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'Lynn Picknett... presents the Magdalene in a fresh and disconcerting way.' --Washington Post Book World
'Picknett's book... puts Mary Magdalene back on top of her pedestal.' --Nexus
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I take the point that the author knows her market and writes in a style that would appeal. The problem for me is that her market is at the lowest common denominator.
Some areas are interesting and valid, but the style used by the author serves to undermine many of the assertions she makes. The writer appears as an excitable school child in a hurry to write down as many things as possible, repeatedly, resulting in a random 'hairball' of facts, fictions, opinions etc. The editor needs to re-assess.
Also, the title relating to clues within the 'real Da Vinci Code' is an obvious and needless marketing trick to plunder the rich pickings of the Dan Brown Zeitgeist.
The point of the title made early, that the author asserts that Lucifer is not Satan is fair enough. The rest is just churned out, regurgitated stuff we've seen before in a hundred other books, better written. The introduction makes the point; the rest of the book is fairly unrelated meanderings, some interesting, and some just dull or poorly explosive.
The book goes on to tempt (sic), the reader into believing that Jesus Christ was a murderer, a bisexual, never died on the cross and was a black magician. This may all be true, or not, however, the style and zeal the author employs in using every possible slander of Christ only served to turn me off. Was Christ really Satan? I dunno, and neither (despite herself) does the author.
Obvious, this book is a subjective rant. The author is seemingly incapable of drawing a reasoned and unbiased argument to woo the readers mind and believes that the blunt and subjective style is a better way to get her message across. There is a great sense of irony in that those she rails against the most; the Catholic Church and The Inquisition, used the same stylistic approach as the author of this book.
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The subjective and random style undermines the book and whilst there are some valid points made, the impact is lessened because the passionate/ teenager style of the author made me question whether any of the 'facts' are valid. This is another author on the Dan Brown bandwagon, just poorly written. Better reading is The Serpent Grail by Philip Gardiner.
it makes you think and challenges preconceptions about god and the devil and I think it is well written and well... Read more
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