The first and only other time I've read this book, best seller in 2003, was only a couple of years after it came out. It was recommended by my mother as a light, fun read, but being the younger, slightly more impressionable reader that I was, I couldn't believe what I had in my hands. How is this not setting the world on fire? Dan Brown has unlocked a two-millennium old secret!
Well, I'm older and wiser now, of course, and so I recognize that it's easy to posit sensational theories about unverifiable historical events. Let's just put all of that aside.
What hasn't changed is that Brown is great at writing that makes you keep reading. Every chapter ends with a hook, and sometimes those chapters are a page and half long so you don't have much time to think before you launch forwards.
It's a much better book than a movie, to be sure.
Oh, and be careful about including any in-the-moment astounding statistics, such as the incredible 500MB/sec download speed that Brown wows us with. It's guaranteed to not age well.
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