The Da Vinci Code Reading Dan Brown's the Da Vinci Code. It's an interesting book. Not brilliant literature. A reliance on unnecessary adjectives. A lot of predictable sentences in italics. I don't know if there's a lot of fact behind it, but it's an intriguing idea that there are forces in the Catholic Church that seek to erase substantial parts of the early days of the church. I won't give more than that away. It brings back memories of worries about Opus Dei's shadowy operations -- they have spies who report on anything unconventional. At uni, I went to a very progressive student church that was in constant fear of espionage by these conversative hypocrites. It's very satisfying, therefore, to see them so maligned.