[MACVSOG68]

Plus, there's been enough presented in the popular press about the idiocy of this one (more blatant poor scholarship) that I'd guess only the very ignorant would expect much of it other than a thinly disguised fiction. Am I right?

Not sure of the popular press, but the "idiocy" has certainly been expounded on in fundamentalist circles. I didn't know what to expect from it, as I had never read any of his works, but was quite pleasantly surprised. He takes a few very controversial religious views and builds a great mystery around them. I've read a lot of mysteries from most of the popular writers, but Brown is right up there.

Guess I'm one of the 44 million "very ignorant", as my expectations for his next book are out of sight! Funny, I've not seen any condemnation of State of Fear which, to the left, has similar connotations.

But for those who cannot take this work of fiction for what it is, and whose faith may be a house of cards, I definitely don't recommend it.

[theFIRMbss]

>not only just dull, but, ultimately, kind of gutless
>>Huh. As a reader of mysteries, I found it fast moving and quite interesting >>Guess I'm one of the 44 million "very ignorant"

The Da Vinci Code: BAD WRITING for Biblical illiterates

[Gondring]

Didn't mean to insult you...I meant to say that we shouldn't expect non-fiction.

[Gondring]

Funny, I've not seen any condemnation of State of Fear which, to the left, has similar connotations.

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=74