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Huh, no! I decided to read this "book" after reading the wildly popular THE DA VINCI CODE, wondering what the fuss was all about. I'm open to all sorts of ideas and concepts, no matter how wild they are. But I'm not open to badly researched and written books. And HOLY BLOOD HOLY GRAIL is one of the worst excuses for a book that I have ever read in my entire life. It's hard to believe it became such a bestseller 20 years ago. Let me just quote a few lines from the book: From page 114: "This, of course, was only speculative hypothesis, with no documentary confirmation." From page 115: " This cannot be proved, but neither can it be dismissed out of hand." From page 116: "On the basis of these connections we had formulated a tentative hypothesis." I gave up on the book after reading those three lines on three successive pages. The pattern of this book is totally infuriating. The authors keep writing about this and that and have absolutely no proof for anything. They even keep on repeating that they have no concrete proof for anything but, like the quote from page 115, that even though all of this can't be proven, they keep on delving in their fanciful theories because those theories cannot be dismissed outright. Well, with such a flimsy raison d'etre for a book, I could easily write a book on the existence of Santa Claus, not based on actual proof that Santa Claus exists but because no one has proof that Santa Claus DOESN'T exist. I wish I didn't spend money on this "book". I'm giving 2 stars only because part of the background history they write about is interesting stuff but once they start imagining that "this and that" is like "this and that" because of their "this and that" minds, well, the whole book becomes a pointless, meandering fantasy. I have better things to do than waste my time on this "book". Like clipping my toenails.