the final verdict

burnedtoast:

Okay, everyone, listen up.

The Da Vinci Code was a shitty book. Terribly, horribly shitty. And no amount of back-and-forth semantics in the house common room will change that, especially if you are ignorant of Umberto Eco when I point out that The Name of the Rose is vastly superior and anyone who doesn’t have sawdust for brains can see it’s the better novel.

All I have to say is: get your hands on a copy of Eco’s Foucault’s Pendulum if you don’t already own one. After that one, it’s even clearer how much of a shitstorm the Da Vinci Code really is. Hell, after the first page even the sawdust brains must acknowledge this. Otherwise, I see no other option than to put them under a strict reading embargo.