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Summary: Excellent and very interesting
Review: I'm 16 years old. and I heard about this book a month ago. I thought it was very well researched, it had a lot of evidence to back their hypothesis up. I think they are geniuses! I loved it! it was better than a mistery novel. I couldn't stop reading it!
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Summary: A huge leap from a stable cliff
Review: I was drawn into this book almost immediately and could not put it down. I try to be open-minded and tried to accept what was given me at its merits. The story is incredible and I highly recommend it as a great read. I do have a problem with the fact/conclusion thing, though. Many facts and probabilities were put forth. Some that seemed a little 'out there' were contextualized by the culture of the times they took place in, so I was willing to cut the authors some slack on their suppositions. HOWEVER, it seemed like they would amass facts/probabilities, then take quite large leaps toward conclusions. More than once I found myself asking, "Wait a minute, where did THAT come from?" I would compare it to exhaustively explaining how the Mayans had knowledge of astronomy and then concluding that they MUST have had their own spacecraft. Factual? Well, possibly. There are many interesting points brought up and it does make one wonder. I wouldn't recommend bringing some of them up in casual office discussion or you'll have a blown-first-date/foot-in-mouth flashback. Still, although it's easy to trash the points brought up as being far-fetched and on shaky ground, they really aren't much more implausible than some of the Bible stories many take literally. At least not on a factual basis.
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Summary: It's a great mystery read
Review: By the fourth page of the first chapter I was hooked. Because on this page the authors had written about the 18th century Priest Bigou's parchment that had been discovered inside a hollow column that stood within the village church of the mountain community of Rennes le Chateau. Upon this parchment in Latin was a strange message that obviously requires deciphering. The one item of the message that has intrigued me, is the number 681. So if you like a fantastic mystery that challenges the reader to find the truth, I suggest you read this book. My own subseqent search in this exciting venture led me to 'locate' the number 681 within the Great Pyramid. Once you begin to think upon what the authors offer up as many and varied possible clues as you make your way into the book you will have trouble in putting the book down.
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Summary: Lucid research and fascinating read
Review: Lucid research and fascinating read Excellent book! The research undertaken is accessible and clearly laid out. Take your reading one step beyond this wonderful book and see "THE Autobiography of Jesus of Nazareth and the Missing Years" by Richard G. Patton. Patton's book is the novelised version of the human being that was Jesus. Beside being a riveting read, it supports the researched information in "The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail". Traditional theology is going to have a hard time explaining away all these revelations.
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Summary: Immaculate Notes and Superbly interesting
Review: This was a difficult book to read because you were never sure where the authors were headed and they sometimes never returned to finish earlier points. However, they do provide ample notes to check many of their claims. I give this book 5 stars because of an interesting plot, path and conclusion, as well as the sheer amount of facts which are hard to come by in a single book. I highly recommend this book but advise everyone to read it from front to back. For those who find the claims unbelieveable, I recommend that they do research of their own from the bibliography as opposed to discounting the whole book because of parts.
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Summary: An easy read and a great yarn.
Review: The most fun you can have with the "facts" of history and still keep within the realm of plausability. Baigent, Lincoln et al give new meaning to the phrase 'putting a new spin on a set of old data'. No one can have indesputable proof that the blood line of Jesus survived intact to the present day but wouldn't be fun if it had?
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Summary: Entertaining to the last, factual,not in the least
Review: This is a great book. One hell of an entertaining yarn. But that's all it is. If you like these historic religious quest books, you will eat it this up. However, Baigent and Leigh (I will leave Lincoln out of this critcism) have proven themselves, to knowledgible scholars, unwilling to back up their statements with historical facts. Even a layman can easily poke holes in most of their conclusions, provided one is willing to try. To back up this statement one need go no further than Baigent and Leigh's "The Dead Sea Scroll Deception". The thesis of this work is familar to readers of "Holy Blood, Holy Grail", namely conspiracy and cover up, However as another reviewer has stated, method is explaned, but not motive. This is a fun book to read, but it should never be considered as revisionist history. What it is , is a well written, fanciful yarn. I give it 5 stars for entertainment and 1 for its accuracy. Still if you like historical detective stories you will love this book. I couldn't put it down. Just don't believe all you read.
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Summary: Huh?
Review: What a fabulously cranky book! I was flabbergasted, so I read it compulsively to see what the authors were going to say next. Then when I finished, I thought, "Whew! What was that all about?" I still don't know if I should take it seriously. And I simply do not know how to rate this book. It gets 5 stars for being interesting and 1 star for being believable.
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Summary: SHOCKING AND UNBELIEVEBLY INTERESTING
Review: THIS IS THE BEST BOOK I HAVE EVER READ IN MY LIFE, I LOVE HISTORY AND RELIGIONS! IT'S VERY MYSTERIOUS. IT'S GREAT! I TRUELY BELIEVE IT ALL, AND I'M CONVINCED OF IT. IT'S ABOUT TIME SOMEONE INVESTIGATED THE FOUNDATION OF CHRISTIANITY. EVERY PERSON SHOULD READ IT, AND THE CHRISTIANS SHOULD READ IT MOST. I HOPE THE INVESTIGATIONS KEEP ON.
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Summary: A meticulously written test of the readers emotions
Review: Absolutely amazing! Every few pages I would have to wonder exactly how long it took to write this book. This is absolutely the most well-researched book I have ever opened. True, it does travel on unessecary tangents, and the overall conclusion is unproven, but the authors will be the first to tell you so. This book's purpose is not to change your beliefs, but to tell you what these researchers believe. And that it does well. Even if you don't agree with them, Baigent, Leigh, and Lincoln will surely make you smarter.
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