Title: Interesting and surprisingly fun reading
Review: This sweeping history is well-written and laden with humor, which makes it an enjoyable book to read. Crocker's broadsides on Protestantism and its supposed effects on the world are, I think, a bit overblown, and he glosses over the corruption in the Church that gave fuel to the Reformation. His history is, nonetheless, probably one of the more balanced accounts to have come out in awhile. This is an excellent book to get an historic overview of what may be the most influential institution of the past two millenia.
Is this product review negative?