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“Do not start me on The Da Vinci Code ... a novel so bad that it gives bad novels a bad name."

(Discussion at Woodruff Auditorium in Lawrence, KS; October 7, 2005.)”
― Salman Rushdie

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Apr 29, 2018 10:27AM

I haven't evaluated The Da Vinci's historical research and similarly The Satanic Verses. Both used religious history. He's criticizing a style that he himself used.

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