Christianity Online: Response to The Da Vinci Code as Imp ...

Some observers claim that the fascination over the Dan Brown work is tied to the means in which the author “strings out the reader,” similar to the way a video game uses action by a doorway or pathway to engage the user. Patrick Moody, pastor of a Baptist church in Florida, notes that Brown’s technique is every bit as artful as that of those who write video games such as Myst. He refers to the Da Vinci book and movie narrative style as formulaic to the video game concept: “You go here and get a little bit of information, then you go there for another nugget… If you have grown up on video games rather than real literature, the formula works.”⁶ Tie that in with the “secrets” provided about the greatest story ever told, and Da Vinci was almost sure to be a marketplace hit.

Of course, stories of the Priory and so many other clues laid out by Brown are clearly fantastical. Fantastical unless one comes to believe them.