It had been 10 years since I had read a book of any sort until last week when my girlfriend handed me The Da Vinci Code. I sat up all night reading it, and loved it. So, instead of sleeping I had to go buy the first book in that "series"(for lack of a better word) Angels and Demons. Loved that book too.
One thing I noticed though.. it felt like I was reading a Mad-Libs book that had been filled in by two different people. If I had read one book and not the other I would have considered one of them to be the best book of all time - now i'm just kind of disappointed, so I quit reading again in order to spend more times browsing forums!