Ebert on Brown

Roger Ebert on The DaVinci Code...

~ It is inelegant, pedestrian writing in service of a plot that sets up cliff-hangers like clockwork, resolves them with improbable escapes and leads us breathlessly to a disappointing anticlimax. I should read a potboiler like The Da Vinci Code every once in a while, just to remind myself that life is too short to read books like The Da Vinci Code.~

I have read it as well, and totally agree. Add to that that it is VERY badly researched (the New York Times said it was well researched, then retracted that comment) both factually AND theologically, and you end up with almost no reason to read it.

But I did. Mostly so I can tell other people not to bother, and to correct their impressions that it was based on truth:) The plot was... exactly what Roger says. It kept me reading, but I got more angry as the pages went by because it just kept on adding stuff and never getting to the point. It was like watching a soap opera... the music swells at every commercial, something major happens every 5 minutes... and then the climax was... stupid. And the facts were things I already knew were false (I didn't have to go look most of it up)...

Anyway... Roger's comments are in his review for National Treasure, which looked interesting, but I usually trust his judgement...