The parody was inevitable

Not only has THE DA VINCI CODE spawned knockoffs, rebuttals and much envy, now the parodies are coming out of the woodwork:

When Dan Brown’s labyrinthian thriller “The Da Vinci Code” burst onto the literary scene in 2003, it was to be expected that someone with a great deal of imaginative flair and literary moxy would do a spoof of it in some shape or form.

Who could have foreseen that such a person would be a former advertising agency copywriter from the Philippines named E.R. Escober? What Escober has done is virtually superimpose the content and outline of “The Da Vinci Code” with his second attempt at novelcraft, “The Givenchy Code: An Homage and A Parody.”

It is a mark of literary success when the net of humor and satire is cast over an original work by a creative interloper, thereby altering that work into what promises to be a palimpsest of memorable parody.

As the review details, Escober’s parody isn’t quite so sharp, but amusing nonetheless. But the irony is that the title’s actually about to be used for a book that isn’t a parody. At least, not officially…