I've been reading The Da Vinci Code on my morning train journeys. It's not the best written book I've ever picked up. It's not making me swoon with any sort of proactiveness in my writing. The characters seem dull and wooden, the story itself is the last 60 pages of Foucault's Pendulum without the funny parts.
The problem with the writing is just that it reminds me so much of the way people, or Livejournal users, communicate. Every sentence seems to want to be followed with an exclamation point. Like the below:
Da Vinci Code, Internets style:
Sauniere: OMG! MY SEKRIT IS 2 B FOUND. WAT DO i DO?!!11!!!?
Silas: im gunna kill u w/my gun. aftr u tell me ur sekrit!
Sauniere: Ok, its under sum copper
Silas: HAHA! I SHOT U NOW!
Sauniere: I WIL msg SP.
COP: OMG! hes ded. A msg for Langdon. He did it!
Langdon: OMG! Werdness.
SP: They think u did it!
Langdon: O RLY?
SP: Y RLY.
Langdon: oic
SP: ouc
COP: iawtc
Langdon: Need a wee. BRBAFK.
COP: OK
SP: UR Bign watched!
Langdon: RLY?!!!
SP: Not this again.
Langdon: OMGWTFBBQFUCK!
SP: Y!
Langdon: OK. wut do we do?!!!111!!!
SP: I will save U!
Langdon: OK. kthanx
COP: folow that truck! hez on to us.
Silas: OMG!OMG! OMG! TOTLLY FOUND IT.
Teacher: O RLY?
Silas: YA RLY!
Teacher: NO WAI! GO THEIRE AND FIND IT.
Silas:SRLSLY?
Teacher: SRSLY.
Silas: OK. TTYL.
Langdon: I KNOW EVRYTHNG.
SP: O RLY?
Langdon: .
SP: I no stuff 2.
Langdon: 2 teh embassy1
SP: We cant go thiere
Langdon: OH NOES!!!!
SP: Key to mystery here. Stuff happnd.
Langdon: addy! HOORAY! Google maps.
SP: K, drive there!
Silas: gives me somefin for smashin!
Nun: OH NOES!11!!!!111
Silas: TEH SUCK. PWNED. killz! MYSTRY.
Nun: DED.
That's about as far as I've read. I think my future endeavors will be more entertaining whilst imagining all characters as O RLY owls.
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