Title: Eco does it better
Product review: This is a good beach read but that is about it. My main problem with it was that I had been lead to believe by the hype that it was intellectual. As far as I can see, Dan Brown has taken a mis-mash of tired old theories about the power of the Church and symbology and formed them into a pretty good thriller. There is very little new here in the way of ideas and the writing style is not particularly lyrical (two things that I personally like in novels.) Umberto Eco has done somewhat the same thing in Foucault's Pendulum and he did it infinitely better.
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