The Da Vinci Code

I came to this book wanting to hate it. I find Dan Brown really smug and pretentious and I don't much care for the fellow at all. However, I did enjoy his book and may therefore consider reading Angels and Demons, or Digital Fortress.

Brown is very good with his suspence, utilising short chapters and cutting short the action or puzzles to flick to a different part of his tale, so this will definately keep you reading. I personally stayed up until 1 o'clock in the morning when I knew I had to be up early the next day reading the thing because I wanted to finish it. For some reason my logic dictated that since the bathroom in our house is closer to my bed than the living room is, it somehow made it ok if I finished reading it in there. Still, sitting on the toilet for no other reason than to read a book does not quite constitute sleep, so what the hell I was thinking, I don't know.

One criticism I did have about the novel, however, is the lack of depth in the characters. When I read the book, I felt tangled in their adventure and driven along by the plot, but not really that I knew the characters that well. This really came to the fore in the rather contrived manner in which one of them died. I believe I let out a long groan at that one.

Overall though, it's a generally good book. If it gets your reading, then it's well worth picking up. Now I'm moving on to Catcher in the Rye, so that's what I'll be talking about next.

Oh yeah, and in other news: I passed my first year exams, I don't have a student loan for next year, due to a tremendous cockup and Azzuri in Alsager sucks.