I WAS going to go to bed early, but Angels & Demons is on

[ProfessorArtNerd]

Art! The Vatican! Conclave! Roman scenery! Ewan MacGregor... As a priest!

whatever, this movie is like porn for me!

[pantsparty]

Is this a good book? It's been sitting on my shelf forever!

[game blouses]

LOL, that was the first movie we watched after DS was born. We were so sleep deprived that we had to rewind every scene because we didn't get it. It took us 3 nights to finish it and I don't remember one thing about that movie!

[joshlyman]

Oct 1, 2013 23:50:57 GMT -5 pantsparty said:

Is this a good book? It's been sitting on my shelf forever!

LOVED the book. I liked it more than the DaVinci Code which is borderline blasphemous

[ProfessorArtNerd]

Oct 2, 2013 0:07:00 GMT -5 namasteak said:

Oct 1, 2013 23:50:57 GMT -5 pantsparty said:

Is this a good book? It's been sitting on my shelf forever!

I don't think Dan Brown is a great author but the topic is super interesting to me. Did you like The Davinci Code? It's written in a similar manor.

pantsparty, this is exactly the review I would've written.  And there are some dumb art history type things that bug me- Langdon can't read a word of Italian? He teaches at Harvard for chrissake! I went to Temple and was able to piece together enough to make sense of bernini's sketchbook. 

Also, it helps that the art/scenery of Rome is my JAM, and the baroque style is a favorite of mine, too. Over the top emotion artwork that was made when the Church was rebranding itself? Sign. Me. Up.