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The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail | 
 enlarge | Authors: Richard Leigh, Michael Baigent, Henry Lincoln
Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 17544
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Edition: New Ed
Pages: 614
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 7 x 4.1 x 1.7
ISBN: 0099503093
EAN: 9780099503095
ASIN: 0099503093
Publication Date: September 7, 2006
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 Amusing rubbish July 18, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Consider this: Leigh and Baigent sued Dan Brown and his publishers because The Da Vinci Code was ripping off their ideas of Jesus having been married etc. It seems to me you can only do this when your own book is fiction as well -- and so it is.
I found it a tedious read, and offering no proof that Jesus was ever married. No decent scholar these days would make that claim: there is simply no proof whatsoever, anywhere. The 3 authors decided what the conclusion was going to be and then set out to find the "evidence" to fit their thesis -- guys, this is not how it works.
It baffles me that such total rubbish pretending to be serious research is bought by people.
Semi-Entertaining work of "Fiction" March 8, 2008
Having been only a toddler when this first came out in 1982 I missed out on all the controversy back then. To be honest, having read the book now, I can't see what all the fuss was, and still is, about.
This is pseudo-history, plain and simple. The authors throughout state that this is where the evidence has taken them, even reluctantly. However, one gets the impression that the authors know where they are going from the start, and are making their conclusions fit the evidence. This evidence, it should be noted, includes hypotheses that later on become facts. Similarly, questions which they pose themselves, and are rarely answered, later on become a basis for further "facts" upon which to build their hypotheses.
This is mildly entertaining though, hence the three stars. The bits about freemasonry, grail romances and the links, however tenuous, between the so-called Grand Masters of the Priory of Sion, is pretty mundane reading. The book only gets interesting, for me, when it looks in to the gospels, the last section of the book.
As we now know, the Priory of Sion, with its "Dossiers Secrets" was a hoax, and it is apparent that the authors fell for it.
In conclusion I'd recommend it to anyone interested in this sort of topic, but take it with a pinch of salt.
Mind boggling - until you realise it was all a hoax March 5, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I read this book in the early 90's when I was a student and it's adventurous musings completely blew me away.
UNFORTUNATELY...
BBC2's Chronicle, if memory serves the programme the author's worked on when they unearthed the books 'mysteries' and hit the big time, did a follow up programme years later and discovered that Baigent, Leigh and Lincoln (and Chronicle for that matter) had been had big time. The creepy little French bloke claiming to lead the Prieure De Sion (or however it's spelt) - and therefore by extension was a blood relative of Jesus Christ himself - was actually a professional con man who saw Baigent and Leigh coming a mile off and fed them just enough information to string them along for years!!!
Baigent and Leigh refused to accept the evidence (and well they might because it made them look like complete pratts, not to mention threatening their cash cow) but the evidence was pretty damning. As for all their subsequent speculations concerning the Dead Sea scrolls and their radical reinterpretations of the bible, that mostly turned out to be the result of inept research combined with three extremely vivid imaginations.
Oh well, it was fun while it lasted! And at least they made a lot more money out of it than the conman!!!
 This is where it all starts..The Original September 23, 2007
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is where it all started for me... 10 years and over 140 books later this book is still the best and the one i refer back to as the information contained is excellent.
What a story, whether true, false, fiction or non, it grips you from page 1 to the very end in a mystery that is so compelling and has such wide reaching implications you simply can not put it down.
I only wish the 3 authors had produced more work together.
Gary May
Author: SELLING: Powerful New Strategies for Sales Success
www.garymay.co.uk
Rubbish but a whole heap of fun September 9, 2007
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
I have to agree with 'gingerburn' and his progression from excitement to disillusion over 3 readings of the book. However, I think it deserves 3 stars because it IS fun to read the first time and, if nothing else, provokes thought. I was still a practising Catholic when I first read the book (I was about 16 or 17 I think) and it started the long process of questioning that culminated in me contentedly deciding I am an atheist. Disregard all the hooey about the descendants of Jesus (who cares?!) and concentrate on the details of how the early Christian church manipulated its own records and broadcast the correct propaganda to ensure it survived with a creditable future. That was an eye opener and it launched me into reading more....
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