I guess liking this book really depends on how you look at it.
Quick read? Check. Short chapters? Check. Interesting idea? Check.
Sadly, the book was written quite poorly. Mr. Brown's writing style
reminds me of an 8th grader and the plot is almost entirely
propelled by the main character remembering a pertinent bit of info
at just the right moment. There were so many flashbacks, I almost
expected to see Wayne and Garth mime the wavey lines with their
fingers. I remember thinking that this book was written to be a
movie, and might actually make a half-decent one. And that goes to
show that I can be dead wrong. Why, Tom Hanks? Why?
What disturbs me most about this book is that many people who read
it instantly think its completely accurate. That area of history is
hotly debated, folks, and "The Da Vinci Code" is in the fiction
aisle for a reason. If this book sparked your interest, I suggest
doing a bit of research from all sides of this historical
period.
If I didn't have an almost pathelogical need to finish books I
start, I'd have put this one down and never picked it up again. As
it was, I finished it, tossed it into the corner, and gave it a
disgusted look. There it stayed until the Thrift Shop was taking
donations.
I guess the book isn't all bad, as it is getting people who
wouldn't normally read to read. Hopefully in future they'll read
something more worthy of the intense hype then "The Da Vinci Code."