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People read it and say "It's a novel but all the church stuff is true,"

Oh, my gosh, where you eavesdropping on my phone call with my friend? LOL, you've just quoted her verbatim! And her 4 sisters have all read it and agree. They bought it in bulk and have given many copies as gifts to friends and family. Wow, even the NYTimes gets it.

He not only gets his religion wrong, he gets his art and his history wrong--a trifecta!

But he says it with a wink-wink. He seems to be saying in some of his interviews, "It's fiction, but...". See my #55. It is a kind of assault. The sad part, as a Catholic, is the people who will enjoy it and spread it's story line as 'truth', to the confusion of others. My friend has already begun.

Yes, and that's my only problem with this. What do I care if people read trash? I don't, not one bit--I've read, written and sold plenty of trash! :) That's completely beside the point; the point is the dissemination of lies. If Brown just claimed to have made all this stuff up and laughed it off, the book wouldn't have sold nearly as much, because the articles that are written about it are not about the potboiler aspects, which are dismissed in all these pieces; they're about the "facts" in the book.

I'm anti-stupidity, and this book puts more lies into the world.