Bestseller (Booket Unnumbered): El Código Da Vinci (Robert Langdon 1) / The Da Vinci Code (Paperback)

from tftorrey

This is one of those books that I avoided reading for a long time. Sure, it was popular, and it had an intriguing concept, and a lot of people thought it was very good. A lot of writer people, however, denigrated the book, saying it had too many adjectives and adverbs, among other things. When I ...

from shrubbery

Brown writes like an over-earnest student doing English homework. There's just no insight, nothing to suggest an interesting mind or an unusual point of view. His style is so superficial and feeble that all suspension of disbelief evaporates after a couple of pages. Chuck in awful characterisatio...

from Andibook

The historical and scientific information is mostly bunk - but that's excusable (or it would be, if Brown wasn't marketing his books as factual). What is unforgivable is the insufferable characters and their inane, repetitive plot. For anyone who plays video games: this is the FedEx quest of hist...

from Johnny1978

I'd like to go on record as stating that the conspiracy theory underpinning this exceptionally boring novel neither interests, nor offends me: I do not object to this book on any moral or religious grounds. Nor do I consider the term "popular fiction" an example of invective: I am not a book snob...

from sirfurboy

This is the worst drivel I have ever read. The author seems to know nothing about European geography or politics. His plot is ripped off from the delusions of someone else. Every time he throws in some little fact or snippet, it is wrong. Guaranteed wrong! He repeats urban legends without so much...