Guess how many hardcover copies of Da Vinci Code have been published. Give up? don't care? well here's the figure anyway: 48,000,000 Source, Catholic Digest 2006, "The Truth About The Da Vinci Code ::: Answers for Catholics"
If, throwing in money from the movie, and imagining Damn Dan Brown was paid $10 for each hard cover sold, he'd have picked up some large change: more than half a BILLION dollars. Crime pays!! Ha ha ha ha ha....
Of course some of that went to pay the lawyers in England for their defense of Brown in a plagiarism trial, which, unhappily, found him not guilty. He's guilty.
Don't bother to read it: it's trash in the Mystery genre.
More later after I've absorbed Catholic Digest's little booklet that came in a average sized letter envelope, along with a bundle of clippings and a note.
Here's a smidgen from one of the clippings:
"A Harris poll asked people in six countries: 'Do you believe in any form of God or any type of supreme being?' "
Percentage saying "yes," by country: USA 73; Italy 62; Spain 48 Germany 41; Britain 35
The last sure is a shocker to me. For one thing, our Founding Fathers, all English Gentlemen, were for the most part Christian, and the Pilgrims were also Christian.
Barry
2 comments:
You think that's accurate? With all those old churches around England, and the wars fought for religious beliefs....?
Pam
"Maybe in Britain they are closet Christians. I look forward to your response to the Catholic Digest's booklet. How can I get one? - bea"
Here's the address:
CATHOLIC DIGEST
P O Box 6015
New London CT 06320 - 9980
The booklet comes free with a
subscription: One year (12 issues) $18.95
(Before a couple of days ago I had never
heard of the Catholic Digest. My Catholicism
came from family connections, not from the
Bible, or philosophy, or fear of death, Ha ha ha ha.)
The Church must figure that with 48,000,000 hard
cover copies sold, Da Vinci Code readers , at least
some of them, might buy the subscription just
to have a laugh, &/or just to be 'in-the-know'
about the controversies surrounding the mystery
novel.
The booklet is a mine of reference works as well
as a humorous, well-intended, kind debunking.
I love the music of truth telling. The booklet has the
pleasant ring of truth coming from a power position.
Barry
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