Now sales of this book are approaching 50 million sales. At $20 each, that’s about a billion dollars in sales. One billion dollars. People can barely use the bathroom, but we spent a billion dollars on this book. This should immediately suggest that this is a must-read novel, creating an effect similar to that seen on a rolling rock. Once the rock rolls hard enough and accumulates enough crushed people on its bottom, its mass increases, attracting even more people. Long story short, logically speaking for you physicists, if Simple Plan = Sold, then Dan Brown = Sold X 100.

At Costco the other day this Dan Brown (who “buys” the road now magically has 4 books, all of them best sellers) got a whole table to himself just for his books of paraphernalia and his 6 versions of “The Da Vinci Code “. “The last time Costco dedicated an entire table to something was when they had sausage roll samples. And they were really good sausage rolls. Okay, back to the book. After all, that’s what it is.

Or is that it? Confusingly enough, new editions of “Da Vinci” have “Now a full-length movie” on the cover, starring the raucous Tom Hanks as Robert Langdon, who “buys” the road is the main character. (“Buy” the way, saying “buy” instead of “for” never gets old, especially for me.) Now this may not seem confusing at first, but imagine, if you like, the following scenario:

Cut scene to James Thompson, or “Jimmy” Thompson.

“Hey! The Da Vinci Code! Very good! Now in 37 languages ​​in case I decide to go to the United Arab Emirates I can still read it! But wait… Movie… now… book… Which was the first, I don’t even know!

62 years later, at the age of 89, Jimmy Thompson died of cardiac arrest because he hadn’t exercised for 37 years. Do you see a connection? Forward.

The book itself could be condensed into about 20 pages of pretty interesting content, where Brown reveals all sorts of blasphemous statements about Christianity that I won’t reveal here as it would spoil the 80 or so filler chapters. People seem so perplexed and engrossed with this “surprising” viewpoint or interpretation of various artifacts of History (such as Da Vinci’s paintings) that they fail to realize that this is a poorly written book. If you like Tom Clancy and Stephen King, hope you like Dan Brown because he’s the exact same guy. The kind you can produce in about 6 weeks, with no thought (other than research), no social commentary, no character development, etc. The episode spins faster than a “24” episode, though it’s a good show and it’s predictable in its unpredictability…meaning you can predict what’s going to happen based on what you feel deep down, which should never happen .

And then, to top it off, as if our attention spans weren’t short enough, he gives us one of those “really not finished” endings we all hate because we secretly realize Brown couldn’t think of a way to end. this epic novel. Speaking of the end, The End. Wow, and without an image. I haven’t realized this yet. But I can BOLD things, but it seems like more effort than it’s worth.