Living La Vida Vinci

I've been reading The DaVinci Code mostly out of curiosity. My daughter-in-law loved it. I didn't see any reason to, since I've read Foucault's Pendulum and Holy Blood, Holy Grail and already decided this whole subject is bosh.

But with the movie coming out, and the constant references to it, I thought I should check it out.

So far, I've reached two conclusions:

1. Dan Brown is a hack writer. He writes like a bright middle schooler.

2. Dan Brown isn't as reliable as Wikipedia.

Now, the CSMonitor reports the book has spawned a new genre. It's going to be around awhile.