With all the sensationalizing of the code (is it fiction?!, is it fact?!) going on before I read (listened to) the book, I thought it would build to something more. It did have a compelling start and middle but the end was not special for me. Maybe I wanted more shock and scandal. Something that would make a thinking Catholic question themselves (for a brief moment, of course!). Instead I got a boring ol' orgy and one of the corniest audio-reads I've heard in a few years - no fault of Dan Brown, I hope. (Men are not meant to play French girls.)