Way too much speculation being touted as facts but I love the conspiracy thinking.

This book is trash. Of course, I knew that when I picked it up. This begs the question why I read it. There were a few reasons. I first encountered the Priory de Sion in a roleplaying book on the French Revolution. For years, I have always intended to read Holy Blood, Holy Grail.

Now that I have, I find myself disappointed. It is a book written from a tissue of weasel words (“many commentators say”, “although we cannot prove, neither can we disprove”, “if this is true, then”), but that is not its greatest crime. Its greatest crime is that its central conspiracy isn’t especially interesting. There is no sense about why I should care about any of the claims made in the book.

In the end, I had pity on the authors, since the book was fundamentally built on the claims of a French con-artist. In a sense they are among his victims.

Bwahahahaha!

Really interesting and very well-written (so easy to read). The writting style is similar to that of fiction. Entertaining to read, à prendre avec un grain de sel.

But towards chapter 10-ich, the authors just say (concerning Jesus and the Magdalene) something along the line "If it was any other subject, only one conclusion would be possible" before annoncing said conclusion. And honestly, for me, that does not seemed like the only natural conclusion. It feels like a huge jump.

This is the book that started it all - the authors claimed Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code stole their ideas and it is easy to see why. I knew someone who worked with one of the authors, Henry Lincoln, and they certainly believed what they were investigating had a reality. I give this three stars because in the end there is no effective conclusion. It remains a speculation and the secret society of Sion has (as far as I understand it) been debunked as an idea. It remains the best of what has become a small industry of books about secret Christianity usually set in France of Scotland.

What a pain in the butt. This book is like running uphill during an avalanche.

It's schlock. You know it's schlock going in. But it's entertaining schlock. One of my favorites to revisit.

The authors should've checked their so-called "facts" before publishing.