DVC Fever

Almost everyone got hit by the DVC fever. People flocking the bookstores, in frantic search for the bestseller, attempting to read (more like scanning through as fast as they could) the book before catching the most awaited movie of the year. Everywhere there were people holding copies of it, its a sold out. Even 2-3 days in advance. Thats how crazy people are about this movie.

Even those who normally wouldn't be caught dead reading a book join in the fray of last minute browsers/readers. 3 years back when the book was first published, most of the people out there weren't even bothered to read (except for fiction freaks and book lovers). Its the "in" thing; everyone is talking about it.

With increasing books-to-movies, comics-to-movies adaptions, at the rate it is going right now, we could only expect more to come in the near future. While animations seemed to have lost its appeal, book adaptions are taking over the silverscreen by storm.

With all the controversies surrounding the movie as well as the book, I reckon Dan Brown would be sitting back and enjoy the storm of controversies his bestseller managed to stir up.

Why is everyone making such a huge fuss over a novel? It only happened to be a brilliant novel written by genius writer. A piece so well written that it confuses the readers, get them lost in inside a story filled with clever blends of fact and fiction. What happens after one finishes the book is something very individual. Whether or not one let fiction becomes a fact does not matter to other people. This is something very individual. we cannot control what people can read or can't read, we cannot control what people can see or can't see.

If we were to say that faith towards a certain religion might change after reading the book, it doesn't work this way as faith always prevail over other elements that attempts to alter it. If it was that easy to shake a Faith that someone held, perhaps the question now is on the person's faith and beliefs,not on the book?

It's practically all over the news. The Church, Opus Dei, Albinos, Historians, fellow bookwriters, Plagarism and the list goes on.
By the way, reading all these stories are more interesting that reading about Bush and his plans. =P

Its a good book. There's no doubt about it. I guess people just have to kick back and relax a little. Life's is so much more fun than fighting over a novel.