I read the DaVinci Code at the urging of several people and found it a very mediocre read. I kept thinking "film treatment" the entire time I was reading it; "who will play this part?" I understand Ron Howard is presently filming the book. I still see people carrying copies of the book around and I can only wonder who would go see the movie when everyone now knows what the solution to the mystery is...?

A question for our OZ friends: Anyone read "Capricornia" by Xavier Herbert? I bought a used copy thru abebooks.com (a great site by the way) because I'm a miserable die-hard Oils fan and their final album was named for the book.

I think that Herbert is a fine writer and that his characters were really well defined though I thought the book was overlong. (I understand he holds the record for the longest novel ever published in the English language) Is this book widely read in Oz? Is it considered a "classic" like "The Grapes of Wrath" in the States? Just curious....