See...now if Christians were as fucking loony as moslems, Brown would have a been a dead man long ago...

Brown Acknowledges 'Reworking' Passages

"Dan Brown returned to the witness stand Wednesday and acknowledged "reworking" passages from an earlier book for his best-selling novel "The Da Vinci Code," but he firmly rejected charges that he ripped off key ideas for his conspiracy thriller. The author spent a third day defending..."
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Not that Christians can't go over the top at times, but imagine, just imagine if Brown were writing about the sand fleas. And sweet christ on a crutch but his ideas weren't exactly brandy new, okay. Assembling centuries of rumor into one mystery novel was what brought him fame AND grief, but c'mon. Same old shit, different author. And once I read his description of a certain statue that I'd always admired...and his depiction was so frickin dead wrong...that sunk it for me. The thing had been missing it's arms for centuries, and he portrays it as a major clue with it's outstretched hands pointing in a direction the hero must go.

Bogus is bogus but at the end of the day who cares.