I've been annoyed for months by my too short and off topic
review of The DaVinci Code, and while adding in my recent reviews to the reviews section, I finally got around to revising it.
My old review said The DaVinci Code was just a rip off of Angels and Demons, gave it middling scores, and then launched into a brief and unsourced discussion of why the heretical Christian aspects of the novel weren't of much interest to me. The review now has more comments about the book itself, a more coherent take on what I thought of the fictional Biblical revelations Brown made, and several blog entries about The DaVinci Code added below the review.
While searching for those, I got to reading my old blog entries with a mention of "davinci" in them (courtesy of Google) and found one entry about the "similarities" between the two books by Dan Brown. The entry took off onto a whole discourse on formulaic writing, and I enjoyed reading it (as I almost always enjoy my old and largely-forgotten writing about writing) and thought it deserved inclusion in the writing section, so I threw up an
Unoriginal Fiction page with that blog entry, a quote from another book review, and a longish-introduction I wrote for the occasion. I know I've written other past entries (I just misspelled "entries" as "entires" for the 3rd time in this post. Yes, it's past my bedtime.) on that subject, and I'll add those to the article as well, someday. Yes, I need to hire or browbeat someone (or clone myself) into going over more of the old blog entries (first time I spelled that right tonight) and putting the good stuff into appropriate articles. At least the stuff on writing, since I am theoretically a writer. And stuff.
Anyway, check out the revised review and the other fiction page if you want to. And if by some miracle you remember other, thematically-appropriate writing I've done, and can find a link to it, please let me know. I shan't be looking for it anytime soon, since I can't think how I'd Google it. It's not like there's a keyword to search on that would lead invariably to the subject. Unlike all of my hundreds of other posts that could and should and eventually will be added to the existing articles pages.
