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Title: Really amazingly bad
Review: I have a bad habit. Once I start a book, I finish it, Hell or high water. Only thus can I explain how I got through this one.Paul Laughlin's review is excellent but generous. The book is full of idiotic errors. The supposed geniuses who populate it are amazingly stupid. The relationship between science and the Catholic Church portrayed here is unconnected to reality. The plot twists make a Paul Bunyan story look sober and realistic.OK, we expected all that. What surprised me is how badly written it all is. The writing is clumsily manipulative. The dialog is awful: X delivers a lecture while Y repeatedly gasps in amazement at the astonishing and shocking things he says (which leave you yawning). The plot is completely predictable. I guess, from reading the other reviews, that some readers actually WERE surprised by the ending, but for me the only surprise was the absurdities Brown was eager to commit to force the story to follow its predictable rut.
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