[Oztrich Boy]

Anyone got an opinion on how The Da Vinci Code compares to Foucault's Pendulum?

[Cincinatus]

Foucault's Pendulum is a great book! Funny and irreverant. Clever and erudite. Vastly superior to The Da Vinci Code. IMHO.

[goldstategop]

I love Umberto Eco's book on The Templars. All kinds of stuff and its as funny as it is serious.

[Hemingway's Ghost]

Anyone got an opinion on how The Da Vinci Code compares to Foucault's Pendulum?

Like a pennywhistle and triangle duet playing Happy Birthday To You compares to the Boston Symphony Orchestra performing Beethoven's 9th. TDVC is a good, guilty read, but its characterizations are pathetic, its scholarship ridiculous, its message conjecture of the highest order---and directed, mind you. From the very first paragraph, you know Dan Brown had screenplay in mind, and nothing more---it's as if he had a checklist with every crucial movie cliche and ticked off each item as he wrote it into TDVC. If you take that into consideration, and read with a heavy dose of NaCl, TDVC is a fun, engaging read.

On the other hand, FP is sharp, witty, deep, involving, illuminating, illustrative, evocative, intriguing, and addictive. Umberto Eco is simply brilliant, and his genius shows on every page of FP. This author is simply a treasure.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Anyone got an opinion on how The Da Vinci Code compares to Foucault's Pendulum?

I think the real burning question here is "What does 'Focault's Pendulum' think about "The Da Vinci Code"?

[ASA Vet]

Anyone got an opinion on how The Da Vinci Code compares to Foucault's Pendulum?

"The Fibonacci Chain" is infinitely more unreadable.