Wow i had never read better book

you need to read more books ^^ but I liked it too

I liked Angels & Demons better but Da Vinci Code was pretty badass. Also read Deception Point, didn't like that one so much.
Read A&D though, the ending is spectacular.

More books would help.

Da Vinci code is a by the numbers pulp thriller littered with a boatload of cliches, a super Mary Sue, and multiple absurd dilemmas contrived with equally ridiculous solutions that exist for no other reason than to display how 'brilliant' the protagonist is. The prose is weak and the pacing abrupt to say the least (cliffhanger heavy anyone?), but it'd be just another somewhat poorly written pulp novel were it not for its annoying pretensions to religious insight and relevance. The guy pretty much embellished some odd, but known historical facts, made up a few more, ripped off some standard conspiracy theory drivel, peppered it with material from Holy Blood, Holy Grail, added a few chase scenes and called it a book.

The only people to call it 'brilliant' are inevitably those who never read. I'd consider its enormous success to be yet another sign of the apocalypse, but seeing how rampant stupidity tends to be lately, we'd be ushering in the end of days last week if I were to call out every instance of mass idiocy. Its shit. The author is shit. From what I understand its almost the same damned novel as Angels and Demons, but I certainly couldn't be asked to read that one. 'Fool me once'...sort of thing.

I guess its sole positive accomplishment is that it finally got a whole shitload of adults who haven't picked up a novel since High School to actually read. Which on the scale of accomplishments, is sort of like patting your deranged son on the back for shooting up his school because at least he set his mind to something. Bah.

I think someone needs to introduce this guy to the concept of "fiction".

Watched the movie before reading book and as usual the book was 10x better than movie. But seriously there are much more better books than this one.

You are too stupid to live. Shoot yourself.

I loled hard. I enjoyed your post I really did, and have never read this book. But you really do hate this book and the way it got recieved don't you? It almost makes me think a bitter author who knew he was the better than Brown, but never made it to the publisher.

Dan Brown = bad author. Or maybe he's a a great author and the stories he writes and the way he tells them just blows hard?

I couldn't sit down to write a novel if my life depended on it. But I still don't like pieces of shit being universally adored. Rubs me the wrong way. Of course I probably wouldn't despise the work...hell, I'd probably high five Dan Brown for hitting the literary lottery except for the annoying fact that he tries to make this book out to be so much more than what it is. Like he's revealing deep, dark religious secrets and historical insights held tightly by the bitter Vatican....when in reality anyone with 5 minutes worth of Wiki-ing could find the shit (that which was actually true or provable)...and even probably note where he grossly overstated things. I doubt he initially So much undeserved praise from schmucks who haven't read a book in decades. They fucking heralded this thing as the second coming...and that's generally why I shit on it harder than most. There are worse books. There are worse authors. But this one's pretty bad and pretends to be much more than it actually is...and that sort of pretension annoys the hell out of me.