Lovely Movie

This week I just found out that the novel Lovely Bones will be made into a feature film. It was supposed to be released in March 2008, but due to complications, it was rescheduled to December 2009. My friends and I will be seeing it, hoping that it meets the standards that the best-selling novel did. Peter Jackson directed the film, since he did a terrific job on the Lord of the Ring Trilogy novels, everyone will be expecting this movie to have the same impact. Saoirse Ronan stars as Susie Salmon, and Mark Wahlberg and Rachel Weisz as her parents.

The Impact of the Truth

If there was anything that was different in The Da Vinci Code, the effect would not have been as influence. What made the book so captivating was the partial truth to it. Without it, people would have just seen it as another book left on the shelf. The reason it was a successful novel was not because Dan Brown knew the whole truth about the secret in Mona Lisa's smile. It was because he knew how to make his readers think, and knew what they could possibly think of. He is a skillful exploiter of the truth. Preparing the book with interesting facts, readers start to believe everything the author says.

Confusion from the Author

Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code, a fictional novel, was written in a factual means. Brown took controversial topics like religion and myth and created a literary masterpiece. The author used actual organizations, places, and even some actual names. He also created fictional characters and places, but made no attempt to allow them to appear. Although the facts used in this book was misinterpreted, it played an important role in distracting the reader's attention away from their own thoughts and onto those of the author.

A Historical Story

The Da Vinci Code was different than books that I usually take the time to read. I was lucky enough to have the version of the novel that had pictures and explanations of the historical objects used in the story. If I did not have that, I would have lost with all these Parisian artifacts. All the mysteries and the solutions that come from it are so suspenseful that I did not want to stop reading. There were stories and myths on religion predominately.