-By now I should know better-

I always get excited when I get my hands on a controversial new book with 50+ holds in the public library queue; most recently, Lynn Picknett’s the Secret History of Lucifer. The blurb on the jacket identifies Picknett as a writer and speaker on Christian heresies, but the author's accompanying photo suggests Clara Bow.



Picknett makes many bold statements about biblical inconsistencies, which are spot on, if fairly obvious. But before you invite her to your salon, be warned – she will probably overturn the pasta salad bowl and accuse the macaroni spirals of trying to impregnate her.

In short, she is one of those rare birds so obsessed with phalluses (and at the same time, terrified of the very concept) that this read feels uncomfortably like bobbing for apples in a bucket ballpark franks.