DaVinci Code is recommended reading. I watched movie first, then read Angel & Demons and am about to finish DaVinci code. I was disappointed with movie as I was with Harry Potter movie. However, it is understandable that they cannot cram everything in two-three hours movie that's in the book. I would say Angel & Demons is far better than DaVinci Code in terms of plot. It just held my breath after I completed about half of the book and didn't let me put down before I finished it. I would say DaVinci Code also is hard to put down however you read this book more for informatioin than plot by itself. The knowledge which you can get from book about why church don't want to admit that the Jesus had wife and kids is that that's the very foundation of church whic claimed Jesus was divine not like any other human. The church also demeaninzed sex between male and female, and professed priest to practice celibacy to become purer. If this information is true that Jesus actually have bloodline that can shake the chritianity's principle. So, even if it doesn't matter for other religion to have gods like being a other human, for christianity it seems otherwise. It was interesting to know from the book that sex was taken as sacred act by ancient cults. The way it describes just opens a new angle how you think about sex to those who didn't know about it.