The Da Vinci Code

A friend of my mom's leant the book to her, so I thought I'd read it while it was in the house and see what all the fuss is about. It was...well, it just was. It had some interesting themes that the author beat into your skull over and over and over again. This is the curse of being someone who pays attention to things - it can sometimes to lead to getting something the first time and then having to put up with the mindless repeating put in to catch the attention of everyone else. At least, that's how I reacted to it. Perhaps if I had read it over a longer span of time I wouldn't have noticed the repetition so much, but I read the vast majority of the book in one long 7-hour stretch so I’d be done before it needed to be returned to its owner.

The book didn't make my eyes bleed or anything, but I'm not going to recommend it to all of my friends either. I'm certainly not going to take all of the conspiracy stuff as fact, any more than I'm going to take the contents of the bible as fact. However, it's hardly the first thing I've read that's talked about the church warping symbols for its own agenda, so I'm willing to entertain the possibility that at least some of this stuff could be true. It certainly didn't improve my view of organized religion. But, as I've said before, I think that religion is a poor subsititute for faith.