[Lord_Baltar]

Well, perhaps you haven't been here long enough to remember, but the bruu haha around here about Harry Potter was just as strident and hysterical as it is about the Da Vinci Code.

As for Browns claims, he has said the book is fiction.

[Dakara Yakah]

"As for Browns claims, he has said the book is fiction."

Really? He must have changed his mind.

Dan Brown was interviewed by Matt Lauer on NBC’s Today Show, who asked, “How much of this is based on reality in terms of things that actually occurred?”
Brown responded, “Absolutely all of it. Obviously Robert Langdon is fictional, but all of the art, architecture, secret rituals, secret societies—all of that is historical fact.