Overreaction. That is what many critics of Dan Brown are showing over his novel, The Da Vinci Code. Dan Brown is a writer. He makes a living out of his stories and surely everybody knows that every story writer’s dream is for his piece to become a bestseller.

A novel has the making of a bestseller if it has either of two c’s: creativity and controversy. Fortunately for Dan Brown, his The Da Vinci Code has both. He may not have the wittiest creativity as a writer but his novel no less has it. What with an innocent painting like Mona Lisa and the humble story of Mary Magdalene become important conduits to the complex plot of a story? If that’s not called creativity, I don’t know what is.

But Dan Brown made really sure his story would be a good buy. He added controversy to his masterpiece and that addition is another proof of his creativity. He started his book with a claim for FACT, a ploy which was to make the book a cut over the others and it paid off.

Whether you’re reading his story objectively or not, the author may not care so much. In fact, the more people overreact to his Code, the more his story become a masterpiece and that’s enough to make Brown feel like the satiated Robert Langdon after he discovered the Sangreal.