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Summary: at last, someone speaks the truth
Review: this book will be the new historical referent, as it tell us how we got mankind, and who Jehova was really.
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Summary: Food for Thought
Review: I thoroughly enjoyed this book. So much so, I ordered the rest of the series and am now halfway through "The Stairway to Heaven."About the only flaw I found in "The 12th Planet," was Sitchin's abrupt beginning and dense prose. Reading it was a bit like listening to someone speak heavily accented English. I'm not saying I agree 100% with what he says. I did, however, find it fascinating and the length and breadth of his research astounding. My suggestion, dear reader, is to do as I did. Buy this book, read it and if you find it and the theories in it intriguing, buy and read the rest. Ignore all the hoopla for and against you may read here. Read the book and make up your own mind. If nothing else, Sitchin will give you lots to think about for a long time to come. Oh... and to answer one of the other "reviewers" questions about Niburu breaking up like a comet. Why would it? It's in orbit (according to Sitchin) like all the other planets and since when do comets "break up" anyway? The only time they do is if they run into something like Jupiter. And Sitchin addresses the idea (far too briefly) of how life could possibly originate on a planet that spends most of its time so far away from the sun. Heat, not light, is what is necessary (he says) for the formation of life. He theorizes that Niburu generates its own heat. {shrug} As good a theory as any, I guess.
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Summary: Tantalizing But...
Review: People can have many kinds of motivations for believing or disbelieving this kind of book. First in Sitchin's "Earth Chronicles" series, The 12th Planet gives a history of Man's origins which is a curious synthesis of "old time religion" and modern scholarship. In fact, believers in UFOs and aliens from other planets might be Sitchin's most likely audience-if not for the fact that his work is scholarly, well, semi-scholarly; it has a bibliography but doesn't cite sources, still it takes a certain level of education and intelligence to get much out of it. My impression is, in a nutshell this: it may be true-at least some of it-because a lot of it makes sense. There is a certain logic to it. Though on the other hand there are gaps and holes. For example, if "the gods of old" were really spacemen who genetically engineered "Adam," meaning the early Homo Sapiens, or Cro-Magnon man, why is there no physical, high-tech evidence of their existence? And why were their "chronicles" written on clay tablets instead of in books or on ancient CD's? Then again there is a lot of compelling or at least tantalizing evidence, (if the sources verify the evidence). There is the rich legacy of the Sumarian writings; there is the ancient architecture; there is evidence of gold miming in southern Africa, pre-dating the earliest known civilizations; and much more. But for me, the idea that is most intriguing is the one that posits the Nefilim ("the gods"), as the likely creators of civilization--including agriculture, husbandry, the "naked ape," (man), the arts and sciences; and much more--all of which seemed to appear "whole cloth," out of nowhere, in the Middle East, a few thousand years ago. It is as if Sitchin answers biologist Michael Behe's riddle. The 12th Planet also provides a curious explanation for astronomer Tom Van Flandern's Exploded Planet hypothesis. This book is a great example of out-of-the-box thinking.
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Summary: Amazing!
Review: I first read this book in 1991, the scope is amazing,
the theories awe inspiring. This book started a reading
regimen that has lasted 12 years and spanned 100's of
other books on the topics first introduced to me by
Sitchin. Get prepared to change everything you think
is true. View it as a start of a great journey.
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Summary: A theory that makes sense
Review: An alternative view of history that makes more sense the garbage we are normally spoon fed by archeologists, scientists, and theologians. The evidence presented is compelling and the work scholarly. I went on to read everything written by this man. Amazing work!
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Summary: Amazing Ancient History
Review: Finally an explanation of ancient Sumerian, Accadian, and other texts that corroborates 'some' of the propoaganda in the bible. I am totally blown away by the translations, the actual images, and the history recounted in this text. I come away from reading 12th Planet a changed man; I feel like I've been let in on a HUGE secret regarding humans' past. So what if we are all genetically engineered?
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Summary: hold your horses
Review: This book was entertaining, but Sitchin expouses far too many "theories" for one work and presents them as fact. I enjoyed this book, and it does make sense if you take what he says at face value. I have a difficult time believing these unsourced speculations though. Here we have an author who presents his information as if he is 100% right and everyone else is wrong, and that's always a red flag. I don't even want to begin discussing the speculations presented here, there are too many to list. The interesting thing: say Sitchin is right about 10% of the ideas he presents here. Should 10% of what he says be proven true, a re-write of ancient history would have to be undertaken. Perhaps this is what the author had in mind when writing "The 12th Planet"... bombard the reader with an informational overload and hope that one or two things turn out correct. Discriminating readers need to take what he says with a grain of salt and do some of their own research. If you're not too picky about what or who you believe, you'll love this. I will read another in this series because I was very entertained by "The 12th Planet", but I was not persuaded by his argument.
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Summary: Just two questions...
Review: When planet X approaches the inner solar system, shouldn't it disintegrate like a giant comet? How can a planet beyond the orbit of Pluto support life? If humans are supposed to be created in God's image, then shouldn't the aliens from Planet X being human-like? That would imply that they need water, sunlight, oxygen, photosynthesis, and plants/animals to survive. Like they say on those CSICOP tee shirts, "I doubt it".
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Summary: Procede with caution
Review: While this book may be "enlightening," it does not hold up to any scientific, historical, or philological scrutiny. Enjoy it as a work of pure fiction, but do not rely on it as serious scholarship. Consider the reviewer who readily accepted this mysterious, alien-inhabited planet as a proven fact and yet found the suggestion of Abraham as an actual person to be insufferable. If you hold such views, consider reading this book, if not, do not waste your time or money. (The one star was for entertaiment value only, otherwise it deserves zero stars.)
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Summary: Hello!! Please turn on a brain cell or 2!
Review: Okay, so aliens. Fine. But who made the aliens? Other aliens? Who made them? As a very wise man once said, "the simplest explaination is the correct one". This is not. Its properly categorized as Sci-Fi. If read in that vein, well its just dull then.
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