The Da Vinci Code: This decade's The Celestine Prophecy

I'm glad I took a night's break from The Da Vinci Code to read Lester Bangs. He was a stylist and Da Vinci author Dan Brown sure ain't no stylist, unless "clunky" is a writing style. The five New York Times bestselling authors who slobbered over this novel on the back cover are frauds. Three refer to this book as a "thriller", yet never was the fate of the protagonists in doubt. You know a novel's boring when you're hoping someone would just die already to spice things up.

As for the ancient mysteries angle, I think I've read this novel before ... Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum, which was much better. (Translated from Italian even.) At least that guy's got a sense of humor.

But thanks to the Minneapolis Public Library I wasn't cheated out of $24.95.