Title: doesn't make it to the level of "lite" reading
Product review: It's shameful that Dan Brown, his editors and Doubleday have marketed _The Da Vinci Code_ as an "intelligent" mystery novel, "layered with remarkable research and detail." The writing is astonishingly lazy. The proliferation of chapters is a cheap attempt to cover up the fact that the author isn't able to create a viable structure for the book, interweave elements of a plot or create complex characters. The sentence structure is poor throughout, and the figurative language is utterly inane. The research informing the book is pretty much what one expects from students in a freshmen creative writing class (at a mediocre school). Skip Brown's pseudo-intellectual posturing and read Umberto Eco instead.
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