I hope you win this one.

As a reader of thrillers, I feel that “Da Vinci Code” exploits its readers’ feelings and cops out at the end by abruptly putting all the blame on the antagonist who is suddenly a madman. I know this is common practice in the genre, but somewhere, a line has been crossed by that book – if the author had wanted to enlighten, it should not have cowardly relegated its bold pronouncements on the foaming mouth of a crazy old man. As it stands it is nothing but an ejaculation of the mind. Too bad, too many Christians had to be offended for Mr. Brown’s momentary pleasure.

I tried to post a comment on your blog this morning, but I kept getting an error message that it was not available.

Hopefully this is a temporary glitch.

Daughter of God is a far better book than DV Legacy (and has more in it that was ripped off for The Da Vinci Code).

Also, I thought you might be interested to know that a Manila columnist, Max V. Soliven, turned up some interesting information last year that indicates Dan Brown has falsified many of the details of his own life.

Soliven’s column is at: http://www.newsflash.org/2004/02/ht/ht004505.htm

Head for the second item (after ****)

And then, tthere is a cool blog thread that takes this even further at: http://leegoldberg.typepad.com/a_writers_life/2005/03/it_isnt_easy_be.html

If you scroll down about halfway, to, “TEN QUESTIONS THE MEDIA WON’T ASK DAN BROWN,” you’ll see the verification of Soliven’s suspicions.

This is clearly an instance where the media have ignored a story and given Dan Brown a free ride. I hope Soliven picks it up again. I tried to find an email to send him this information, but failed to do so.

I have heard of some rumors before that Dan Brown was lifting ideas from other books for his own though I didn’t get to read more about it, not until your blog at least.

Now, I’m interested in reading your books. I just hope they have copies in local bookstores here in the Philippines.

I have read most of Brown’s latest books, and it would do great justice if I also read yours. Keep up the fight!

Regards,
Abe

Random House and its parent company, Bertelsmann want very much to silence me. They are trying every sleazy tactic to keep this from going to trial.

The Da Vinci Crock Blog (http://davincicrock.blogspot) highlights many clearly documented instances (verified using mostly other filings in the case) where Random House lawyers have deliberately written things falsely to make it appear that I agree with one of their points (when I don’t), that I have not contested something (when I have), that I have said something or done something that I have not.

If their case is as good as they claim, why do they need to lie? Why can’t they present their case honestly, using facts and the truth?

Why have they refused to allow Dan Brown to file an affidavit attesting that he did the “extensive” research he claims or even that he actually wrote The Da Vinci Code?

We raised these issues in our April 8 legal filings. An affidavit is an easy no-brainer. Yet, their failure to do so basically means that they are admitting defeat on huge amounts of their previous arguments.

Why are they keeping Dan Brown from saying those things under oath?