Not me receiving it but I bought my Dad “The Da Vinci Code” one year cos I’d heard good things about it. Yikes. I borrowed a copy off a friend of mine a year later and it was ATROCIOUS. I’ll never get over the embarrassment.

Same, and I usually have very vivid pictures in my head of locations / houses.

Maybe it’s intentional so that i don’t get too disappointed if there ends up being a movie / tv adaptation or