The Da Vinci Code

Just finished The Da Vinci Code on my lunch hour. So now I've removed myself from another cultural stigma, as I've joined the 40 million or so who have read it (or at least bought it).

It is was certainly a fun read, a beach read, though I did not read it at the beach. It was seemingly well-researched (I've been looking elsewhere to see what is true and not true about it) but at times clunky and amateurish in its presentation, with lines I would have expected in a Hardy Boys book. But, as I read the conclusion, I was completely absorbed in the book, and enjoyed the aspect of puzzles and riddles. I will have to see the film to see what changes were made, as I heard there were some to appease the protests of the Catholic Church.