Speed Read

Well, finally finished. As a good friend of mine said aptly, The DaVinci Code is "irritatingly addictive". With a ridiculous number of chapters (107, including the prologue and epilogue) for a book with proportionally fewer number of pages, and a climax ending most every one of them, the book begs to be read as quickly as possible. It raises interesting possibilities about the background of the Catholic Church and its faith, and the blurring of fact and fiction in the story is spectacular. I found myself using the internet to search for portraits of famous works to see if they coincided with the storyline, and was pleasantly surprised. True, the book may be one giant conspiracy of a story, but it's a good one. And if you haven't read it yet, what are you waiting for?