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Title: Predicatable and condescending
Review: I read this after hearing great things about it and "The Da Vinci Code". The first 200 pages or so are admittedly gripping, but shortly after, I had the rest of the story figured out and spent the remaining 300 or so pages hoping, futilely, to be surprised. Brown doesn't seem to trust the reader to put any pieces together for themselves -- from translations for every minute bit of Italian that is spoken, to a map in the front of the book that allows the reader to figure out where everything will be taking place hundreds of pages before they happen, the author holds your hand through every step, hoping you're keeping up when in fact you're way ahead of him.
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