[Darth Sidious]

BTW, I read Holy Blood, Holy Grail five years ago. Some stuff in that would be downright disturbing to a Christian new to the faith (as I was at the time) but for another more mature, there's some interesting evidence/speculation to be found.

Studied it very in-depth on and off for about three years and my hunch is this: the Merovingians/Plantards/St. Claires are not the descendants of Christ, but there's sure as heck something amiss going on.

[Jeremy_Bentham]

I chuckled a bit, when I read your first post. I remember reading that book when I was in high school. I tried to read some their other works, but never got around to it.

It was interesting though.

[Dr. Frank fan]

I read it only about a year ago, it's the kind of thing I find irresistible even though I take it all with about a hundred grains of salt :)

All I remember was that I was really into it for the first part of the book, and then everything started to unravel, and by the end I walked away with the impression that it was implicitly a story about these three naively enthusiastic guys who were duped, by some loser (Plantard) living in a run-down flat, into publicizing his delusion of grandeur, or some fanciful made-up bedtime story his senile grand-mere once told him about his supposed "bloodline", or whatever.

That's not to say I think there's not "something to" all of the mysteries/secret societies/weird stuff the authors touch on in their story, though (I mean how could there not be, given the sheer scope of all the things they link together :). Just that in the end the picture seemed pretty clear: Plantard files some document/transcript with the Paris Bibliotheque (or whatever it was), the three authors go find it and follow down his primrose path, and repeat. I dunno...it was kinda disappointing when I got to this part of the story. :)