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there's a lot of bonkers stuff in those books, so i don't blame you all for not knowing this. but this is up there in terms of wtf even if it's not nearly as gross as the slavery or whatever.

also listen to the shriekcast. they're doing the da vinci code right now

  • KoboldKomrade [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    The whole podcast is pretty good if you want a long form deep dive into HP. They've also done Twilight and did an episode on The DaVinci code. They're pretty good politically from what I can tell.

    I really enjoyed listening to them on commutes or walking back when I was finishing up college.

    • Coca_Cola_but_Commie [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      The DaVinci code

      The movie they made out of that with Tom Hanks and its sequel Angels & Demons (haven't seen the third movie) have long been guilty pleasures of mine. Ian McKellen doing a heel turn, being a criminal mastermind while deluding himself about being a grail knight and rambling about Jesus' secret bloodline (even if he happened to be right about all that), what's not to love? Plus I do like Tom Hanks. And then in the second one, they make you think Stellan Skarsgard is a bad guy by having him be a grumpy dick but it turns out he's the only true man in the Vatican and good-boy Ewan McGregor turns out to be a power-hungry mastermind and even though its the most predictable shit ever put on screen I'm going :soypoint-1: :soypoint-2:

      All this to say, I've never been able to read the novels. I tried, and I'm not even a prose first kind of reader- I read all sorts of books with shitty prose and don't care -but I find Dan Brown to be such a terrible writer on the sentence level that I just cannot force myself to read more than a few dozen pages of one of his books. Only other author I've encountered like that is Robert Ludlum. Ironically, I do like the first Bourne movie quite a bit.

    • Cromalin [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      yeah it's a good podcast. they mention that rowling is a terf in like episode 2 or something, which was back when i think she was just following a bunch of terfs and no one really cared yet

      if i ever am in need of hundreds of hours of podcasts on a short notice they're definitely the first place i'd go