
some facts taken from the history of Christianity, mythological and
historical fantasies, and conspiratorial devices.  Shaken, not stirred.  The
line between fact and fiction gets crossed very quickly and without some
knowledge of history and theology it's hard to separate.  I guess that's why
it provokes such a response, rather than being an entertaining yarn.

My two cents.

Wayne Krefting


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