I like Dan Brown ... however ... one of the most boring, tedious audiobooks I've ever listened to. Were I not stuck in the car on a 12 hour drive I'd have given up by chapter 10. By the time a bit of action enters toward final quarter of story I found myself so irritated by the pedantic and sophomoric premise, I gave up and switched to NPR. Thin plot, no character development; endless and interminable descriptions of places replace plot, dialogue, narrative. Total waste of money.