I'm going to tell you a dark and evil secret that I've been harboring for a long time now: I'm going to buy The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown, and I'm going to read it. I am looking forward to it and I will probably enjoy it. I enjoyed reading the Da Vinci Code, after all. I read it because my Dad loaned it to me after a friend loaned it to him, and Dad reading any book is a big deal. I figured any book that actually managed to hook him was worth at least trying. That was when the Da Vinci Code was really starting to get a lot of buzz, probably right when churches started complaining about it (generating more buzz). I can't really tell you why Da Vinci Code was so popular then, but I can tell you that I read it because someone else recommended it to me and I trusted their opinion.