LOL. Sounds like a hilarious book, I might read it sometime if I see a copy in a nearby garbage dumpster, with along with 'How to grow gardenias in your bathtub'.
Veronica | 07.31.06 - 12:52 pm | #

I never foresaw anything like this for the Da Vinci Code; a generation of copycat works perhaps on the rise. This may be just what is needed, and who knows, maybe more effective than the numerous debunking books that were written in record time. No offense to present company, of course.
Jonathan Lee | Homepage | 07.31.06 - 1:45 pm | #

In the immortal words of Joss Whedon: "GRRR! AARRGH!"

Wonder if Danny Boy will sue him for plaigiarizing the "facts" he DIDN'T make up.
Will | Homepage | 07.31.06 - 1:46 pm | #

I just realized that 'religion' rhymes with 'pigeon.'
Pavel Chichikov | Homepage | 07.31.06 - 2:06 pm | #

I also notice her surname is Malarkey -- which is what the novel sounds like. When, O Lord, will this crap stop??? Perhaps the book will make a good doorstop -- or not. Sounds like a piece of dreck.
Patricia Gonzalez | 07.31.06 - 7:10 pm | #

Mark: There's an even better book coming out from a woman named Kathleen McGowan. Her's is entitled The Expected One, and McGowan claims that she is a descendant of Jesus and Mary Magdalene. USA Today has a story about it as well as Malarkey's.
David Fischler | 07.31.06 - 7:55 pm | #

"There's an even better book coming out from a woman named Kathleen McGowan. Her's is entitled The Expected One, and McGowan claims that she is a descendant of Jesus and Mary Magdalene. USA Today has a story about it as well as Malarkey's."

Yeah, they kept a record in the family bible.

There was a psychiatric writer of about 40 years ago who wrote an essay about three guys in an institution somewhere in the Mid-West, each of whom thought he was Jesus Christ. When they were brought together they were polite but mostly ignored one another.

In fact, if Jesus had had progeny which survived to date, there would now be hundreds of millions of descendants, and almost everyone on the planet would be related however distantly, to Jesus.

So big deal.
Pavel Chichikov | Homepage | 07.31.06 - 8:58 pm | #

Mark, you wrote: "Must have been some rather muscular sparrows. What were her eyes doing on the pavement, anyway? Didn't she know somebody might step on them? And what would sparrows want with her eyes? (Don't go there. Even though Alfred Hitchcock did, and made a lot of money doing it.)"

I can't help thinking of the discussion in Monty Python's The Holy Grail, about how swallows could carry a coconut. To what species of sparrow does the author refer and how does their muscularity compare with other species of sparrow? Is the species' Latin name an anagram for a gnostic heresy?

Pat Goodmann
Pat | 08.01.06 - 3:23 pm | #