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Summary: A MUST READ FOR OPEN MINDS
Review: Like ALL of his books, this one too is amazing, compelling, persuasive, enlightening, builds rationally and logically to each of its points BUT (there's alway a "but")is a bit difficult to read. Also, as with ALL his books, Zecharia draws his concise conclusions by bringing the knowledge of many sciences together. It is a must read for anyone with an open mind and thirst for knowledge.As the chronicles tend to build on each other, the reader will find it more comfortable to read them in sequence: 12th Planet, Stairway to Heaven, Wars of Gods & Men, Lost Realms,When Time Began.
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Summary: Not such a stretch if you Think!
Review: Mr. Sitchin has nothing to gain by espousing pseudoscience or pseudohistory. He would only stand to lose. Ancient History as a discipline has been proclaimed true to a great extent by proclamation that the "ancients"told us all. This is all well and good as a baseline. I have no quarrel with Herodotus or Tacitus.
Read the bibliographies in this series. These ARE NOT the idle ramblings of a 'crank". If you truly pay attention, you will see the obvious scholarly work that has been done. Only the intellectually insecure will be intimidated and resort to common mockery. If nothing else, this should send you into deeper studies of the ancient Near East. You won't be sorry. This is thought provoking at the very least and definitely entertaining to the casual reader and the more imaginative history buffs. Look at and think about civilization, pre-Egyptian, pre-Indus Valley(?) and you will learn quite a bit. Better yet, you will be driven to learn more by yourself!
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Summary: Try to meet our ancestors
Review: Part II of the Earth Chronicles deals with some of the most monumental buildings on the Earth (pyramids, Jupiter's temple at Baalbek, sacred city of Heliopolis...) and it also gives explanations, why (and by whom) these buildings were built. It makes sense, because it is really quite unexplainable, why have buildings that followed that time deteriorated that much in terms of quality and size. It is obvious that people have learned something from outside but after part of the knowledge was lost, they were not capable of surpassing their predecessors. Sitchin claims that Baalbek and Sinai peninsula were spaceports of Gods. Pyramids were designed for directioning of spaceships as for precise measurements of the planet. This also explains the fact that all great pyramids are not inscribed while newer are. This assumptions are given on the basis of studying ancient texts, especially Epic of Gilgamesh who was claimed to be of semidivine origin and wanted to join Gods in Immortallity, but was finally bitterly disappointed as he found out that he should be invited in the immortal club as it was fact with the Utnapishtim and that immortality cannot be gained. Reading is really fascinating, not too scholarly, but certainly not pure fiction. Highly recommendable.
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Summary: Garbage
Review: Proves that if you keep an open mind people will throw all their garbage in it.
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Summary: Small print, Big ideas
Review: Sitchin's second effort is mainly an expansion on one of the central themes addressed in his first book, "The Twelfth Planet". A number of related subjects are discussed, the unifying theme being man's preoccupation with the concept of (and search for!) immortality. If you think about it, you have to wonder... where on EARTH could man have gotten the idea that such a thing as eternal youth could exist? Certainly there are no examples of immortality native to this planet. If you like Sitchin this book must not be missed...it is a prerequisite to thorough understanding of later volumes in the series. The print is rather small though, making the book a little more difficult to read.
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Summary: Small print, Big ideas
Review: Sitchin's second effort is mainly an expansion on one of the central themes addressed in his first book, "The Twelfth Planet". A number of related subjects are discussed, the unifying theme being man's preoccupation with the concept of (and search for!) immortality. If you think about it, you have to wonder... where on EARTH could man have gotten the idea that such a thing as eternal youth could exist? Certainly there are no examples of immortality native to this planet. If you like Sitchin this book must not be missed...it is a prerequisite to thorough understanding of later volumes in the series. The print is rather small though, making the book a little more difficult to read.
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Summary: Typical Sitchin reading
Review: Stair Way To Heaven is a typical Sitchin book; it's great. More talk about the Annunaki,pyramids and connecting legends and myths with those beings from niburu.
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Summary: Definitely one of his best.
Review: The second offering of Sitchin's landmark Earth Chronicles series,this book offers more startling revelations than the initial spark of the "12th Planet".Here,discussed in the same scholarly & well researched way the author is known for,with a personal twist,are musings on the fountain & dates of life,the pharaoh's journey to the afterlife(with stunning ancient drawings to document it),the riddle of the sphinx,the forgeries commited on the pyramids & many more.This book also afforded me a diff. view & a rising interest on Alexander The Great.The faults are the same,including the author's exuberant generalizations,but nevertheless is still a mind-bending & probable life-changing read.
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Summary: Definitely one of his best.
Review: The second offering of Sitchin's landmark Earth Chronicles series,this book offers more startling revelations than the initial spark of the "12th Planet".Here,discussed in the same scholarly & well researched way the author is known for,with a personal twist,are musings on the fountain & dates of life,the pharaoh's journey to the afterlife(with stunning ancient drawings to document it),the riddle of the sphinx,the forgeries commited on the pyramids & many more.This book also afforded me a diff. view & a rising interest on Alexander The Great.The faults are the same,including the author's exuberant generalizations,but nevertheless is still a mind-bending & probable life-changing read.
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Summary: DOCUMENTATION PLEASE
Review: You've read the orthodox, conventional, sanitized view of the past. Now read linguist and scholar Zecharia Sitchin for the rest of the story. Only he provides a framework in which all becomes intelligible.
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