I read The Lost Symbol....all the strengths and weaknesses of the Da Vinci Code.....basically the same plot. Still worth it when it comes out in paperback.

Also read "Speech-less" by that speechwriter who worked for G.W. Bush. It is no where nearly as harh as its critics claimed, and has good and bad things to say about 43. What ssurprised me is that about two thirds of the book is about his work in the Congress (he has nothing nice to say about Chuck Schumer, John McCain, Nancy Pelosi, John Kerry, and a host of others). Then he goes to work for Rumsfeld, who he claims was the nicest man who ever lived since Jesus, and was a "fall guy" for Iraq. Then on to the White House.