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Well what's point of going through all the trouble though sophie doesn't know about her grandmother but her grandmother do know about her and easily reach and clear things up

the less people who know a secret the less likely is it to be found out - in order to protect sophie and her brother, the less people who knew the better

Dee wrote: "the less people who know a secret the less likely is it to be found out - in order to protect sophie and her brother, the less people who knew the better"

Well yes that be the point but now involving Robert Langton and his back stabbing friend a couple of people know as well one of which is dedicated to make that knowledge public, otherwise his grandmother could have located Sophie quietly its not that when they started living separately she lost her memory of there time together as well

but the albino dude had already tortured people found out the information, so enough people knew the secret by that stage that langdon who had a background in that kind of stuff (which is why he was contact IIRC) and no one could know it was his friend that was the jacked up person - I mean, who would suspect a disabled guy of mastermining that?

Listen, the book sucked, lets leave it at that.

Dee wrote: "but the albino dude had already tortured people found out the information, so enough people knew the secret by that stage that langdon who had a background in that kind of stuff (which is why he wa..."

yeh true but all the albino guy got was the false information, all the lead he got was from Sophie and Langton which he wouldn't have got if Sophie wouldn't set out to find her grandmother

Michael wrote: "Listen, the book sucked, lets leave it at that."

Truly spoken or more correctly written

I thought it was an enjoyable read. And a good plotline.
I thoroughly enjoyed it.

I thought the book totally fell apart at the end - after all that - uh, agony? - everything just sort of went down the drain at the end with no reasonable explanation for all of the fuss. A good premise but no solution, I mean decades, centuries of fury - signifying what? Looked like nothing at the end.

to me this book was a less funny episode of scooby-doo.

Michael wrote: "Listen, the book sucked, lets leave it at that."

That really is all that needs saying about this book

Not a great book and an even worse movie. How can you have a book explaining the church playing down the importance of women in history and how terrible it is and then have a movie which takes all the best lines from the female lead and give them to the male lead.

Ok - the way I see Dan Brown's books (I've read and enjoyed all 5 of the books he has out) is that they are always about some ridiculous legend that may perhaps be true in part, and the characters have to go to some extrordinary length to figure out the "truth" of the legend. All his books have fact mingled with TONS of ridiculous extremes that are barely possible and extremely unlikely.

Regardless of the absurd written into his books I still enjoy them. I take them as fiction books. I like fantasy, and that is the way I read them. Like the fictional adventure that they are.

Your concern seems to mainly be the fact that the conflict in the plot could have been avoided by a simple choice of Sophie's grandmother. The problem is, without conflict, the book is pointless. Yes, it seems ridiculous that all these absurd horrors and various crazy plot twists occured when it all could have been avoided, but how interesting would the book have been if it had just been a story of a grandmother telling her granddaughter that she was the descendant of Jesus? Boring.

Fiction novels require conflict and the more complicated the more interesting (usually) the plot. For instance, the conflict in The Lord of The Rings could have been avoided if Gandalf had just put the ring in an envelop and asked an eagle to drop it off in Mount Doom. But the story wouldn't have had any depth or purpose if such a simple solution had gone down!

While I agree that Dan Brown's plots are wild and crazy, I suggest that most books can be put under the same scrutiny. Most plots could be avoided if some of the characters had just been a little smarter in the beginning. The problem is that if the characters already know how to solve their problems, there really is no point or fascination in reading about it.