The Da Vinci Code - not the movie

21st May 2006 with 15 Comments

In response to yesterdays post, Debi Alper brought to my attention the fact that Dan Brown has sold a lot more books than the rest of us put together:
I’m not sure if this should make us despair or not, but I do think we have to be aware of what people out there want . [...]

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