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Summary: Food For Inquisitive Minds
Review: Based on 12 years of serious, professional, and objective research, this book analyzes the mysterious happenings of the Bermuda Triangle in great detail. Unlike many authors who tend to be biased, Gian Quasar deals with this fascinating subject objectively. The author does not claim to have all the answers, only that there is MUCH that we do not know.
This truly thought provoking book is a must read for anyone who has a curious mind and wants to at least try to comprehend one of the world's greatest unsolved mystery, the mystery of the Devil's Triangle.
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Summary: Au Revoir, Larry Kusche: Your Day Is Done
Review: A number of years ago I read the much-ballyhooed, "pragmatically authoritative", so-called expose of the "truth" about the Bermuda Triangle...Larry Kusche's "The Bermuda Triangle--Mystery Solved". It was an interesting read,one that reaffirmed my opinion that a lot of imagination and need-to-believe psychology was at work in regard to many things people thought had or hadn't happened in the real world. In his book Kusche hit a target like that a few times..enough to pop a "believer's" balloon..here and there. But I never got the feeling that this librarian sitting at a desk in Arizona had REALLY "put the wood" to the Bermuda Triangle. Oh, he'd scored a hit or two or three on some individual cases, but...despite his smug, self-congratulatory little "Solved" title...he'd never really come even CLOSE to a knockout punch on the overall mystery of the "Big T" (even though the CSICOP crowd, the Schermers, Nickells, and Randis would shriek for decades that he HAD). No, the book left me with the same kind of "you missed it, bubba" feeling the infamous 1969 Condon Report had when it wrote off UFOs as tomfoolery while BASING the report conclusions on evidence that was stronger FOR UFO reality than AGAINST it (and that never sat well with THIS ex-army intelligence analyst who had once SEEN a UFO make a fool out of an Air Force F-102 pilot). No, Kusche's book had too much patronizing "pooh pooh-ing" in it and tried a bit too hard to pass itself off as being stronger in its debunking content than it really was.The guy didn't debunk NEAR as many REAL triangle mysteries as he evidently wanted readers to THINK he had. Mostly he set up weak and iffy "straw man" cases and then "punched" THEM out.( He TRIED with Flight 19, but research SINCE 1976 indicates he really didn't K.O. THAT contender either).
Also didn't help that he used way too many newspaper snippets as his primary source material. I know very well how the media gets things WRONG when they "tell the story". Very often they tell "A" story, but not "THE" story (I say this because I was myself "mis-contextualized" in a tv news story once and know how the game is played). Also, having the benefit of a very slight friendship with the late famed pilot-writer Martin Caidin, gave me an "in" to the OTHER side of the story. Marty was well versed , and well traveled, in the triangle...and caught there once in a hair-raisingly weird incident in a Catalina flying boat (read his book "Ghosts of the Air")..and he advised that Kusche was "full of it".
Too long "That" book...Kusche's...has held sway in the public mind. It "shows" that the triangle is just a "silly maritime legend" to be snorted at and laughed at. Well, Larry Boy, your day is done. YOU are done. Gian Quasar has written the Triangle book to end all Triangle books and he has done it admirably. His
"Into the Bermuda Triangle" does a demolition job on the agenda-driven debunkery of the 'anti" crowd. He dishes REAL info using REAL invesigation reports (not snippets of drek from the "Tampa Tribune"or otherwise), and he puts forth his data in a manner that leaves the Negative guys in a real "bind" for comeback. THIS book is like a great episode of the old "Perry Mason" t.v. series, where the D.A., Burger, has set up this elaborate case of how-what-where-when-&-why to "prove" Mason's client the guilty party, and then Mason gets up and blows the prosecution's case completely out of the water, showing that they have eveything skewed, misperceived, misrepresented, and just plain WRONG.
This new book is "Into the Bermuda Triangle" by Gian Quasar. It's only failing that I can see is that he uses too little of Martin Caidin's Catalina PBY incident as a "for instance", but that can be forgiven in lieu of all the other terrific evidence he has amassed and arrayed. Consider Gian Quasar as Perry Mason.
He does good in the role.
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Summary: Must Read for Inquiring Mnds!
Review: Even if you're a skeptic or the cynical, this is a fascinating non-fiction book you should read. Charles Berlitz "The Bermuda Triangle" that came out during the seventies is still one of my favorite studies of this mysterious and sinister area of the sea. In "Beyond the Bermuda Triangle" the author brings us the latest mysteries and bizarre events in the Triangle--all backed up by scrupulous research and investigation. With brilliant daring, the author also correlates some of the mystery to our universe and the real secret of UFOs. He weaves all of this together in fascinating detail. The fact that hundreds of ships and planes have mysteriously vanished since the first "Bermuda Triangle" appeared in the seventies should chill us all. And wonder what is behind this everyday nightmare.
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Summary: Must Read for Inquiring Mnds!
Review: Even if you're a skeptic or the cynical, this is a fascinating non-fiction book you should read. Charles Berlitz "The Bermuda Triangle" that came out during the seventies is still one of my favorite studies of this mysterious and sinister area of the sea. In "Beyond the Bermuda Triangle" the author brings us the latest mysteries and bizarre events in the Triangle--all backed up by scrupulous research and investigation. With brilliant daring, the author also correlates some of the mystery to our universe and the real secret of UFOs. He weaves all of this together in fascinating detail. The fact that hundreds of ships and planes have mysteriously vanished since the first "Bermuda Triangle" appeared in the seventies should chill us all. And wonder what is behind this everyday nightmare.
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Summary: The "Best book on the subject"
Review: I am happy to leave this review here about this book to clarify for those who are considering buying it and would appreciate a mature review. After reading it I am not surprised that Hawaii's Mike Buck (The Mike Buck Show) announced on the air that there would be a "groundswell" to get this book, nor that Whitley Strieber declared it to be the "best book written on the Bermuda Triangle." I can see why the Coast Guard contacted the author and is even considering revising or retracting their very dated opinion on the topic.
Let me clarify that this book is attempting to call attention to a real problem. It is not about accidents, but about DISAPPEARANCES that have no explanation. The summaries of incidents in this book are taken directly from official NTSB, US Coast Guard, Navy, and Air Force accident investigation reports, plus bulletins from Lloyd's of London-- NOT from some 30 year old book based on old newspapers. The first chapter makes it clear that the Triangle is not traveled much more than other areas, such as off New England, the Med. Sea and the North Sea. Coast Guard stats between 1st Coast Guard district (New England) and the 7th Coast Guard district (Triangle) show that 20 aircraft have vanished in fair weather in the last decade as opposed to 4 or so off New England in foul weather, yet the calls for assistance are nearly the same (10,000 and 9,000), in each district indicating similar amount of travel and trouble encountered in both places, yet disappearances are way out of proportion in the Triangle.
Over 80 aircraft have vanished in the Triangle in the last 25 years, and each one mentioned in the book is documented by the National Transportation Safety Board. One need only browse their index of months on their web site to count the aircraft. NOTHING has vanished over the Rocky Mountains in the same period of time. Stats on how many have disappeared over The Great Lakes in the last 40 years make an interesting comparison. About 30 have vanished there, giving the area the reputation of the "Great Lakes Triangle. Yet over 125 have vanished in the Triangle, many of them in truly unusual circumstances.
Unexplained IS a mystery to those whose brains do not swim in alcohol, and mystery is directing us to unexplored territory where we may find some of the greatest discoveries of the future. The book is so well documented, only a real loony fringe scoffer would try and represent it otherwise. Perhaps that is why the media is slightly tongue-tied over this book. It is not what anybody would expect from as subject that is often considered "politically incorrect."
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Summary: Important Read
Review: I can't believe this book has only warranted 6 reviews so far. Mine will be short and sweet - this is an excellent and absorbing read. I didn't want to take my copy back to the library.
After reading this book, I'm convinced that our planet has a lot more to show us, regarding it's past and our future.
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Summary: Important Read
Review: I can't believe this book has only warranted 6 reviews so far. Mine will be short and sweet - this is an excellent and absorbing read. I didn't want to take my copy back to the library.
After reading this book, I'm convinced that our planet has a lot more to show us, regarding it's past and our future.
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Summary: The Return of a Myth
Review: I guess you can't keep a great story down. Charles Berlitz may be dead but his popularization of the myth of the Bermuda Triangle mystery lives on in Gian J. Quasar's book 'Into the Bermuda Triangle'. [...] It is very well written and sums up nicely many of the stories that have made the Bermuda Triangle mystery so appealing. Charles Berlitz 's seminal book was a best seller in it's time but he wasn't much of a writer. Mr Quasar makes up for it with a well paced and exciting book that reads very well. Of course he makes the same mistakes that Berlitz made; selective facts, misleading data, pseudo-science, and suggestive language. Unforgivable however is his dissing of the only real attempt to gather and present data, Larry Kusche's 'Bermuda Triangle Mystery - Solved'. So for those who are really interested in the 'mystery', read Mr. Kusche's book, old that it is, and keep in mind that Mr Kusche labels each story in the so-called mystery as solved, not enough data, or unsolved. And as you ponder this mystery, keep these facts in mind. 1. The Bermuda Triangle (the actual location of which changes from book to book) is the most heavily traveled section of ocean in the world.
2. More aircraft have disappeared over the Rockies than the Bermuda Triangle.
3. Just because an event is unexplained does not mean that it is a mystery, just unexplained. If you are really in pursuit of the truth, you won't find it here.
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Summary: Buy it, borrow it... just read it
Review: I have had my nose in this book all weekend -- it's been a long time since I've found such a fascinating read. I was in the mood for some science fiction but here's yet another reminder that truth (even when posited hypothetically) is not only stranger, but so much more interesting than fiction. Wow! Do yourself a favor and read this book. Even if you remain skeptical you will be introduced to mind-blowing philosophical fodder for your next deep conversation.
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Summary: An Engaging Read!!!!
Review: I have to say that this is really a fascinating and absorbing book. I just finished it, and although I don't usually leave any opinion, I felt this book needed a little. It is really not what one might think. It is not a collection of disconnected "tales of the sea." But rather it is a detective work into a true mystery that may have ramifications for the whole world. What makes it riveting is that it is not based on rumors or rehashing old sea stories. Nor is it a collection of popular ideas. The idea this subject is "occult" or "new age" is quickly banished by Coast Guard and National Transportation Safety Board statistics. I think this is what actually sets the stage. The reader is quickly directed to a real world of unexplained disappearances rather than "tales of the sea" based on unconfirmed old rumors. Quasar's style is so concise, the documented nature of the circumstances quickly grips one's attention. I was seriously disturbed by the transcription of an FAA mayday describing a "weird object," but even more disturbed when the author continues with case after case of other incidents of bizarre disappearances. He does not linger on any particular incident, but rather keeps a quick tempo throughout so that a cohesiveness continues to build.
I think what really makes the book shocking--and hence absorbing--is how the author enters this mystery from the position of the official records. The theories of UFOs, electromagnetic anomalies and time-space warps becomes more interesting after seeing the evidence contained in the NTSB reports. This is a book where the evidence is allowed to speak. I was profoundly disturbed by the actual number of missing planes and ships, and even more disturbed that only a small percentage are ever publicly reported. There is a greater purpose to the book which sets it apart. Most of the book is devoted to a quest for a solution. This is where I really became engrossed. Because his research turned up so much incontrovertible evidence for the bizarre, it is possible to take a captivating journey through some of the most sensational possibilities rather than regarding them as mere popular stories or psuedo-science. Although some might be considered older theories (like UFOs, Atlantis), Quasar remains focused only on the facts, and guides the reader into some refreshing new approaches to these concepts. His facts introduce angles on these phenomena which may be as groundbreaking today as von Daniken's were to the 1970s, and actually lead the entire UFO and Atlantis movements concretely away from how they are regarded today into far more productive discussions. I like how they are not just suggestions thrown out to the reader. The inter-twining course they follow leads one back to greater mystery, but paradoxically one is discovering something very real along the way. Quasar's book is both a compelling expose into a real life mystery, a journey of true discovery, and is like the dissertation of a true life detective laying before his audience all the evidence. The profoundness of Quasar's style of writing I think really elevates the book to the level of a serious thesis about something that may have greater ramifications for the whole world. Although only once in a while can one detect his frustration or excitement, he maintains a refreshingly objective narrative throughout-- something I think is rare today, and something that further conveys how seriously he takes the subject and its ramifications. After reading the book, I have to agree.
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