The "shocking" revelations, assertions, and hypothesis are somewhat intriguing, but take way too long to be explained and presented in the novel.I understand that it takes extensive rhetoric and evidence in order to justify the resulting hypothesis, but there is a ton of filler in this novel that just is not interesting at all.I'm sure it's more fashionable to champion this work over more accessible stories, such as The Da Vinci Code, but I read for pleasure first, insight second. Plowing through this novel was not a labor of love.