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Summary: The biggest, bestest conspiracy EVER!
Review: I don't know what to make of this book. Mr. Icke claim that we have ALWAYS been ruled by lizards from Mars. Hilary Clinton and Queen Elizabeth are lizards, whereas Bill Clinton is merely a puppet. You cannot SEE these lizards because they live in another dimension, but people with above average ESP skills can clearly SEE our lizard masters walking the Earth.A lot of reviewers claim that if you dislike or disagree with Icke and this book it's obviously because your mind is not open enough. Well, Icke certainly SOUNDS convinced (and you have to be VERY open-minded to take him 100% seriously), but just because you BELIEVE something, it doesn't mean you are right. At the same time I cannot help but wonder whether Icke hasn't merely invented the biggest and best conspiracy of them all in order to make money. After all, the idea that we are unwittingly ruled by some sort of secret society is hardly new. It's a staple of conspiracy books. Secondly, as the author points out in the first few chapters, we are fascinated by reptiles (Godzila was a reptile, there was a serpent in paradise and so on) put an archetypal enemy together with a basic model conspiracy theory and voila! you have an instant cult classic. The worst part, as many reviewers have pointed out, is the fact that the research is hardly impressive. Icke quotes either his own books or privately printed papers. The better chapters are apparently based on a book called "Trance: Formation of America" and you might as well read that and cut out the middle man. Other things are a bit old. For example, Icke also makes much of a place called "Bohemian Grove", a place where the US establishment apparently gets together for toga parties (and pedophilic rape and serial murder if Icke is to be believed) but I'd heard of this place through National Lampoon back in the 1980s. Hardly earth shattering news. Icke is also fascinated by the fact that Democrats and Republicans socialize freely. Well, I'd be very surprised if they didn't. after all they're in the same business know the same people and so on. Surely a guy that sells Toyotas can be friends with a guy that sell Fords? I'd dismiss this book entirely if it wasn't for the fact that a friend of mine told me once that he watched the TV coverage of the Seoul Olympics while on certain substances... and saw the competitors in the diving event turn into lizard men...
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Summary: Fantasy Fun
Review: Icke attacks Christianity with such a tenacity that it leads one to wonder if perhaps secretly he is frightened that Christianity will rear up and overpower him and prove him wrong ! Even within the first 10 or so pages of the book, his arguments and examples jump from one unsubstantiated claim or quote to the next. If you enjoy a soap opera, and if that soap opera would be much more exciting to you if you could convince yourself that it was based on truth, then this is the book for you!
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Summary: MOST OF IT IS TRUE,BUT THERE IS EVEN MORE TO IT.
Review: THE WORLD NEEDS TO KNOW.HE GAVE ME WRITTEN VERIFICATION OF MANY THINGS I KNEW WERE TRUE.I DON'T WANT ANYONE TO FEAR,BECAUSE THE BEINGS HE SPEAKS OF THRIVE ON PEOPLES FEAR. PEOPLE NEED TO WAKE UP NOW! MOST OF THE BEINGS HE WRITES ABOUT PLUS OTHERS HAVE MANIPULATED HUMANITY FOR FAR TO LONG! THIS IS OUR PLANET. IT IS THE PEOPLE THAT ARE IN DENIAL THAT ARE IN THE BIGGEST DANGER OF MIND CONTROL AND FULL OR PARTIAL POSSESSION. TO THE PEOPLE THAT MAKE FUN OF HIM.IT IS POSSIBLE THAT YOU ARE BEING MADE TO IGNORE HIS TEACHINGS.THINK ABOUT IT.I DON'T KNOW MR. ICKE BUT I DO KNOW THAT THIS MAN HAS RISKED HIS LIFE TO TELL THE WORLD.MAKE NO MISTAKE ABOUT IT!
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Summary: Just finished it!
Review: David Icke with his horrid mullet haircut and his less than appealing fashion sense has long been a figure of fun in the UK. A couple of days ago I was browsing at my local bookshop when a middle aged couple asked a girl at the counter where they could find this very book. She and her colleagues burst out laughing before directing the blushing pair to the 'new age/occult' section of the store (Icke certainly does not belong to either of these fields). The couple fingered a copy of The Biggest Secret obviously embarrased. They soon left without making a purchase and with their tails between their legs. I had wanted to assure them that it was a worthy read but I stalled for fear of being ridiculed as well, and they had gone before I mustered the courage. This is significant because believing in what you feel to be right and not being detered by fear of public ridicule is in many ways at the core of what Icke is saying. This is why a NOT impressively endowed Icke pictures himself butt-naked on the cover of 'I am me, I am free'. He is demonstrating that he has liberated himself from the derogatory value judgements of society and the media. They mock him and he happily supplies them with more fuel to continue doing so. For this alone he deserves respect! We all want to be free of the pressure to conform, don't we? Icke doesn't profess to be someone special. He wants us all to be exposed to the truth, whatever that might be, and to make informed choices about our lives. Each of us can then choose our own individual path. Not some collective path that everyone must follow or suffer the wrath of the majority. I have heard accusations of anti-semitism levelled at Icke. Well if 'The Biggest Secret' is anything to go by that notion is bollocks (as we say in England). Without question David Icke is an egalatarian, a humanist and a man who believes we should celebrate diversity and treat everybody on the planet with respect and love. The reptilians need love more than anybody he says! A lot of the criticisms in the reviews below seem to come from defensive christians who feel threatened by Icke's theories. This is understandable. Nobody likes to have their belief system questioned. But Icke in many ways presents a christian point of view. He believes in the eternal soul, he is an incredible pacifist (which you certainly can't say about many christians, despite the teachings of jesus), he believes that god is everywhere, though to him God does not represent an omnipotent individual who requires obsequience and worship as the Gods of all the major religions in the world today do. According to Icke God (or whatever you want to call it) is simply a universal energy that manifests itself as all things tangible and otherwise (including us), and it is entirely neutral morally. This energy can be used in positive ways or negative (for good or evil, if you like). The only thing Icke leaves out is the dogma and the hierarchical structure that is a huge part of all the major religions. Some of these same reviewers question the quality of his research and the reliability of his sources (I have to say I found his research exhaustive, and exhausting!) perhaps they'd like to challenge their bible on similar grounds? Another christian reviewer rants that this book is fear based. Ahem, ahem, Hell? Lakes of fire? Eternal damnation? Not to mention all the religious purges and massacres that pepper history. David Icke's book is about freeing yourself from fear! Fear of failing; fear of being unaccepted by the crowd; fear of dying; fear of instability, financial and otherwise. He says the only way to defeat the brotherhood's plan to enslave humanity is to open your hearts to love and leave fear, hate, anger and all the other negative emotions behind. Someone below also suggests that if the reptilian brotherhood really wanted to destroy the world they could just nuke everyone as they are invariably in positions of global power. Did you even read the book? They want global domination, not global destruction. Who the hell are they going to dominate if the waste everybody? Read the book, you might find it interesting. David Icke is a sincere fella. He asks not that you swallow his theories mindlessly (unlike some other belief systems) and only attempts to give everybody access to earth-shattering information. You can take away what you will. David Icke reiterates that everybody has the right to believe in what they choose as long as they don't try to impose it on others. We don't live in that social climate at the moment. Personally, I don't embrace all his theories. What I do embrace is the possibility that they are true. I embrace the possibility that there are other possibilities besides those sanctioned by governments, religions, society and particularly the media. This is common sense to anybody, surely? David Icke is a real humanitarian. The last couple of chapters are wonderfully inspirational. Read this book. It's valuable. It's amazing.
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Summary: A rare eye-opener AND page-turner
Review: ... Reading this book was a confirmation of some truths which I had always known without being taught. The rest of it was astonishing. The author takes us through a throughly researched tale of intrigue which is no tale at all. If you have a problem with anyone who would tell you that your religious icon may be a figment of someone's imagination, then don't buy the book. It will be a waste of your money, and it will probably end up in your fireplace... However, for those with open minds, this book will shape the way you perceive the world around you!
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Summary: Without believing the content, still a fascinating exercise
Review: I find that reviews of the book often reveal more about a title than merely the sum of the reviewers' own opinions. The very fact that most of the dismissers of this work live in the US or UK, is telling. Whether one believes the premise or not (and I have no idea), I think perhaps individuals in those nations may chafe at a harness which we all know, at some level, exists. That said, internecine gangland lizard warlords? Um, I don't think so, but as Cervantes cautioned us about the need to consider that windmills are giants, this book is fascinating in its ability to make the reader consider, well, maybe George Bush and his cousin Elizabeth R, are really reptiles from another planet. That Icke is capable of pulling it off, is itself a miracle, and a credit to the author. BTW, I'd also take issue with the initial Amazon review likening Icke to Robert Anton Wilson. Wilson NEVER suggests his theories are "truth", rather he uses them as intellectual exercises. Anyone reading Wilson for exigency, is missing his entire point. And while his aim may be religion, Icke's methodology is breathtaking to behold. Read it to stimulate thinking, not to believe.
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Summary: Provides us with a whole new way of seeing.
Review: No matter how outrageous David Icke may seem, the great value of his books is that they do provide a framework for understanding the seemingly irrational world in which we live. If you are one of those thoughtful and sensitive persons who have been going nuts trying to understand the craziness of a world in which little today seems to make any sense at all - if you have been asking yourself "Are human beings completely mad?" - this is the book for you. Read it, and many of those things that now seem totally inexplicable will become perfectly comprehensible. David Icke, it should be noted, is not a voice crying in the wilderness. There are many other noteworthy writers such as William Cooper, Jim Marrs, Jan van Helsing, William Bramley, Linda Moulton Howe, Gerry Vassilatos, Richard L. Thomson, David M. Jinks, etc., who have undertaken the thankless task of trying to alert a superficial and media-befuddled public to various hidden aspects of current reality. Collectively they present a mass of fully documented evidence, and even detailed references to actually existing institutions and laws. One notes with interest that debunkers have yet to even attempt to convincingly explain any of this evidence away, though they can be very good when it comes to smearing character and indulging in their knee-jerk "I don't think so" non-argument. My advice to the intelligent would be to forget about the nay-sayers, who will always be with us, and to read Icke's book with an open mind. I think you will learn a great deal. David Icke provides us with a whole new way of seeing. Those with a large emotional investment in a rosy view of things should avoid it, but the more courageous will find Icke's history of the method underlying the world's madness invaluable. The world is a far stranger and more sinister place than we have been told, and I would agree with reviewer Adaria that it's time we all started praying...
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Summary: And what about the giraffe people...
Review: I read the first two chapters, then I got engrossed in it. Not because of the actual content but about the fact that the author has had a audacity to print a book that firstly he believed would actually sell. Furthermore, I commend his publishers for believing in the niche market which make up his audience that would actually buy the book. I returned my book this morning and bought another book called Conversations with God book 3 By Nealle Donald Walsh.I already have got book 1 and two, Now if you had the mindset,like me, that had some undefined part of you that wanted to know about the topic of life. If we had the motivation to pick up a fear based book such as The biggest secret, I would reccomend a better book by a million counts- Conversations with God BK 1 and 2 and in a week after I have read it, almost definitely book 3. I do believe that we are from this earth as as well as simultaneously not from it. I think we are all visitors anyway for a brief moment called life, everybody including 'objective' David. I think it is a presumptiuos, passionate pulp of a read. And I think if you want to read a hybrid of the National Enquirer with a spiritual angle, this is the book for you.
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Summary: Trash
Review: I can't believe that people actually believe this crap. Do people really get satisfaction or enjoyment from reading this trash? This scares the heck out of me! Icke claims that all religions are false and are infulenced by lizardman. If so, then why do such religions as Christianity and Judaism believe in kindness and compassion, and have originizations that promote kindness? If these creatures are so smart and powerful, then how come they have been around for thousands of years and haven`t completely destroyed us yet? If they control world leaders, then how come all the world leaders haven't used nukes(which have been around for a while) to blow each other's nations to bits? Didn't Icke go on TV saying he was Christ, and later denied saying that, AND saying Jesus never existed? Before reading this book, please realize this book is just some morons opinion. Enjoy life people. Believe in the afterlife and in God. It will make you feel a wholew lot better than knowing that humanity is being undermined by a race of superbeings.
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Summary: Faulty sources, faulty logic
Review: This book does not require a lengthy review. The author's sources are clearly faulty. His major quoted sources are his own previous works. He also places great credence in the hallucinations of mental patients. His logic is equally fallacious. He uses the same sources and reasoning to prove opposite conclusions. The TV series of some years ago, "V - the Final Battle", is more entertaining and just as believable as this book. I do NOT recommend it. I would have given it 0 stars if that option were available.
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