[Republicanprofessor]

I read the book, as well as Angels and Demons, and I do love books that encourage people to read about art. I enjoy thrillers and mysteries anyway.

As to whether that apostle in the Last Supper is a woman, and all the rest of it...I just can't believe it. The arrow from one work in Angels and Demons just doesn't point where he said it did.

The books are fun, but remain imaginative fiction. Some people take them far too seriously.

[Blind Eye Jones]

I agree some people take them too far. I thought parts of the story line were very predicable and forced. As well, the book was poorly written... But it had imagination in assembling some of the history and myths. I like the reference to Jean Cocteau and would never have thought that the surrealist, homosexual, opium smoker would be a keeper of secrets... but he would have been a better choice than Dali, but maybe not as good as Picasso. The book had movie written all over it with Anthony Hopkins playing the part of the English curator... again sooo predicable.