The Da Vinci Code - The book of the year at the British Book Awards

The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown is a poorly written mediocre thriller with paper-thin characters. It also represents an atomic explosion of anti-Catholic bigotry - which appears to be the book's major purpose.

Fifty years ago, no self-respecting writer would have put such vile transparent bigotry onto the market. The historical ignorance and the distortion of what facts do appear in the book would have made the writer a laughing stock. The sales success of Brown's book is yet another demonstration of just how far Western Civilsation has sunk.

Now we have Hollywood rushing to put this poison to film. Do Ron Howard (director) and Tom Hanks (Langdon, no doubt) really think they are doing themselves a service by lining up behind the campaign against Western Civilization. Hanks played the major role in the film Saving Private Ryan. He should be reminded that the setting for that story was a World War caused by the Nazis' campaign of historical distortion and hatred of those deviating from that distortion.