Google Betas Google Print

Chronic Infection writes "Google is beta testing a book search service called Google Print. Here is a list of books included to date." Quick spot checking turned up excerpts like this one for The DaVinci Code, a great book if you haven't read it.

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The Da Vinci Code....

[evenprime]

That book is utter rubbish. There's nothing special about it at all. Read this entire page for more info.

Drosnin once said, "When my critics find a message about the assassination of a prime minister encrypted in Moby-Dick, I'll believe them." McKay promptly produced an ELS analysis of Moby-Dick predicting not only Indira Ghandi's assassination, but the assassinations of Martin Luther King, John F. Kennedy, Abraham Lincoln, and Yitzhak Rabin, as well as the death of Diana, Princess of Wales. Mathematician David Thomas did an ELS on Genesis and found the words "code" and "bogus" close together not once but 60 times. What are the odds of that happening? Thomas also did an ELS analysis on Drosnin's Bible Code II: The Countdown (2002) and found the message "The Bible Code is a silly, dumb, fake, false, evil, nasty, dismal fraud and snake-oil hoax."* Does this mean that God put in a code to reveal that there is no code?

A great book NOT to read

[Anonymous Coward]

What a piece of crap. Even without the anti-Catholic trash, it would still be a piece of crap.

Re:and furthermore....

[Anonymous Coward]

Umm, everyone heard that joke years ago buttwipe. Next time you hit that "Reply to This" link, make sure what your going to say is actually going to be USEFUL. Thanks, moron.

Re:A better example book excerpt

[Anonymous Coward]

Considering the Da Vinci Code was based entirely off of the poorly researched Holy Blood Holy Grail which, in turn, was based off the lunatic ramblings of Pierre Plantard, I would hardly call it "real."

Re:...a great book if you haven't read it.

[ScottGant]

It's a pile of sacrilegious hog wash.

Yes, things like facts, insight, logic, common sense tend to come across as sacrilegious to those that blindly follow something written 2000 years ago by a bunch of men.

Remember, God didn't fax the bible to mankind...it was written by a bunch of men wanting to control the masses. And for the past 2000 they did just that. But people are getting smarter and they know they're myths. It's dying out.

Thank God!

Re:...a great book if you haven't read it.

[ScottGant]

No, not the myth of "those fishermen". I'm talking about "the church" and all the control and death and wars....take your pick.

How else could you control dirt poor people except by telling them you hold the key to their everlasting lives. Their immortal souls.

This crap actually has grown people beliving that there's this invisible man...and he lives in the sky! And he watches everything you do 24/7...every second, every act you do. And he has this list of 10 rules (with one being that you have to believe in him) and if you break these rules that he'll send you to a place of fire and pain and torture and suffering for ever and ever till the end of time....yet, he LOVES you! (Paraphrasing Carlin there).

But hey, you believe what you want. And I also wasn't talking about the novel in question. Both the bible and the other book are both novels really. Believe one but not the other. Does it really matter?

And yes, I really do know what I"m talking about. Ask me anything you want if you want to be enlightened.