a great tangle of information that not even the great architect of the universe can sort out. it seems that sir l. and the redoubtable nick de vere have parted ways. i love to read nick de v's book if only for all the delightful names he has for those of us of the tinker nobility, et al. the rabble. the hoi-polloi, the mob, the great unwashed, those of us not of the elfin bludd. oh well. ( )

Author does a very thorough job of compiling the results of his research from many historical sources, including statuary, tomb paintings, and historic places, to propose a theory that Jesus Christ was married and left descendants. ( )

Validated many of the casual thoughts I'd had in my lifetime.

Yeah, whatever. I had the same problem with this book that I've had with others of this ilk. A lot of assumptions are made, from which MORE conclusions are drawn. A LOT of history just isn't accounted for. The idea behind the book is intriguing, but it really can't be proved. ( )

Basically a new version of Holy Blood, Holy Grail. To make it new, they talk more about the Dead Sea Scrolls and throw in some Celtic stuff, and lastly make a stupidly silly claim that some Belgian guy is the true King of Scotland. Then let's make up cool chivalric titles and give them to ourselves and friends. Yeah! Lastly, the footnotes and sources are great, but the sources aren't properly analyzed. Some are just bunk. ( )