Lucullian delights
You are amazingly creative! BTW, I also didn't like The DaVinci Code. I think his writing is dreadful, no style to it, so that when the story is still mildly interesting, I find the writing quite annoying. But my friends tell me that I am just "too critical".
Ilva the pickled little guy is just too cute!
Did not like the book either, did not finish it. However, love the idea of your salad and since I got a nice supply of spelt and mozarella in just yesterday I'm doing this for lunch today. Grazie!
Connie
Oh that's too marvellous! LMAO!! I agree - the book was a disappointment. I also read it because everyone was talking about it and found myself yelling at the characters and the author in annoyance. Ripe for parody, really!! (and anyway, the whole idea has been done before - and better - in Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose. Now *there's* a book!)
Thanks for participating - you are a star!
Count me in as another one that doesn't get the whole Dan Brown fad... I didn't read DaVinci Code... but I read Angels & Demons after a trip to Rome. I still can't believe that I read the whole thing, the writing was so bad. But then, once I start a book and have invested a few hours I feel obligated to finish it just in case it gets better! Maybe one day I'll learn (at least I didn't feel obligated to read DaVinci Code!)
Love the post. Still laughing from the opening photo!
It's sooo nice to hear that I'm not alone! Sometimes I have thought so and I don't know how many times I have raised heated discussions on the subject! But at least I know now what NOT to read!
LOL! Love it!
Paz
Well don't read Angels and Demons bc it is WAY worse than the Code. But I liked the Code bc I listened to it on tape and so it was sort of exciting just listening to a bit every night before I went to sleep. Oh, and it is Fiction.
paz-I knew you would!
Gabriella-I know but he states in the preface that all the facts etc are real and precise which is not true and I just think it's quite bad to fool readers in that way! anyway, what one person loves someone else hates-that's life isn't it?
Hi Ilva
Don't die of shock now... but the EoMEoTE#16 roundup has finally been posted! Go check it out...
http://cooksister.typepad.com/
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Hope to see you again next time!
And here I thought that I was the only one who thought "The DaVinci Code" was highly overrated. Luckily, I did not actually pay for the book but put it on hold at the library when it was first published after friends and colleagues told me that I just HAD to read it. I believe that I had to wait a year before getting hold of copy.
Talk about overrated!! I think the best part of the book was staring at the puzzles on the outside cover.
Love your plate of egg and pickles!
-Elizabeth
P.S. Like you, Ilva, I've removed pretty much all of the book from what's left of my mind. And I somehow doubt that I'm going to be seeing the movie version - unless I'm trapped on a long long overseas flight with no reading material and that is what happens to be what's playing on the screens.
Jeanne-I have to come over and take a look! Thanks!
Elizabeth- we are many but noone dares to say it out loud because it causes too much discussion maybe...
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