The BBC quotes David Sexton from the Evening Standard: “The movie of The Da Vinci Code has one inestimable advantage over the novel. Utilising the moving picture, it has effectively eliminated most of Dan Brown’s plodding prose.”
(Dan Brown has the distinction of being the only author who has provoked me into flinging a book across the room in sheer annoyance. I was brought up to treat books properly, but this was too much. I bought one of his so-called “thrillers” to read on a cross-country flight, abandoned it after a few chapters, rediscovered it when I got home, and decided to give it the benefit of the doubt. It didn’t deserve it.)