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Summary: Hilarious - an anarchist text book disguised as xian history
Review: I still read it every now and then, just for a good laugh. I think it has an excellent thought provoking hypothesis and may well be closer to the truth than other current ideas about christ. People complain about the writing, which is average at best, but it was never intended to be high literature.
Read it and enjoy . . .
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Summary: ugh
Review: The book has a very creative premise, which offers all kinds of possibilities, but Eccarius' writing style (if it can be called that) seriously undermines any chance this book had at being good. One line that struck me as especially bad came when a group of male anarchists were standing around, "calculating, subconsciously, the probability of getting into their (the female anarchists') respective pants. In a nice manner, of course, fully respective of their humanity." Eccarius' underwhelming talent pretty much wipes out any possibility this book had of being taken seriously. This is a shame, because, as I said, he starts with a great premise.
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Summary: An interesting idea executed by an incompetent writer
Review: This is a fascinating idea, written in the style of the religious pamphlets people hand out on subways. The grand conspiracy of vampires is entertaining, but the book suffers from poor proofreading, poor characterization, a disjointed plot and absolutely awful writing. Had the author teamed up with another, more talented, writer, and refrained from inserting all the left-wing and anarchist philosophy, this might deserve comparison to the Illuminatus! Trilogy.
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