An alleged librarian has demostrated his thorough training and professional skills with the following review of Da The Vinci Code, as found by The Da Vinci Hoax weblog on a bookseller’s website:
Brandon Vanover (firekiller814@hotmail.com), a Librarian, March 20, 2006,
Get over it
The Da Vinci code was a work of fiction, which means it WASN’T MEANT TO BE REAL. Dan Brown is an excelent writer who had an idea and wrote on it. Just like any excelent writers out there. Most of the anti Da Vinci Code fanatics are just christians with a grudge and need to realize that the bible is also a book and cant be proved to be entirely factual either. I dont understand why people have to complain about fictional books, their not real
Mr Vanover (must be an anagram) and the rest of us will have to wait, probably till Easter, to hear the result of Mr Brown’s trial. I can’t imagine the judge summarising any more concisely than that.
We at A Gaggle of Deer TM would like to say this on the topic of Librarians:
Don’t mess with Carl.
We would also like to say the following on the subject of The Da Vinci Hoax:
In a recent interview with Carl E. Olson, co-author of The Da Vinci Hoax, Carl voiced his frustration with the anti-anti-“Da Vinci Code” side with their continued use of the arguement “It’s just a work of Fiction.” It seems to have gone rather stale. Quite possibly Carl’s frustration stems from a sense that were the argument “It’s just a fiction” sufficient enough to shut down the need for discussion of what is true and false in Brown’s take on Catholicism, then there wouldn’t be much of a book for him to write.
Carl also revealed to our readers his favorite color. It truly was a delightful interview.
I base these views partly on the success of a comparable approach to making models generally available in cognitive modeling (Google for “ACT-R cognitive architecture” for more details.) Good luck!