The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail

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• KingOfCoders · Feb 3, 2025 · Recommends

  I found the book "The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail", from which he took all the ideas for his first bestseller, more interesting than his novel.

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• Krasnol · Jul 21, 2023 · Mentions

  I would love to see a study on the influence of Dan Brown books on the likelihood of readers to believe in (popular) conspiracy theories. Somewhere in the 90s I got a book "The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail" from a friend who was into obscure conspiracy theories. It was a fun read, but in the end I took it more like a joke. Unlike my friend. Years ago, my SO came home with Browns "The Da Vinci Code" and…

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• Terr_ · Jul 21, 2023 · Mentions

  > It was as if someone wrapped a cheap crime template around "The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail" and my SO loved it. This "cheap wrapping" makes me think of Atlas Shrugged. I read the book completely "blind" without foreknowledge of it or its author--recommended to me by a relative. Partway through…

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• eggy · Jun 12, 2016 · Mentions

  …the public and weather [1]. These texts were always similar to real academic publications - footnotes, bibliographies, photos, graphs - they were very fun to read! He also turned me on to the book 'The Holy Blood And The Holy Grail' published 21 years before Dan Brown's 'The Da Vinci Code', and before learning of the plagiarism lawsuit, it seemed like a fictionalized account of the book. Of course Dan Brown created a story outside…

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