the pencil reads

Hugely popular, controversial, a bee in the church's pants, I simply
had to read this novel at some point.

I wasn't too disappointed. The first half of the book was fast-paced
and immensely riveting. It started with the murder of a prominent
curator and I was quickly baited by strange details surrounding the
murder. As it wore on though, Dan Brown's liberal use of italics to
show the thoughts of his characters irritated me. Every few lines you
get bombarded with The key to the Holy Grail! or A scroll! or The
divan it is. Seriously! Gag. By the second half I was sick to death of
the melodramatic italics! and the flat characters.

Da Vinci Code had an interesting plot though, but Dan Brown was helped
along by the intrinsic intrigue and mystery surrounding this topic. As
far as the supposed heresies of the book, well, Brown says nothing
new. I will have to tackle these at a later date.

Posted on Sunday, January 22, 2006 at 10:45 AM. :)