Dan Brown - 'The Da Vinci Code'

Just a blurb as I'm nearing the end of this story. At first I was not interested in the dramatic introduction to this story meant to brainwash people into feeling like they were missing out if they didn't buy the book through giving them a feeling of knowing conspiratorial knowledge. It felt like the only reason that Dan Brown thought that he could attract the attention of a large audience is to provide some suspenseful plot, versus the tracking of paper (document) pushing. I am finding it an enjoyable read though so I thank Dan Brown for finding a way to learn about Christianity with a little bit of zeal.
The middle portion of this fictional novel went on and on and on about how the holy grail is a metaphor for the chalice being Mary Magdalene's womb and that many historians and Christians have been willingly in denial that Jesus and Mary were married because this truth would undermine the church's view that men are superior and should, therefore, be in positions of power in the church. The last portion is describing Robert Langdon, Sophie and now Teabing's quest to find the tomb in which Mary and her unborn child (Jesus' son). The solving of the cryptex took me back to my childhood when my mom used to create hunts with similar clues including mirror messages for my Easter hunt.
This book is giving me a growing anticipation to read the online publication of Darwin's letters and journal entries as they will have a plot AND are real. This book is great for entertainment but does not all factual, obviously.