I love these posts! I have run the gamut in my "reading lifetime". Guess I started with whatever I could find, moved to Agatha Christie, then in the time frame when they first came out, I read the "trash", bodice rippers, but soon tired of those (some folks still love them). I read all of Catherine Cookson. Then into Action/Adventure/Spy Thrillers, Detective/Police/Legal Procedurals. You name it. Then...came face to face book groups - - I'm in three. Two "regular" one "mystery". The regular ones have read widely, best sellers, classics, "literary" type books, which have garnered awards, some of which, if not most, have been real duds with our groups. These are predominantly seniors, mostly women although we do have a few men and getting more through word of mouth and the library doing a bit more P/R. We have college graduates, teachers, librarians. Reading is a very "private" thing. I don't knock anyone who reads, whatever the genre may be.
Marjifay, I read Angels and Demons also, but preferred DaVinci Code.
There are, IMHO, worse authors than Dan Brown, and this after all is FICTION! And if we read fiction, then we expect "over the top" incorporated with a lot of "hoo-hah".
Wow, didn't mean to get into an oration here!