Author Dan Brown may or may not actually believe what he writes, but he writes so well in this genre that the average reader will not even care. As a matter of fact, the plot was so engaging, and the content of the book was so rich, that I had a hard time putting it down. I was forewarned about the heresy in the book, and so I started reading with a determination to force my way through an unpleasant read. Not bad for a book with a seemingly unmanageable mix of plot structure, conspiracy theories, and mountains of detail about Catholic orders, renaissance art, theological heresy, and theoretical mathematics.
The book was on the top of that list last week, and it has made the list for 18 straight weeks. "The Da Vinci Code" is this year's winner, sitting at the top of the ratings this week and listed at second place in The New York Times hardcover fiction list. The summer publishing season seems always to include a thriller that leaps to the top of the best-seller charts and stays there until the fall – when readers get serious and return to school and work.
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