[Kenny Bunk]

I read this book.

Exciting? Not exactly.

It is a monument to poor editing, lousy grammar, and just all around bad writing. When the plagiarism suit was announced, I immediately understood. This work is a ridiculous patchwork of others' ideas.

I'll give the devil his due. The advertising and publicity were brilliant. Christian-bashing crap, which is what I am going to beat out of this jackanapes should our paths ever cross.

[Antoninus]

The advertising and publicity were brilliant.

100% correct. The ad and publicity industry, particularly in the NY publishing world, also loves a good Catholic-basher. This book was tailor-made for them. I'm sure a lot of extra work was done gratis for this one.

[razorback-bert]

I listened to it while making a real long commute, it didn't improve with someone reading it to me.

Outside the idea of a really royal family, the plot sounds like a action movie script. I could see Tom Cruise along with some new hottie and a lovable character actor, posing in famous European landmarks.