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| Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown a Plagiarist ? First of all for all those who are not familiar with the word Plagiarist: dictionary.com defines Plagiarism as : Quote:
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source: The Da Vinci Code Case Dan Brown denied that he was influenced by The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail. Dan Brown termed The Da Vinci Code as original historic research while the views of Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh was that no-one could write a novel based on any research. ![]() source: The Da Vinci Code Case The court seemed amazed that they brought the case and the verdict was in favour of Dan Brown at first. When this book(holy blood holy grail) came to public attention because of this case, it was easy to see that Quote:
source: The Da Vinci Code Case The readers of Da Vinci Code would be very familiar with the character - Sir Leigh Teabing - the character who outlines the background highlighted above. Here comes the most interesting part of this article: Sir Leigh Teabing is an anagram of Baigent and Leigh(the authors of The holy blood and the holy grail). The forename is very clearly taken from the name of Richard Leigh The surname - Teabing is arranged from the same set of letters as in Baigent. Look carefully. Quote:
The judge gave both Baigent & Brown short shrifts and the issue ended with mutual understanding between the authors of the two books. the co-author of "the holy blood and holy grail" - Henry Lincoln who was not a part of the case as his name was not used as an anagram is still against this mutual understanding. So, was this a deliberate act by authors of both the books in consensus because this event really proved to be beneficial for the book "the holy blood and the holy grail" and it gained huge attention all over the world. I wrote this article based on the documentary movie "Behind the Da Vinci Code" which I saw on History Channel a few months ago and some research on the internet. I tried to keep this article as short as possible as people who are not familiar with the book won't be able to understand it. You can find more details about this incident on the internet. Thanks Plz add some reputation points for me and rate the thread if you liked it. Last edited by saurav_k; 01-31-09 at 12:38 AM. | ||||
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very disappointed as a few lines were taken in between the entire text from that site - it took time for me to exactly quote all the stuff taken from there - i think when you were moving this thread here i was doing just the quoting part using the edit feature. plz plz plz - move this article to its original thread - i really put in lot of effort in this article - this is very disheartening. | |
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Rep Power: 10 | Well, In my view both are peices of fiction that masquerade as history, misleading people to think that was what actually happened. -F |
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| @admin/mods Thanks a lot for letting these thread back here. Quote:
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which 'facts' are you referring to? -F p.s nothing is beyond the scope of discussion ;-) | |
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Jesus and Mary Magdalene were married and had a child do you agree with it? actually i am not willing to discuss these claims and facts here coz they might be controversial and i am not quite sure whether it is allowed according to the rules of the forum - i may end up getting an infraction. i will tell you one thing - i also don't agree with most of the claims and facts of the book but there are definitely some which i agree with. there are people with two kinds of opinion about this book - 1) who believe in these facts and claims 2) who dont believe(not necessarily critics) according to me 1) those who don't believe take it as fiction and 2) those who believe take it as facts what are your opinions about this episode - i mean the basic story of this article? Last edited by saurav_k; 01-30-09 at 11:42 PM. | |
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| I read the book .... Only watched half the movie ,it was so crappy i could nt watch it fully ...... I dont think Dan Brown is a plagiarist .... simply because of the fact that he s an excellent writer .... People acussing him of plagiarism have conveniently forgotten the other books he has written like "Digital Fortress" ... "Angels and Demons" ... "Deception Point" etc etc I had been reading Dan Brown's books way before he wrote 'The Da Vinci Code' and i remember that every single of his books were a hit ..... And having extensively read many books from many fiction authors myself , i ll rate him as one of the best story makers of all time ... His plots are truly thrilling without any loop holes [unlike that of say Sydney Sheldon].... The other books are stories based on different subjects and in different timelines ..... There is nothing wrong in 2 authors writing about the same subject ..... it does nt mean one has copied the other ! Quote:
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2.There are many controversial ideas in the books like Jesus having married and Having a heir and of a secret society having great members such as "Sir Issac Newton" having existed tasked with the job of protecting the Hier line of Jesus....These Controversial claims existed before Dan Brown wrote the book , and he simply used it in his book .... But he clearly claims that they are a work of fiction [refer first quote] Last edited by ShAdOwCoN; 01-30-09 at 11:42 PM. Reason: Automerged Doublepost | |||
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| Actually he is not an expert in code language ..... He makes a lot of research before writing a story , in this case taking advice from Professional Cryptanalysts and Cryptographers ... He even took advice from 2 anonymous Intelligence ex-officials From NSA [A highly secret intelligence organization in US] |
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| Dan Brown obviously does nt reveal in "The Da Vinci Code" That he used anagrams of names of some other people ... so i was not aware of its existence ... I have nt seen that Documentary from the History Channel |
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| Is that the only Anagram used ? It does sound like a funny name tho |
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plot ..Did nt i say i have read the book already !! I was asking for anagrams of Fiction Author/Book names regarding the same subject ,he may have hidden in his story | |
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| i am not sure about more anagrams but there are certainly some more analogies between these two books. Quote:
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