[Grendel9]

Funny. Some of those other spoofy books sound a bit intriguing, too! But I just like historical fiction.

[Uncle Fud]

I would like to read "The Asti Spumante Code" but it does not look as if it's available stateside.

[Jack of all Trades]

Perhaps a "Ghost in the Machine Code" - random pieces of the secret of the universe are encrypted in code fragments littered about the world embedded in game boxes, TV remotes, motor controllers, etc.

</geek tangent mode>

[TheBigB]

Neither of us had read the book, but that didn't stop us forming strong opinions about it. It was enough to see it at the top of the bestseller lists every week to know that we didn't much like it.

Couple of geniuses, to be sure.

[Gefreiter]

I read it, when I was on painkillers and literally could not get out of bed.

I thought it was crap. The concept is fun and interesting, but the means by which the characters interact, escape from, and reunite with each other are ridiculously improbable.

One bit of action that set me on edge can be distilled down to: "Crap, we have to get out of France, but every cop in the country is looking for us. If we only had a private jet...oh wait, we do!"

There's alot of stuff like that. It read like a film script. Which, as it happens, it sort of was.