*grin* I can't agree more about that particular author's shortcomings. "The DaVinci Code" is totally a piece of crap, as is every other book of his I've ever read. Predictable, shiny-packaged, badly researched tomes all, with some of the most incredibly stupid self-described "smart people" in them I've ever seen.

Plus they're written like potboiler cliffhangers. : P