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I read the Da Vinci Code a week ago today. Despite it's total lack of characters and terrible writing style, I enjoyed the book and thought that some of the stuff in it was worth thinking about. I espeically liked figuring out things way before Langdon did.
I justified the terrible style to myself by this: People don't read essays.
Brown obviously enjoys researching, and research generally leads to essays. The problem is that people don't read essays and essays demand truth. If you present your ideas in the form of a fiction, you remove the need to use proper citations, definitive statements and the claim of truth.
And while I don't know if I buy the whole Jesus and Mary Magdalene thing, but I do think that there's a lot of truth in the fact that Christianity stole a lot from paganism in order to supress it. My personal research has lead me to that conclusion.
Speaking of conclusions, yes it sucked, but at least it ended better than Angels and Demons. If we're going with my essay theory, I can't blame Brown. I suck at conclusions too.
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