The Da Vinci Code

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

As for staying away from something tremendously popular if you've missed the first wave, I think that is a recipe for folly. While it's all too often that uber popular things are that way for no decernable reason, a great many of them are ultra-popular for good cause.

If you didn't see Star Wars in '77, should you stay away from it forever? Never listen to the Beatles if you were born after the 60's? As for a librarian missing out on a BOOK that can't get red-hotter - - well, I'm flabbergasted!

Aww, I thought that if anyone would understand my irrational stubbornness, it'd be you.

If the book was a sci-fi/fantasy story, I'd be all over it. Here's my big secret - I really don't care to read about Christianity, conspiracy or fictionalized or whatever.

My other big secret is that I hate mysteries. I just read Bad Twin, the LOST tie-in book, and it was a decently well-written detective story. It reminded me how much I dislike the end of mystery stories, however thrilling. There's always a lead up to the big showdown, then someone dies or is injured, and then there's the last scene where they tell us whodunit. I have always found the expository nature of the endings to be total letdowns.

My brain during the end of a mystery. "Oh, so it was that guy the whole time. Ok, great."