I've never read the DaVinci Code, Angels and Demons, or anything else this man has written... And yet he still follows me everywhere! All through The Code Years, I avoided talking about it, but no! Water polo teammates, English classes, even my father (who doesn't read anything but computer manuals) talked incessantly about the damn book. I have absolutely no interest in reading it. I don't know why, otherwise I'd be able to explain, in any case, after The Code Years, Angels and Demons came out. Then it was: water polo teammates, English classes, my father, my mother, my cousin who came to vist from Australia.... all of THEM chasing me around with their ceaseless rambling and raving (u c wut ai did dere?) And I still had no interest. Finally the hype died down and I thought I'd FINALLY lived Dan Brown down, but I was wrong. Now my email is chasing me with Dan Brown crap. Apparently he has a new book coming out... and Barnes and Noble wants to tell me all about it because somehow, I've purchased books that are similar................. I sincerely doubt it. Unless you count Dan Brown books as actual history... Barnes and Noble must be dumb.

So this is a message to Dan Brown: stop following me please. I don't appreciate it very much. I mean no disrespect to you, because you see, I think you gave historical fiction a new twist. And that's rather wonderful. But I still don't want to read your books. Sorry.