The Amityville Horror Conspiracy

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Summary: Awesome
Review: This is one of the best books I have ever read. It makes you think more about the supernatural world. A 5 star book! Buy It!

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Summary: A must have for anyone interested in the paranormal!
Review: This is the most honest book on the paranormal that you will ever find! I only wish that it was published earlier so that not only would Dr.Kaplan get to enjoy it's success, but perhaps we would have been lucky enough to see even more fine work from both Dr.Kaplan and his wife Roxanne. I have read this book several times, amd I often carry it with me because it always provides good reading, no matter how many times I've read it. Honesty and integrity are hard to find in todays paranormal researchers. Stephen Kaplan was one of a kind.

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Summary: Interesting subject...boring book.
Review: Too many details - this book sounded like a jumble of facts all thrown together, but not interesting enough to really hold my attention. Given the subject matter, it could have been much more interesting. I sold it back to the bookstore without even finishing it.

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Summary: Untrue book
Review: Untrue book. This book tries to "proove" that Jay Anson's book "The Amityville Horror" isn't true. Well, actually it has been proven that this book is the real hoax. Most of all the "proof" in this book are a bunch of lies. Don't bother with this book.Strangely enough, Stephen Kaplan, the author of this book died right before this book was published. He shouldn't have messed around with the paranormal.

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Summary: The Real Deal...
Review: We all love a really good ghost story, and "The Amityville Horror" gave it to us on a plate. This book definitively debunks the myth, and sets the record VERY straight. Kind of a bummer that we now know that this never happened (reminds me of the feeling that I get watching "Magicians' Secrets Revealed"), but glad to not be deceived. The most revealing tribute for this book would be the fact that "The Amityville Horror" is long out-of-print, and this book is still going strong!

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Summary: Why?
Review: What i don't understand about this book is how this guy can prove its a hoax when he was only in the house 1 time and then could never explain what equipment he used when he was there?

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Summary: Thank You!!!!!!!!
Review: When I was younger, about 10, I saw The Amityville Horror on TV and was quite shaken by the movie, becouse it was 'A True Story', so I could not understand why my parents were seemingly so bored with the movie and at times flat out laughed. When I became an adult I would look into this story myself and decide on my own. I found a lot of meterial on the subject from both a pro amd con aspect. I came to the conclsion that the story was in fact a hoax and I decided to read the The Amityville Horror by Jay Anson and found myself at times shaking my head. When I saw the movie agian I couldn't help but laugh. A friend of mine gave me The Amityville Conspiricy and I found it to be very informitive. I have read, and enjoyed, books by The Warrens and I thought this was a good way to get another opinion on the case. And I did just that. At times the book is a little drawn out and wordy but the material more than makes up. Kaplan, in great detail, exposes the The Amityville Horror for the hoax that it really is. I feel that thepublic has been duped long enough and it was refreashing to see a book come out that looks at the case as a work of fiction and that is just what the Anson book was as far as I can see. After reading this book I have read even more on the case and found that it needs some real re-investigating to decide just what the hell went on.I my opinion, nothing. The Amityville Horror is a scary book and movie if you take it with a grain of salt. If not you will never enjoy that great work of fiction........

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Summary: Interesting & informative but burdened by the Author's Bias
Review: While I just adore books that expose hoaxes, and I looked forward to this book for a long time knowing that it was in the pipelines and having heard Kaplan on Local radio in NYC, I must say that this book is really only for the serious Amityville researcher since the Author's diary-like approach repeats many statements over and over ad nusaeum and contains too many self-congratulatory comments about his own life. I found the details of his personal life an intrusion since he did not strive to make them important to the Story he was weaving of what he believes to be an elaborate but ill-planned Hoax that started out simple and got more complex the more the media grabbed onto the story. It is not particularly well-written and for someone claiming to have spent a lifetime as a researcher he does not back up some of his most startling claims with the necessary follow-through a real investigavtive Journalist would. Also, I found it completely disarming that this dedicated exposer of Hoaxers would admit to having faith in such discredited new age hoakum as "Pyramid Power" of all things. I feel you should buy the book despite it's faults simply for some of the belly laughs you'll get at the simple explanations of who Jody the pig really was ( a cat) and some of the other outragious lies perpetrated by the Lutzes. I do wish the Author were still alive , however, so he and I could go toe to toe and so I could see him have a chance to work with a better Editor and get his writing more polished. He died before the book was published at a relatively young age and although he was not a great writer, he seemed to be a good-hearted man who knew how to have fun and laugh at the sillines of mass hysteria around the Amityville Hoax. My other regret is that he did not investigate the disturbing ties between the Lutzes and the defense attorney for Ronnie De Feo who blew away his family in the house before the Lutzes bought it and supposedly that is what started their nightmare. Why would they, the new owners be so buddy buddy with De feos defense attorney? Were they trying to get him an Insanity plea via a claim of Demonic Possession? This is alleged but never explored by Kaplan and it makes the book peter out at the end with no real conclusions about why on earth the Lutzes perpetrated this Hoax.

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Summary: KAPLAN HAS THE LAST LAUGH
Review: WHY ARE THE WARRENS STILL TRYING TO DEFAME MR KAPLAN AFTER HIS DEATH ...SEEMS TO ME ..DR KAPLAN GAVE THE AMITYVILLE HORROR A HAYMAKER TO THE CHIN I WAS A STRONG BELIEVER IN THIS STORY FOR A LONG TIME AND EVEN THEN I SAW INCONSISTENCIES IN IT THANK GOD FOR STEPHEN KAPLAN AND WILLIAM WEBER FOR GVING US THE TRUTH...WONDER WHY THE LUTZES ARE SO SILENT ABOUT THE BOOK?