I... Gosh. Well. I'm sure there's better-written (and published) criticisms of the book out there, because surely they can't all be written by conservative evangelicals or Very, Very Angry conservative Catholics, but the protestors and the marketing campaign do seem to have polarised this one between them - if you're not out there with a placard, then you have to say it was a fun read and you enjoyed it even if the research wasn't all that special and the writing was dire, etc. At least I'm allowed to hate it based on its literary merits alone. But, still, since when did 'literary merits' get limited to 'ability to construct a sentence', and not 'absence of recurring icky ideology throughout?'