Lee; the problem was that I still needed to download the other book, which took for-freaking-ever and hadn't finished when I left for Urbana. :P
Theresa: Hee. But there's "unrealistic", and then there's this. I'm actually not normally a nitpicker except for fun; I'm more capable than most at a healthy suspension of disbelief; and yet Dan Brown's research on this was so bad that parts of it just did not make sense. This is among the worst books I have ever read.