Back in the 18th century, I was one of a party of eight who suffered a midnight screening of the Da Vinci Code film. I made my feelings perfectly clear upon arriving home from the cinema.
I haven't read the book and don't intend to. But since new year, a brave writer called Tim Footman has been prising the book apart, chapter by chapter, word by word, cliche by cliche, in a effort to analyse why it's been so damn successful.
He has set up a blog especially for the purpose and you can start reading it here. It's refreshing to see someone with a different take on the book, and it's all the more impressive that he has been power-blogging at about a chapter a day.
I'm sure it won't be long before Ben Edson makes it into the best-seller lists. Maybe he should be taking notes...
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