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Summary: AUTHOR MAKES AN EXCELLENT CASE FOR HIS THEORY
Review: My only problem with this book is that I don't know enough about the author. Who is he? What are his credentials? I suppose that this information might be in one of the hardcover books, or if i knew how to use the internet a bit better, I could find out somehow. But, insofar as the theme of the book, if he is truly accomplished enough in his field to interpret the ancient texts as he does, then he makes an outstanding case for humans to come from visitors from another planet...the 12th planet to be exact. Personally, I have quite a bit of knowledge about the Bible in my punkin' head but have a very broad mind when it comes to something like this. He does not actually refute the Bibles' message, and any fundamentalist who can at least take a few shots across the bow while learning about someone elses viewpoints could end up having a few questions about the Bible that he might not have entertained before. In the end, it is just a theory, but quite plausable and if a person with no knowledge of Bible history were to be presented with the author's theory or the story of the Bible, it is probable that the authors theory would be selected as the true story of creation.
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Summary: thought provoking
Review: Although it remains to be seen if Sitchin's theories are true, it is a foolish person that walks the Earth with a closed mind. If history has taught us anything, it is that man is infamous for criticizing and scoffing at new ideas and strange phenomenom that later turn out to be fact. Open you minds before it's too late.
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Summary: A Bunch of B.S.
Review: This book is so idiotic! Yeah, right, when we're disqualifying Pluto as a planet (it's too far away from the Sun to have an atmosphere!), this guy says that there's a planet beyond it. Oh yeah, and you know why people don't go to Antarctica? Atlantis is there! Give me a break . . .
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Summary: OPEN YOUR MIND!!! Who (helped) build the Pyramids???
Review: With all the fact in this book, it's hard to not want to read this book. With the research I have done on this subject, I truly believe that if this book isn't entirely true, then something about it is. One would be totally naive to think we are alone in this universe. Are you naive?
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Summary: A pitiful testament to human gullibility
Review: The previous reader who comments on Columbus would do well to read some history - in the time of Columbus every educated person knew the world was round - this had been known since ancient times and its size had been measured accurately in the ancient world using shadows cast in wells on the Tropic of Cancer. The doubt expressed about Columbus's voyage was NOT that the world was flat but that the distance to the East Indies Westward from Spain was too far to sail - and this was correct. If American had not been in the way Columbus would have starved to death somewhere in the Pacific. Turning to Sitchin, the book is a pitiful testiment to human stupidity and gullibility. Every ancient inscription with a pointy thing in it is taken as depicting a rocket, etc., - the usual von Daniken technique of "argument" and "evidence". And how could a hypothetical planet with an orbit that takes into deep space and back evolve like anything like Earth humans? A carving of a man on a bed (or something) with lines round it is presented as "evidence" of ancient radiotherapy, a pit-like structure (it could be a latrine) is a depiction of an ancient "missile-silo" (and why are missiles kept in silos?) The whole thing is garbage that insults the human mind. Buy it if you're an idiot. If you are a rational human being, read honest science-fiction like that of Larry Niven or Poul Anderson. Or, if you like unconventional archeological theories, read Thor Heyerdal, who is at least a real scientist.
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Summary: They Once Thought Columbus Was Crazy Too!
Review: The 12th. Planet should be read by anybody with an open mind. Even if you don't believe any of the ideas, you should at least think of what might be possible. Just a short time ago, they thought the earth was flat, and that the idea of space travel was the work of a madman. In fact the Catholic Church used to regularly imprison, or execute anybody who suggested the earth was round, and was part of a solar system. Forget about what would have happened, if you had stated that we'd travel to Mars someday! Perhaps something really did happen from the time of the dinosaurs, to the dawn of mankind? You don't have to believe, but JUST THINK OF THE POSSIBILITIES!!!
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Summary: A New "Heads Up" for the Modern World
Review: I first read the author's book nearly twenty years ago. I was heartily impressed by the scholarship, and it opened my eyes to the whole civilization that existed before Biblical times. Grand! I spent the next twenty years pursuing various pathways to "flesh-out" my views on his extraterrestrial conclusions (which should be kept separate from his in-depth evidence that "something odd" went on about that time). Very few other books have galvanized not only my attention but my sustained action. Highly recommended, though keep the evidence compartmentalized from the conclusions.What Mr. Sitchin details is a group of beings that have a "superset" of abilities to our own, at least as of many thousands of years ago. The author seems to restrict these beings to being merely of advanced technology, but purely physical. This leads directly to his extraterrestrial conclusions. Personally, I believe the situation is more mixed-dimensional than that. Another charm of Mr. Sitchin's book is that it invites us to view the world from a "perhaps we are not the top of the food chain" perspective. For instance, the Tigris-Euphrates area is now effectively closed off from the mass of archeologists. It is this possibility, that they may in some way still be here (remember, they may be effectively immortal), that makes this book so highly influential. There is something that we as a species are not yet "getting," and Mr. Sitchin (among many other researchers) is laying a groundwork. Thanks.
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Summary: Science fact for those uneducated in science.
Review: While I appreciate Mr. Sitchin attempt of bringing in numerous texts from a variety of ancient peoples, his spectacular interpretations are usually unjustified and redound in conjecture. This book is in the very least full of interesting ideas, which may inspire some enough to accept his lack of evidence.
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Summary: Wow!! What a revelation!
Review: At first I had to keep glancing at the spine of the book to read "non-fiction", now I am a complete convert of Mr. Sitchin's writings. Thanks again to his wife who encouraged him to put this marvellous piece of work together. Now, when do you estimate our 3600 years are up?
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Summary: The Truth is in this book.
Review: I love how some of the reviewers of Sitchin's books think that they know more than he does. Yeah, maybe they took a couple college courses on Anthropology or Archaeology, and believed everything that their professor shoved down their throat. Sitchin is no novice. when this book came out in 76, he had already been studying ancient civilizations for 30 years. If I am not mistaken, he was one of the first scholars ever to be able to completely decipher the cunieform writing! How could the Sumerians,in 3800 B.C. and earlier, know of all the planets in our solar system that we know of, when our own civilization did not find Pluto until 1930? In the very same ancient texts that are talking about the characteristics of Pluto, they give characteristics of another planet, Nibiru. If Nibiru is nothing but a myth, why would the ancient people incorporate it into every text refering to our solar system, along with the planets known to us today? If you have an open mind on how modern man came to be, then I would highly recomend reading the 12th Planet or any of Zecharia Sitchin's books.
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