Well, after having thoroughly embarrassed myself when this thread originally popped up by saying I had read "DaVinci Code" when I had, in fact, read another book with "DaVinci" in the title, I am now able to say that, yes, I have read the thing. In fact, I've read three of Dan Brown's books. Am I impressed? Not tremendously. One would think that, considering that "DaVinci Code" is possibly the most successful publishing venture in the history of popular literature, it would be a cut above most thriller fiction. It's not. I read a fair amount of low-brow fiction courtesy of a friend regularly giving me paperbacks by the box-load. If not for the hoopla surrounding it, "DaVinci Code" would be as forgettable as anything else in the box.