"I never knew all that stuff!" they all excitedly told me in one way or another.
I'm not particularly religious or anti-religious, so I started reading it. I got through about fifty pages, but I felt like I was reading a bad novelization of a Scooby Doo episode.
I have not read it. I asked my priest - who did read most of it - if it was worth my time. He said no. He said the "historical background" is basically bogus and the author has events and years out of place.