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Title: Pretty bad. . .
Review: Several reviewers have already mentioned the factual, historical, scientific and translation errors, so there's no point in going over those in detail. The most offensive part of the book to me was the poor writing and plotting. Brown's foreshadowing served absolutely no purpose; neither did his editorializing. The implausibility of the characters' breadth of knowledge is laughable. On the positive side, though, one has to admire Brown's ability to get the reader to turn pages; despite the poor writing, the book is a Patterson-like read.Although I can't fault the author for the blurbs printed on the cover, I have to wonder if those reviewers who referred to the book as "smart" and "high IQ" are the types who wear round, plain-glass specs because they think it makes them "look" intelligent?I hope that the tremendously popular _DaVinci Code_ (which I have not read) demonstrates a maturation of the author and his talents.
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