Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Poor re-telling of a ludicrous conspiracy theory

"Pope Joan" is a contrived rehashing of a late medieval fable circulated originally (centuries after the underlying events were supposed to have occurred) to attack the church from a distinctly non-feminist perspective. This book updates the legend in a way that illustrates two curious phenomena: feminist carelessness with historical fact and the appeal of outlandish conspiracy theories. The events described in this book neither happened nor could conceivably have happened, much less been covered up by some sort of wide-ranging clerical conspiracy. You will not find a serious historian who believes this story even remotely plausible. In contrast to effect of the best historical fiction (e.g., Robert Graves' I, Claudius; Sigrid Undsett's Kristen Lavransdatter; Marguerite Yourcenar's Memoirs of Hadrian) this book hinders rather than contributes to a deeper understanding of the rich reality of human history.