Title: Exasperating someone else wrote; excruciating would be a better word
Product review: This book was given to us for Christmas or I wouldn't have read it. To satisfy any curiosity I had about something that gave the Pope such a hissy fit he encouraged Catholics to read it by banning it, I'd rather have seen the movie. Wading through all that clunky text was every bit as bad as I expected. But clunky writing wasn't enough for Dan Brown, who felt obliged to assault his readers with a lot of misinformation (such as that The Last Supper is a fresco when it's actually a painting). Rather than go into lengthy criticism of the book, I'm pointing readers to an in-depth one by linguist Geoffrey K Pullum. The URL is http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000844.html and every point Mr Pullum makes is 100% valid.
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