1) I was forced to listen to the audiobook, in the car, the entire way back driving home from Rawlins. I was exhausted after a 12 hour workday, outside, in the middle of sweltering summer heat. On top of that, it was my birthday, and I had to endure a four-hour drive to be able to celebrate it. That shitty audiobook was just the icing on the worst birthday cake ever.

2) It's just such a cornball story. Played-out "secret society" nonsense, retarded Michael Bay-like doomsday weapons, and an introduction that's basically copy/pasted from The Da Vinci Code.

3) I find pretty much all "high-tech conspiracy theory" fiction to be pretty lame, and this book epitomizes everything I don't like about the genre.

you should read his other 2 books. i thought they were so much better

Dan Brown is feasting on your tonsils in his mansion.

Three others, actually, with a new one coming out this year.

Digital Fortress, 1998
Angels & Demons, 2000
Deception Point, 2001
The Da Vinci Code, 2003

The Solomon Key, will possibly be published in 2008