the da vinci cloud

my roomie's been reading the da vinci code and he was so enthralled by it that he went on till 3 yesterday morning and had to re-read some of the stuff for he hadnt quite read them; or something like that. the book, i must agree, is quite good but i wonder whether its the fast pace alone thats grabbed his interest. to be honest i was quite impressed by the amount of church-bashing dan brown (and his publishers) was willing to dish out in a book, thats after all meant to sell and make money. but they seem to have pulled it off quite nicely. what exactly is it about the church, as an institute, that makes people wanna bash it? they are arguably the most successful religious business and probably the largest organized charity. maybe the anti-church thing is similar to the anti-microsoft thing in the sense that what they offer is not "open" to all. back to the book. well there's nothing much to be told about the book either except that everybody loves a conspiracy. somehow we never get tired of the david-goliath thing, whatever form its presented in. i wonder why people dont write books about how goliath wipes out david and sticks his head up in a pike with a graland made of his entrails as a warning to others who might wanna try ;-). now that would be interesting. but again it wouldnt be a story i guess...