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Title: Oh please!!!!!!!
Review: Perhaps I was expecting too much, but I found this novel to be poorly written and full of clichés despite an interesting premise. It reads like an old dime store novel in spite of purporting to have scholarly undercurrents. The writing is amateurish, and the characters are all stereotypes. The twisty storyline wears out its welcome by twisting well past its logical dénouement. By the last third of the book I was getting really annoyed with the writing and wanted the book to end.Dan Brown takes an interesting idea and hammers the life out of it in this cheap "pulp fiction-esque" effort. It'll pass the time, but don't expect much.
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