da vinci code was definetly not a yawm. I have never opened a book to find out the first sentence explaining or defining the purpose of the book. Most books I have liked develop slowy yet at a pace to keep me interested. Da vinci code is an overload of ideas mostly sensational ones and that i feel is its primary weakness. whatever the standard of the language he has used i could not keep the book down once i read the first page. As for conversations with god, it is a wonderful book and a pleasure to read. Each time a passage from it gives me inspiration which i think is its objective. anyways, each to his own.