Da Vinci's Boredom

So I tried reading Da Vinci's Code. I tried so hard. I got halfway through, then the book had to be returned to the library and I had no quarums doing so. Even just getting halfway through the book only accounted for 4 hours of the timeline in the book. I think it would make a good movie, but a book no. First off the code is way too easy. Maybe that's just the Computer Scientist in me talking since we did so many exercises with the Fibonacci sequence. And the antagonist albino guy just gives me the Igore vibe. Taking orders from a superior, having no real thoughts of his own. Too Frankensteiny for me. Plus since Tom Hanks stars in the movie, I can only imagine the main character as Tom Hanks. I like Tom Hanks as an actor but he does not need to be in my imagination. I give up, I'll go see the movie or wikipedia it to find out the rest.

Instead I traded the book in for "The Penelopiad" by Margaret Atwood. It's a story based on the Odessey told from Penelope's point of view. I know, sounds more boring to you than Davinci's secret code, put it's got plot, character development, murder and non-obvious literary devices. See what IB english has done to me?

And if that gets too heavy I also took out "Wifey" by Judy Blume. She's written about 10 novels for adults and that's one of them. No Fudge in this book. Yes it's chick lit but smart chick lit with actual character development, not shopaholic fairy tale optimism. Although Shopaholic had it's humerous moments, I still felt dumber having read it. The main character learns nothing from her actions as a shopaholic and she gets the guy. Hmmmmm.....is there some sort of societal message for mass consumerism because everything will turn out in the end? Maybe I'm just too logical. I'm definitely too picky with my literature.