This is the bookwrab podcast. I'm Jeff O'Neill. I'm Rebecca Shinsky.

And Vanessa Diaz is back with us again. Today we gather in robes to walk a cobblestone street

with clues and spacious scientific papers bursting out of our briefcase,

Rebecca and Vanessa, welcome to our discussion of the Secret of Secrets by Dan Brown.

I don't know what you mean about species.

All of the science in the secret of secrets is real, Jeff.

Is real.

So we're going to talk about the Secret of Secrets by Dan Brown. We all have a special place in our heart for Dan Brown. This is a hater-free zone. But having said that, part of

what makes Dan Brown endearing is the foible, is the down brownisms that we're going to get into

here in a minute. So this is how we're going to go. We're going to do some general discussion.

Did we like the book? Spoiler-free stuff. 10, 15 minutes. And then I concocted a little structure.

We're calling the Dan Brown GPA. What GPA does the secret of secrets get according to standard Dan Brown courses?

Courses like setting and locations, the big idea, the bad guys, Langdonalia, the love interest,

and then of course factoids and info drops. If you're looking for something with a little more meat on the bone,

might I suggest zero to well read, which we're also doing? We contain remultitudes here, Rebecca.

We really do. Wait until the Da Vinci Code hits a big anniversary and we do zero to well

read the Da Vinci Code. Does episode two, zero to well read is out today? It is right. As we are

recording, it is out today.

It's Their Eyes for Watching God by Zora Neal Hurston.

And as you are hearing this, the next one up next week will be Vineland by Thomas Pinchin,

upon which the new Leonardo DiCaprio, Paul Thomas Anderson, joint, one battle after another, is based.

Yeah.

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