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Sun, 24 Jul 2005

The Da Vinci Code [/books]

It took me two sittings to get through this book, not because it's good, quite the opposite—it's so unengaging that I never found myself pausing to think about what I was reading. This book isn't a book at all, it's more like a manuscript for a bad Hollywood movie complete with shallow and stereotypical characters and even product placements from the likes of Range Rover, Coke and SmartCar. The characters routinely devolve into cheap mouthpieces for the author expounding ideas from a fictitious history while seemingly trying to pass it all off as historical fiction. But this is really just a symptom of the greater problem with this book, that it's really the author's attempt to showcase his clever ideas in the guise of a thriller with characters and plot as mere afterthoughts. The result is like an extended episode of Duck Tales centered around the Bible Code, except that even Scrooge McDuck has more depth than The Da Vinci Code's antagonists.

A colossal waste of time: two stars out of ten.

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