The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown (2006, Paperback)

After giving up on Angels and Demons about 50 pages in, I promised myself I'd stay away from Dan Brown whose writing is so bad he gives new dimension to the word awful. Well, I now have to go to another hand to count the number of books I that I have started and never finished. I'm at six and Mr. Brown can claim 2 of those. I made my way 75 or so pages into Da Vinci Code and quit. I won't attempt to discuss the blatant anti-Christian bias of the book; others have already done that quite effectively. But even for escapist pulp fiction, the plot is contrived and the characters are insipid, stereotypical, and silly. The dialogue is so bad that..... well, enought said. I hated it. Think of it as Indiana Jones lite. Very very lite.