Heh heh. I actually finished it last night. I think the main thing about that book is, it is a great idea for a novel, excecuted with mediocrity. I get the feeling that the movie will be better than the book, given Brown's weakness when it comes to basic storytelling, and his bad ear for dialogue. On the other hand, it had a lot of elements that are neat, like ciphers, art, buried treasure, etc. A reviewer at Amazon described it as "Foucault's Pendulum for dummies," which I tend to agree with, although I would add that Eco's work tends to be too dry. Somewhere between Foucault's Pendulum and The Da Vinci Code lies loveable work of fiction.