Title: Dismal research ruins the ride
Product review: An easy read that pulls you in from the start. I really wanted to like this book, but my intellectual integrity wouldn't let me. This is the most poorly researched book I have ever read. It is riddled with basic factual errors, geographical errors, art history fallacies, and historical inaccurances, not to mention the absurdities concerning Christianity. It would have been so simple to cross-reference a few ideas, check a date or two, pick up a map of Paris, verify claims about events...I can't think of any reason for this embarrasing mess of mis-information. I strongly advise readers lacking a background in the arts to balance this read with research of your own, or critiques of this book highlighting the countless errors.
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