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His characters are all paper thin puppets being jerked around by the circumstances of the plot, which is the only thing he gives a shit about, his clever little puzzle-box plots. While I admit to finding one or two of the puzzles in Da Vinci Code intriguing, I was constantly frustrated by the way he dealt underhandedly with his characters, switching them back and forth at will, artificially delaying their ability to solve one of his puzzles purely to create suspense.
Basically, he lacks integrity in the way he presents his characters, who are all one-dimensional glyphs anyway. I can appreciate a popcorn book as well as the next reader, but I want it to at least not insult my intelligence, even if it has nothing else to tell me.
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