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I loved this story! It’s got everything; murder, retribution, justice, family humor, a hot-rod that talks, the key to black-holes, a shoe-horn that talks, loss of innocence, innocence regained, a map to the louvre, camping descriptions, erotic passages, an infant Hitler you’ll grow to love, a dancing surgeon, a talking whale, a talking button, a talking Pope, a franco-philes tour of Paris in the 20’s, a list of ingredients, clichéd metaphors strung together like nobody’s business, an indictment of the military-industrial complex, an old woman with a secret (she’s really a man), and 5 more things I’ve forgotten. Okay, so it doesn’t have it all. But it has 27 things and that’s a lot!
actually i don't really like this book at all. it was too funny unintentionally. gramps just won't let sophie play with her dolls, she has to finish today's jumble first. suspicious product placement...range rover equipped with the finest leather seats, onstar navigational system, custom dvd player on each headrest, goodyear all-terrain tires, and a 15 speaker bose stereo system...what? and the hokey theory needed more hokey theories to keep it interesting; the dead horse was beaten severly throughout the second half.
maybe it's one of those "good bad books" (i can vouch for the "bad" element). but dan brown doesn't seem to be in on the joke. then again, he's bloody rich now.
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