Da Vinci Code - Who's NOT reading it?!

[acw]

I'm interested to find out if I am the last person standing (or sitting or lying) who has neither read, nor plans to read the Da Vinci Code.  If that's you, please add an "answer" so we can count!

 

If you HAVE read it, please enjoy the other Dan Brown threads, and leave this one to the social outcasts! :-)

 

FINALLY, like quitting smoking, if I decide I want to read the book, that will be MY decision, no amount of external pressure will change my mind.  Therefore PLEASE don't use this thread to tell me/others to read it. 

 

This is merely a confessional! (haha- yes, I know the book has something to do with Catholics, and they have confessionals, I'm so funny!)

[hung6]

Not read and not intending to read.

[betweenjobs]

ditto

[CT]

Same here.

[tetherend]

as above

[Gilli]

I don't intend to read it either though it's sat on my shelf courtesy of my boyfriend. He tends to like the "blockbuster" style of crime thriller ... you know the sort ... where an american detective with some sort of problem themselves (alcohol, ex wife etc) ... is hot on the trail of a serial killer. As he nearly always reads those I've kinda lumped the Da Vinci Code in with the same genre & am not interested.

[flashpig]

Nope.

Never read it.

Never wanted to read it.

I probably would have read it by now if I had only gone by the media reaction, bestseller status and upcoming film, but anybody who I personally know who has read it just doesn't seem to think it's that good.

Maybe one day I will, just to see what it is like, but this could be dangerous because that is what I thought when I turned 16 and realised I had no idea what smoking was like. Maybe I'll end up with an addiction to not-really-that-good literature.

[bernardo]

Me too.
I have not read it.
I have never read it.
I will never read it.
I have no intention of reading it.
I have never heard of it.
It doesn't exist.
It has never existed.
It is a non-book.
Anybody who claims that it exists, or that anyone has ever read it, is insane and evil.
My mind is obsessed by the unquenchable desire ruthlessly to track down, exterminate and vapourise, any deranged thought-criminal who falsely pretends that it has ever existed.

[landie]

Read and enjoyed it.

[Noweia]

*Raises hand to be counted in the not-read group*

[mystress]

I haven't read it either,I much prefer Barbara Cartland and Mills & Boone!

[delilahcat]

Not read it, no intention of reading it

[Aschenbach]

I haven't read it. And I'd add to the list Stevie Wonder, dead people, Cruz Beckham, Jade Goody (probably) and Eddie Izzard (dyslexic).

What other books haven't people read?

[shaneystar]

After about six pages I decided it was a of load rubbish.
Hope this qualifies as having not read it !!

[brionon]

I'll read it if someone gives it to me, I'm a poor pensioner.

[Litchick]

I haven't read it......

[magicdice]

i've read it. there was a ten hour coach trip, nothing else to read. whilst it's a good page-turner, the storyline leaves a lot to desire and left me with the feeling of "and i read that WHY?!?!?" at the end. plus the man has no sense of style.

overall verdict: marginally better than staring out of a window at the dark for ten hours

[eh?]

Ok I admit I have read this book, but on the other hand I can honestly, and proudly, say I have never read The Lord of the Rings, and never will! I have not watched the movies either, I have retained my purity.

[flaming]

No, haven't read TDVC - but I feel as though I have, the amount of stuff I've seen about it.  I haven't actually asked everyone I meet whether they have read it but I don't suppose they have; I have gleaned that it is to do with the R.C. faith and did ask two R.C.mates in the pub. and they haven't read it either.  I suppose there'll be a film and then we'll get all the hype about that.  If we had read it we could play casting the picture!

[graemer]

Sorry Bernado I think I read it. I'm with you magicdice especially on "style". I groaned when I first encountered the Albino monk with blazing red eyes. Flaming the casting game's over. it's Tom Hanks.