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Summary: Not as good as "The Big Book Of Conpiracies", but enjoyable.
Review: Being the type of person who likes to keep up to date with what's new in the supernatural, paranormal, and unknown realms of human awarness I only found a few things new to me in this book. I still found the book an enjoyable read. I guess seeing much of the same ol' rehash of paranormal material in a comic format is appealing to me.
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Summary: Big Book of is the BEST!
Review: Have fun with this series, they are wonderful! So much fun, a delight to read. Not quite as good as the Big book of conspiracies, but still great!
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Summary: The Procession of the Damned Marches On!
Review: I have become a huge fan of this book series since I picked up the Big Book of Little Criminals. This book does a great job of describing all the wierdness this world has to offer. The best thing about this book and the others in the series is that you can show an article to someone who would not otherwise be intersted in the subject, since the "Comic" format is so easy to read. Highly, Highly recommended.
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Summary: Just a great read !
Review: I have become a huge fan of this book series since I picked up the Big Book of Little Criminals. This book does a great job of describing all the wierdness this world has to offer. The best thing about this book and the others in the series is that you can show an article to someone who would not otherwise be intersted in the subject, since the "Comic" format is so easy to read. Highly, Highly recommended.
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Summary: Not as good as the other books in the series
Review: I thoroughly enjoyed the other books I've read in this series, especially The Big Book Of Death, which have always proven to be fun and interesting. This book has the same problem that nearly all books about the paranormal have, which is a total lack of any rigor or skepticism. Every goofy paranormal claim is treated seriously, no matter how many times it's been debunked. I know this book isn't exactly a serious discussion of the subject matter, but it would be nice to see a little more fostering of healthy skepticism and a little less passionate embrace of phony mystery.
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Summary: The best of the "Big Book of" series
Review: I've owned just about all of the "Big Book of" series published to date, and this is clearly the best. In fact, it is the only one I kept when it was time to move and I needed to lighten the load. It is just so darn entertaining- and you find something new every time you pick it up. That is why I bought it in the first place, instead of being a rehashing of stuff that I already knew about for years, I actually learned some significant new things. If you are jaded and think that there is "nothing new under the sun" try reading this, it will expand your horizons. It covers everything from crop circles, synchronicity, the crystal skull, ancient high tech, space/time anomalies, alternate dimensions, alien abduction, death of the 5th sun, etc., etc., etc....
And it is all tied together in a humorous way by the character of Charles Fort (The Book of the Damned.)
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Summary: Comic-book weirdness with a Bibliography . . .
Review: If you're like me and think the X-files is tame pap compared to the real weirdness of the world, this book is for you. It's a comic-book summary of some of the stranger phenomena of history, including a few fascinating things not convered in "mainstream" paranormia. It's not just flying saucers and bigfoot - there's plety of other strangeness that is interesting and disturbing. The comic-book presentation actually brings home the effect of the phenomena, from cartoonish parodying to starkly realistic portrayals of strangeness.Best of all there's a bibliography for useful research . . .
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Summary: Comic-book weirdness with a Bibliography . . .
Review: If you're like me and think the X-files is tame pap compared to the real weirdness of the world, this book is for you. It's a comic-book summary of some of the stranger phenomena of history, including a few fascinating things not convered in "mainstream" paranormia. It's not just flying saucers and bigfoot - there's plety of other strangeness that is interesting and disturbing. The comic-book presentation actually brings home the effect of the phenomena, from cartoonish parodying to starkly realistic portrayals of strangeness. Best of all there's a bibliography for useful research . . .
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Summary: Very choppy, not up to the quality of the series
Review: The Big Book of the Unexplained seeks to explore unexplained phenomena in comic book form. Subjects touched on include: aliens, the Loch Ness monster, glass skulls, mummy curses and many perhaps too many more.
There are some obvious benefits to exploring such phenomena in graphical form. Namely a picture is worth a thousand words. After all when one is talking about a photo of a UFO or the Nazga plains, having the visual evidence there is much better than describing the visual evidence. That's a nice theory but it doesn't happen. Almost all the illustrations are artist's conceptions. Also because there are no photographs, only artist's drawings from photographs, this book actually eliminates or distorts visual evidence for UFOs and Nessie. In both cases photos exist and have been central to debates on the existence of the phenomena so it is stupid to omit photos.
This book could have used some focus. It has something like 40 chapters each covering a different topic and some as short as two pages. However the topics tend to overlap and so does the information presented. For example the same photo allegedly of Nessie's flipper is brought up and referenced in bad drawings at least three times. This leads me to believe the book was very poorly outlined before being written. Coverage of subjects is broad, not deep and sources for information aren't given, so The Big Book of the Unexplained is sure to disappoint scholars and the curious alike.
The Big Book of the Unexplained fails. Avoid this book. It isn't up to the quality of other books in The Big Book of.. series. At most one could pull some names and dates (which aren't always given) from the book and go from there.
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Summary: Inexplicable
Review: This book is a great collection of bizarre phenomena. The artwork, as is typical of Factoid Books, is just beautiful, and I often find myself reading the same passages over and over again. A true must-have for any lover of the unexplained. My only qualms about it are that some of the "facts" are copied verbatim from their sources (I've looked), but it's permissible in the face of the overall achievement. Buy it today.
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