review: the da vinci code

[rone]

It's easy to dismiss this book as "Foucault's Pendulum" for dummies, but despite what i consider a boilerplate thriller plot and predictable turns and twists, it's still entertaining because of all the wacky facts about Templars, da Vinci, and the Louvre. On a scale of:

1 - Buy the hardcover
2 - Wait for the paperback
3 - Find the paperback used
4 - Borrow it from the library
5 - Don't bother
6 - Burn the book

... i give it a 4.

Comments

[sunburn.livejournal.com]

I don't get your scale, exactly. It seems to me that that's a scale of how much you want to own the book, or maybe how much you want to credit the author, but basically a cost/benefit breakdown.

If it was more a matter of how long should you wait before reading it, borrowing it from the library could go between 1 and 2. Although now that it's out in paperback, it's better to get the paperback (new or used) than to borrow from the library, because at least you won't have to haul a hardcover around with you. (It's a fast enough read that the library's 3-week loan and huge hold list won't be issues by themselves.)

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

I don't get your scale, exactly. It seems to me that that's a scale of how much you want to own the book, or maybe how much you want to credit the author, but basically a cost/benefit breakdown.

It seems to me that you get my scale just fine.