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Title: Good writing but stupid story...
Review: This story was, quite simply, based on nothing. The Turin Shroud has been proven to be a fake - not just by Carbon-14 dating but also by thermoluminesnce and electron spin resonance tests as well as by historical criticism of extant records. Yet this whole book is based on it being "the real thing." There are enough flaws in Christianity as a religion without bringing in patently false history. This is not to bash Christians - it is simply a fact in the research that I have done.The somewhat "other-wordly" nature of Jesus posited in the book was an interesting twist but not enough to carry the day for me. This book tries to walk that secular/religious line and, I guess for the most part it does okay on that, but the whole basis of the plot is ruined right from the start with the Shroud material.True believers in Christianity will probably not like where the book goes. Secular readers will not be gulliable enough (in the religious sense) to buy into the premise.
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