On 18 Nov 2005 07:09:48 -0800, am05@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
>
>William Black wrote:
>> "Doug Weller" <dweller@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>> news:halrn1p9iiq022pr5nvaibi5jl4rult9v9@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> > All but one of the Amazon reviews are, to put it mildly, worthless.
But an
>> > acquaintance of mine, Donald Ball, has written a serious review, see
>> >
>> >
>>
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1412026423/103-6438203-2351815?v=glance&n=283155
>>
>> Scary stuff
>>
>> I assume this is the next 'Holy Blood, Holy Grail'.
>>
>
>I managed to read few pages from this one and it is rather funny. As
>far as I can judge, it is
>built on a standard premise 'the public is stupid and will digest
>anything': all the known and
>seemingly unrelated things are glued together by some clearly phony or
>questionable
>'links', then some ....er... 'facts' are added (with a correct
>assumption that most of the
>readers don't have enough knowledge and/or interest to check them) and
>voila!
>
>Of course, Templars were in the middle of it (weren't they always?) and
>there were dissapearing
>galleys loaded with their gold... I would think that by XXI century
>most of the people
>eventually figured out that the bankers don't keep most of their
>capital in a bullion by a simple
>reason that, unless invested, it does not bring any profit...
I don't know about the rest of the argument but this part is not quite
correct. Bankers borrow money and bankers lend money. The whole
merry-go-round depends upon a hard core of security which in those
days may very well have comprised chests of bullion.
>But I
>must admit that the
>dissapearing treasure fleet is much more entertaining.... OTOH, was a
>galley an effective
>cargo ****p? IIRC, most of the sea travel was done in more seaworthy
>vessels.
>
>
>IIRC, one of the authors was on TV in a program dedicated to 'Da Vinchi
>Code' and was
>doing some criticism of the ....er... facts presented in this book.
>
>> Oh well, if it is we'll get a buckett load in the next feww weeks...
>
>Do you prefer buckets of the today's politics? :-)
>
>>
>> I keep saying that one day I'm going to write something like this and
make
>> enough money to live in luxury for the rest of my life...
>
>You just have to find a publisher. The rest is easy. :-)
>
Eric Stevens
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