Write-up: ‘Da Vinci’ exceeds literary license

The Detroit News (of all things) has provided this concise commentary on Dan Brown’s supposed fiction-writing-rule-breaking with da Da Vinci Code novel. Apparently there are explicit, mostly-unwritten rules about fiction writing, but, that irony aside, check out http://del.icio.us/schellack/DaVinciCode for the link to the article. I appreciate the conciseness, and if you have not yet heard that Mr. Brown’s book may in fact lack historical veracity,then you should read this.

[added 5.19.06, 11:51] So the movie comes out/came out today and isn’t receiving very good reviews: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/da_vinci_code/