I have actually started reading the Vinci Code by Dan Brown. To celebrate this and my recent visit to the Rosslyn Chapel near Edinburgh, I have set a new lies category. The book doesn’t seem so bad so far after one chapter, notwithstanding some of the linguistic cricisms pointed out by Language Log.

Oh, it’s *pony*. You just wait. Given that the subject is something you know a bit about, you will come out the other end wishing Dan Brown had not bothered…
I’m trying to at least give it a chance. After a few more chapters I’m becoming less inclined to, but I am trying.
Don’t say I didn’t warn you.
But I had to.