[Jolla]

I totally agree. The DaVinci Code was decent reading and entertainment, I did not take it as gospel and thus was not too offended.
On the other hand A&D was dumb, the premise, the execution of the plan, almost all of the action was ridiculous and pure Hollywood that if you have any mind, you would consider absurd.

[50sDad]

"The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" was fictional, but idiots through the ages have latched on to it and believing it true, done horrible things with it. It is like Golden Compass: bile and bigotry passed off as entertainment to gull the gullible.

Recently, I read that the American Psychological Association had overturned their previous announcements and had decided that there is no genetic linkage to being homosexual. And yet, generations of ill-informed idiots will still insist there is a link, because the proclamation was covered on page one above the fold, and the retraction printed on page 321 of Section Z.

[Stonewall Jackson]

Another interesting book was The Romanov Prophecy, which was a wonderful read, so long as you didn't look too closely at the facts. I'm sorry, but as crazy as the CIA sometimes is, there is no way that during the height of the Cold War they'd send a black agent into the Soviet Union and expect him to blend in...nope, not going to happen.