A burger to read
From Wynn Wheldon Sir: I’m afraid I must take exception to Lloyd Evans’s defence of The Da Vinci Code (Arts, 28 May). While Dan Brown may well be smarter and better informed than Mr Evans and me, and undoubtedly very much richer, The Da Vinci Code is nevertheless a bad book, and no amount of inverse snobbery is going to stop it being so. Why is Mr Evans unwilling to admit to low taste? I have a penchant for Burger King whoppers, and I am prepared to admit that although they are immensely moreish and popular, they’re not actually all that good.
To be honest, the experience of reading The Da Vinci Code is more like masticating cardboard. I piously chewed my way through to page 100 and there stopped, unable to get through another page. I had to follow it with a Robert B. Parker Spenser novel as a kind of literary Rennie.
Wynn Wheldon
London N6
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