I have found Ehrman's writings on the New Testament utterly fascinating, but I have also found that the more of them I read, the less there is that is new to me. This makes it difficult to say whether PP&M is not as good as Ehrman's previous books or if I have simply reached a point of diminishing returns with Ehrman.

Perhaps it's a bit of both. Of all the books I've read by Ehrman, this has the least compelling premise, being the story of three significant figures in Christianity who appear to have been chosen simply so the book could be titled after a sixties folk act.

I didn't even make it through the first of the three. The book utterly failed to hold my interest.

I'm not giving up on Ehrman yet, but I am worried that I'm at a point where anything I read by him will be at least half things I've read almost verbatim in earlier books. I am hoping this is simply a lesser Ehrman book and that the next one I read will win me over yet again, but since the Goodreads rating on this book is similar to that of the others I've read, I am not hopeful.