Title: Not an original work
Product review: Brown's *The Da Vinci Code* mixes the holy-grail story with shallow, web-based research on symbolism, iconology, paganism, early Christianity, and historical tidbits of certain historically significant places in London and Paris. His structure is choppy, and he seems to lift his prose from other sources. Consider the following excerpt from his book (p. 395):"Westminster Abbey is considered neither cathedral nor parish church. It bears the classification of royal peculiar, subject only to the sovereign."[...]"Neither a cathedral nor a parish church, Westminster Abbey is a 'royal peculiar' under the jurisdiction of a Dean and Chapter, subject only to the Sovereign."One can only guess how many other such examples pervade the book. Very disappointing.
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