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What do you think about the genre of puzzle books?

I am talking about DaVinci Code and The Rule of Four.

Formulaic but if it gets more people reading about the rennaisance or the classics....

― clellie, Friday, 25 June 2004 13:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought this was a thread about this sort of book:
http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Books/Pix/covers/2002/10/07/monkey2.jpg

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 25 June 2004 14:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I am finding out a lot of interesting things reading The Da Vinci Code--things about Phi, the Golden Mean, and the Mona Lisa.

― pepektheassassin (pepektheassassin), Friday, 25 June 2004 15:53 (twenty-one years ago)

In my case it's not so much about thinking... I just get completely stuck. Ended up reading The Da Vinci Code in one go (took me around 15 hours and a bit of one-handed sandwich making). In retrospect, I can't honestly say I think it's a good book, but that kind of escaping from reality makes it fantastic anyway. Were you thinking of any other books like this? I would love to find them, but don't really know where to look.

― maos (maos), Friday, 25 June 2004 17:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I've not read the Da Vinci code (because I'm being a snob, I admit) but I do like literary/historical mysteries a lot if I'm in the mood.
I loved The Club Dumas, Possession, The Winter Queen.
I am quite irked that the majority of Perez-Reverte's and Akunin's other novels have not been translated into English, I would gobble them up this summer. The bloke liked Foucault's Pendulum and The Name of the Rose a lot, he keeps trying to get his parents to read them when they are talking about the Da Vinci code.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 25 June 2004 17:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Phi and The Da Vinci Code.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 25 June 2004 17:54 (twenty-one years ago)

God I'm being anal but Pi and Phi are two separate letters in the Greek Alphabet

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 25 June 2004 18:00 (twenty-one years ago)

God I'm being anal but Pi and Phi are two separate letters in the Greek Alphabet and in Mathematics (apologies for being so snarky)

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 25 June 2004 18:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, and phi is the one they're talking about. Phi = 1.618....

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 25 June 2004 18:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Check my link for more info. (I know about pi, after all I published this. ;-)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 25 June 2004 18:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Casuistry I'm sick and not thinking right today (I asked for mod)

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 25 June 2004 18:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Don't worry about it. ;-)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 25 June 2004 18:16 (twenty-one years ago)

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