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Summary: missing predictions about kosovo
Review: I would like to get an answer to how the bible codes react to the words kosova, balkan and Milosovich
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Summary: Is This a Joke?
Review: When I first noticed this book I wondered whether it was a parody in the tradition of Naked Came the Stranger. The fallacy in its approach was so obvious and straightforward that I suspected some skeptics group was doing it as a put-on. I couldn't help but chuckle at the mathematical arguments and analysis given to support the supposed existence of the "messages" contained in the Bible. It consisted of a lot of fancy looking equations and formulas using symbols and syntax that most of us never encounter when balancing our checkbook. I had the distinct impression that someone was covering up a weak argument with a lot of fancy mathematical typesetting. The logical defect underlying this book (which the fancy - but misapplied - equations cannot conceal) is that by having no firm rules on what constitutes a message (pick patterns as you like - throw in vowels whenever they help - and these messages may or may not actually predict anything) you have no basis for calculating probabilities and therefore no grounds for claiming that patterns have been discovered beyond what random chance would allow. As I once heard the principle expressed: "It's not random when the fix is already in."I once offered someone to write a computer program that would help find such so-called patterns if they would provide the text of Lady Chatterley's Lover in a computer file. I could then demonstrate that the D.H. Larwence book would do as well as the Bible. I never received the online text. I also never wrote the program but learned that someone else had. They ran it against Moby Dick with similar success. So either The Bible Code is nonsense, or a fascinating new field of crypto-literary analysis is about to open up! Hmm... A final comment - I gave the book a single star because it was the lowest rating available. If reviewers are allowed to recognize a truly exemplary work with a 5 star rating, then it seems only fair that we should be able give 0 stars to works of such dubious merit.
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Summary: Kennedy was not killed by Olswald, but by the CIA.
Review: The fishy content of the book " The Bible Code" has subject that referrs to Olswald being the assasin who murdered Kennedy. If you believe that then there is no hope.
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Summary: STOP PRESS..Serbian crisis revealled in Oxford Thesaurus!
Review: I have read this book,(to my eternal regret) and was given a copy of the computer program involved by a credulous friend (whom I have since stopped speaking to) and have discovered a wealth of important predictions concerning past events in the Oxford English Thesaurus, when the Albanian refugee crisis began I tried combinations of important words and found SERBIA, TROUBLES, WAR and HOMELESS. Proof positive I think of the important message of prediction encoded for us by the Oxford university press. I also found LOVE, FILM, AWARD, SEVEN and PLAYWRIGHT, which neatly predicts the oscar sucess of Shakespeare in love, I don't think there can be any more to be said except that if you apply such a broad sequence of pattern matcing algorithms to any sufficiently long sequence of words you will find useful prophecies which, as with the works of Nostradamus are great for identifying events after they happen but less useful for making ACTUAL predictions. The old favourite in this field is that if you give a million monkeys a million typwriters and a million years to go at it, one of them will type the complete works of Shakespeare,it seems that it took them much less time to come up with this load of old tosh!
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Summary: excellent book.enriching to read. a must to buy
Review: A real good book about the bible code. Couldnt keep it down till I finished reading it beginning to end. Wish there was a continuation to it. Definitely worth reading.
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Summary: Drosnin's Deceptive Drivel
Review: The book was a fast read, the writing so-so, but I was amazed at the "so-called" discoveries. I guess I wanted to believe. But, little things kept niggling in the back of my brain. (1) Drosnin's refusal to attribute the code that he believed existed in the Bible to the God written about in the bible. (2) Various confusion of dates (2000 or 2006) and supposed "delays" (3) That the book does not actually predict the future, but possible outcomes of the future (if God actually put a secret code in the bible predicting the future why so many different outcomes, surely he knows the future) (4) Some of the unimportant things in the Bible Shakespeare - MacBeth, Hamlet (BIG DEAL) and this means for us??? Also where are the predictions for 1998-1999??? We just skip to year 2000??? Why the immediate future is too risky to predict (after all maybe the book is still selling) After reading the book I went to Drosnin's web sight to see if there were any further predictions and Lo! they discovered Princess Di's death with the words Lady Di, photographer, and spill or take my blood. What? Lady Di? Why use a nickname? Photographer?? more unimportant information. I give this book a 1, but I wanted to give it a ZERO. A zero, because not knowing any better (or my wanting to believe) I for a while thought it was true, then I learned that Drosnin left out so much information like not using vowels! I don't like being had. The only consolation I have is that I did not buy this book, but borrowed it from the library. I was here to buy other books & learn more about it, but I think I'll pass.
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Summary: enlightening wake-up call to the world of christians
Review: I find Michaels appraoch to this fascinating and refreshing. Rather than coming from a theologian who has a tendencey to bog you down with their interpretation of scripture, he has no clue as to what the Bible says and therefore, no opinion! It is a must for every believer wanting the truth!
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Summary: An interesting case of random sequencing in society
Review: Michael Drosnin's THE BIBLE CODE illustrates well a real-life application of a mathematical idea which is at once simple and complex. The central notion presented is that the Torah (Old Testament) is riddled with predictions of the future encoded as equidistant letter sequences. Approximately 100 examples of this are given in the book. Unfortunately, the mathematical problem upon which the book depends is given short shrift. Drosnin quotes a Harvard mathematician, an NSA cryptanalyst, among others, who seem to think that the phenomenon observed is unique and inexplicable. But this is clearly wrong. The same phenomenon *can* and has been observed in other works, such as Melville's MOBY DICK. The more words you string together, the greater the likelihood of finding words that match or describe events. The book works well as non-fiction/fiction, is easy to read and quite compelling in it's way.
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Summary: Intriguing, hard to put down, amazing, disturbing. But real?
Review: I read The Bible Code under advisement that it was probably not legit. I found no gaping flaws in the theories and examples presented. Drosnin's work has been wracking my brain for 6 months, until now. My background is physics and electrical engineering, so I have a knack for spotting errors in stuff like this very quickly. Drosnin did a great job of presenting what seemed like the find of the century, if not all recorded human history. Some one named Micheal, who reviewed (in Amazon.com) Cracking The Bible Code was one of the more serious naysayers of that book and the theme it presented. He graciously provided me with a URL that will quickly reduce the Bible Code theme to what it really is: nonsense. you will find that there is in fact very little actual science going on within the theme of an embedded code within the Torah. Turns out that Rabin's assasination and that of Lincoln are also embedded within ESLs in Moby Dick. And the Microsoft Access License Agreement also has amazing prior knowledge of future events! So before any of you go jumping into this fray, do your homework at the latter URL and then decide whether your time and money is better spent on something else. I just wish I had learned about the flip side sooner.
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Summary: Interesting
Review: After years of studying religion, I was fascinated by the depth of study and testing the author did and with the seemingly genuine attempt to consider alternatives. I'm not altogether impressed with the author's writing style but appreciated the information. In general, it isn't anything we don't already know: the future looks bleak indeed unless serious changes are made in the hearts of men. There have been many warnings of this nature in other writings and teachings. I found the book interesting and thought provoking. Take the reminder to value human life, be a caretaker of the envronment and to contribute to the vital work of peace in your own corner of the world.
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