[Capriole]

Seems to me that lots of others have some sort of agenda in trying in an almost desperate way to tell people how bad they think the book is.

I have no agenda, nothing against genre fiction. I am the furthest thing from a literary snob--heck, I love Janet Ivanovich, Diana Gabaldon, Dick Francis, Robert Parker, and none of them writes great literature. But Brown is just a talent-free hack. Everyone is reading his book only because everyone else is reading the book.

[TheBigB]

I'll admit to have picked it up because I was curious as to what everyone else was reading. That said, I enjoyed it as a lightweight adventure yarn, nothing more. My tastes run more towards Clive Cussler when it comes to fiction.