[Bananafish] Book Brokers

[Levi Ray]

You make a good point about the more knowledge you have of DVC's subject
matter the more skeptical and dismissive you have of the book but at the
same time it is still fiction.  Should facts get in the way of a good
story?  Now maybe someone cant get into the story because they loathe
Brown's "amatuerish" writing and thats one thing but what about just
enjoying a good story?  What about a 7 yr old Seymour writing Hapworth?

DISCLAIMER: I say that with no intention whatsoever of putting Dan Brown on
the same level as JDS.


On 5/25/06, James Rovira <jamesrovira at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Yes, I know the difference between fiction and non-fiction, Mike. I
> also know that for fiction to work it has to suspend disbelief.
> Getting basic, well known facts wrong makes the suspension of
> disbelief very difficult for almost all readers -- you too, Mike --so
> the only question is about what constitutes basic, well known facts
> for most readers.
>
> The more educated a reader is the more likely they are to have a hard
> time suspending disbelief; in the case of Brown's book, this is
> especially the case if the reader has any knowledge of church history
> or Christian or Jewish sacred texts because the book is so freaking
> ignorant.
>
> Jesus as a human being has nothing to do with whether or not he was
> married and had kids, as there are and have been plenty of real human
> beings who never marry or have kids.
>
> If Brown wanted to highlight the humanity of Jesus he should have
> written a scene with Jesus taking a shit...using Brown's book for
> toilet paper.
>
> Most people ignore the fact that there's no sound in space when
> they're watching Star Wars, or that you can't dodge -light- the way
> Luke ducks under a blaster charge, but I bet at least some engineers
> or physicists or other scientifically literate people get annoyed.
> There's one article on the Metaphilm website that describes in great
> detail just how wrong a film was about NYC streets and how often --
> good example of carelessness making the suspension of disbelief
> difficult.  But, I wouldn't have that same problem with the same film
> because I'm not as familiar with NYC streets as this writer was.
>
> However, most people would think a film was being careless if it
> showed a person casually and normally driving on the left side of the
> road through Wyoming -- unless there's some explanation for it.
>
> Jim R
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