Title: Punishingly stupid
Product review: Dan Brown is essentially a very poor man's Michael Crichton, attempting to spin a breezy adventure story from some stock characters and a scientific/historical what-if scenario. All of the "scholarship" in "The DaVinci Code" is made up out of whole cloth, yet Brown misleadingly presents a lot of it as established fact in a pathetic attempt to inflate his own importance. The book's ideas have been called challenging and controversial; childish and laughable is more like it. But that might be forgivable if he had created an exciting story out of it. Too bad this book reads like the script for the cheesiest, most boring and predictable made-for-TV action movie of all time. Brown's smoke-and-mirrors history may have made this book super-popular, but the emporer has no clothes. Avoid at all costs.
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