: The Davinci Code
Author: Dan Brown
All I knew about this book going in was that a) I found the previous Dan Brown book I’d read,
Okay, the book does have some interesting “codes” and little riddles, but it’s nothing particularly challenging. They are interesting and occasionally clever. Dan even screws them up, though, by laughing at his own jokes, pointing out how clever and brilliant they are which is insufferably irritating. My favorite part of the book was the word etemology stuff, where word origins are used to supposedly “prove” assertions made in the book. I have no idea if any of that is accurate (I wouldn’t trust anything Dan says — in fact, if he says it, I’d bet it wasn’t true — the guy’s a complete idiot), but it was interesting and fun. Sadly, the book fails in all regards. It’s a quick and mildly interesting read, but certainly below average and a disappointment considering its best-selling status.
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