[Wolfstar]

Normally I enjoy a good romp through fictionalized history and/or pseudo-history. If that's all the DaVinci Code was, I could say it was a mild amusement despite its -- as you note -- amateurish writing style.

However, I'm disgusted by his insistence that it's a work based on historical fact. It isn't, and he knows it. Worse, he knows he ripped off the premise from Holy Blood, Holy Grail, which itself was based on a documented hoax.

In addition, I'm not someone who is easy to offend. Yet even I was offended at Brown's thoroughly despicable anti-Christian/Catholic screed in some passages.

[Jane Austen]

And reportedly his fake "historical facts" were plagiarized from another book.