Steyn on The Da Vinci Code

I hope this is my only post on this overblown controvery, but I like both the substance and the style with which Mark Steyn roasts Da Vinci code author Dan Brown.

It's a good rule in this line of work to respect a hit. But golly, The Da Vinci Code makes it hard. At the start of the book, Dan Brown pledges, "All descriptions of artwork, architecture, documents and secret rituals in this novel are accurate." It's everything else that's hokum, beginning with the title, whose false tinkle testifies to Brown's penchant for weirdly inauthentic historicity. Referring to "Leonardo da Vinci" as "da Vinci" is like listing Lawrence of Arabia in the phone book as "Of Arabia, Mr. L," or those computer-generated letters that write to the Duke of Wellington as "Dear Mr. Duke, you may already have won!"....

You can check out the rest of his essay at Macleans.ca.
(Hat tip: filmchat)