Worst books ever read (was: Re: Freaks and Geeks LONG and uncoherent ramble

[a_svirn]

 > CJ 
> 
> I once wrote a review of DC that ran something like this: "The book 
hits 
> you with what is undoubtedly it's greatest blunder before you've even 
> opened it. The man's named is Leonardo, please. Vinci was his 
hometown. 
> How can you take seriously a piece of historical fiction whose very 
> title screams out 'Penned by an historical ignoramus!'?"

I was pretty incensed that the man made an ignoramus out of an Oxford 
professor. Teabing managed to confuse Qumran scrolls with Nag Hammadi 
codices, and prattle away on the meanings of Aramean words all the 
while being perfectly oblivious to the fact that Gnostic gospels are 
written in Coptic. Of course, Langdon himself is a Harvard professor, 
and he teaches something like "symbology". Which gives me a poor 
opinion on the Harvard curriculum. 
a_svirn.