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Title: One of the great mysteries of literature...
Review: ...namely, why the hell does anyone buy this guy's books, let alone enough of them to propel them to best-seller status?Crude prose, mechanical plotting, ludicrous motivations, cheap suspense tricks, shoddy scholarship and geography, cardboard characters: lord, the list goes on.Seriously, save your money. Maybe its follow-up, ''The Da Vinci Code", takes an enormous leap in quality, but I'm not willing to test that theory without some firm evidence.
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