The Da Vinci Code ...
I read the book it was based on 'The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail' about 15 years ago. Great stuff. A wonderfully plausible conspiracy theory.

The authors of THBATHG; Messers Leigh and Baigent promptly sued once they realised someone had made squillions by spinning a decent tale out of their rather dry academic work. That was pretty rich when their book got a cameo in the Da Vinci Code when one of the main characters took it off a shelf and brandished it aloft.

Oh ... and the character's name? Leigh Teabing. What a fucking stupid name! Hang on. Teabing is an anagram of Baigent. One of the bloody main characters was named after the authors of THBATHG. And the daft fuckers sued him for not properly acknowledging their book as source material.
(Que?, Thu 8 Dec 2011, 6:57, 3 replies)

So your point is that this wonderful consipracy theory book was written by idiots?

( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Thu 8 Dec 2011, 8:41, closed)

the truth is out there

(TheManWithThePlan cussed your mum on, Thu 8 Dec 2011, 10:06, closed)

Whilst no one expects authors of fiction
to annotate their work with meticulously referenced sources, adding an acknowledgements page is perhaps the polite thing to do, rather than some vaguely hidden reference.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Thu 8 Dec 2011, 10:32, closed)