I didn't read the book, know nothing of the story or plot, and learned long ago to ignore the "limp-wristed" movie reviewer crowd that seems to have it's own agenda. I plan to see it sometime this week. They can go watch reruns of "Broke-his-back Mounting -him"

As to the issue of it being fact or fiction I was firmly in the camp of just calling it fiction, until I recently read that Brown himself says it is fiction based on fact.

I am actually expecting more of a treasure hunter/spy story rather than religious.

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As to the issue of it being fact or fiction I was firmly in the camp of just calling it fiction, until I recently read that Brown himself says it is fiction based on fact.

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Well, Brown opens the book by giving a list of 'facts', which now turn out to be a bit shaky. Even if you take the whole Magdalene theory as being pure fiction, you'd expect things like the Priory of Sion (one of his 'facts') to be solid.

The authors of that book go out of their way to make very big claims, and then say that they are just speculating, they can't prove anything.

Dale Brown does much the same in his "Old Dog" series of novels with quotes from newspapers and other sources to set the scene. The Shaaras populated their Civil War and Rev War novels with real people, but we don't begrudge them. On TV, the Law and Order franchise is "ripped form the headlines" but we don't expect to get the exact story as it happened.

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