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 enlarge | Author: Lynn Picknett
Publisher: Berkley Trade
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  27 reviews
Sales Rank: 170564
Media: Paperback
Edition: Reprint
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 448
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6 x 1.3
ISBN: 0425176584
Dewey Decimal Number: 001.9
EAN: 9780425176580
ASIN: 0425176584
Publication Date: September 1, 2001
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 It DID have an index September 15, 2005
17 out of 19 found this review helpful
I read this book and found it quite interesting, if at times a bit hard to keep straight due to the diversity of the materials provided. But I did find it useful as a portrayal of a group, or groups, of rather spooky "New Agers", in some type of common effort with maverick archeologists, Christian fundamentalists, intelligence-connected types, etc., whose agendas appear quite murky. The authors admit they do not quite know what these connections mean, but the connections do indeed seem to be there, and I found the account fascinating, if in the end still quite puzzling.
Other readers, as judged from the other reviews here, clearly have widely varying views on the value of the book, and so it evidently will not appear to everyone.
One shortcoming cited scornfully by a couple of earlier reviewers dealt with the lack of an index. I bought the original, hardcover British version of the book when in first appeared, and it had a 20-page index, which made the book much easier to use. The publishers of the US reprint evidently have a rather low opinion of American readers, and thus elected to delete the index, presumably in order to save a few cents per volume. This strikes me as despicable, and readers (or potential readers) should be aware that the actual authors of the book indeed included a very extensive index.
 I'm convinced April 19, 2005
12 out of 22 found this review helpful
I'm convinced, but then I usually am! I read Graham Hancocks book Fingerprints of the Gods and was convinced as well! This book basically bashes Hanccock and similiar authors. Its always intresting to read another viewpoint. SOmething I enjoyed reading was the time Picket spent researching the people behind the ancient anscestors movement. There are thousands of books with this theme out there to choose from but I found this one to be especially intresting. It kind of goes against the grain. I had the updated version which explained why the world didn;t "end" at 2000 so that helped some of the natural sceptesicim that you may expirience! Would I recomend this book to my friends? Yes. It is entertaining and that is my main goal in reading any book.In addiiton you learn some intresting estoric history.
Mission Accomplished April 4, 2005
14 out of 30 found this review helpful
You might as well collect together all your UFO and related conspiracy books, make a big pile out back, douse it with gasoline, and set it ablaze... this book included.
Don't get me wrong, I really liked this book. It's packed with names and dates and serious questions about a lot of the people currently selling snake oil out there. It's also laced with some of the most absurd ideas imaginable, kind of wrecking the veracity of the "good stuff." In fact all the books on this and similar subjects are like that. Hey, if any of this crazy stuff is true a lot of very sharp people are going to make darned certain that information on the subject is pure mud. Even if it isn't someone will still make mud of the topic.
Worse, if there's no conspiracy to make mud of the topic, it'll be made into mud anyway since there's no peer review or fact checking going on in this realm. Facts?! What publisher would want that day to come--a whole niche market would evaporate overnight! Honestly, conspiracy stuff is a lose/lose situation. If Dante had lived today he would have created a level of Hades where people chased after conspiracies for all eternity (Riding a UFO in search of a UFO). Better to let some alleged Conspiracy have its way than to be led around by the nose. Sure they win that way, but believe it or not by ignoring them you win too. It's a spiritual kind of thing; the Devil can't come in unless you invite him in.
On the other hand this book was a lot of fun to read and it made me wonder what the heck's going on at the Great Pyramid these days (Am I the only person who thinks the Pyramids are the dumbest things around--all that work and they don't do anything useful. Give me one good Roman aqueduct any day!). There's tons of info here that you don't seem to be able to find elsewhere. For me books like this inhabit a realm between fiction and non-fiction. Despite what I've written I have no plans to stop reading things like this. Maybe we should create a third category?
Conspiracy Theory? February 18, 2005
6 out of 10 found this review helpful
I like conspiracy theory books that when you've finished reading them you wonder if it really was a conspiracy theory book.
Its well written, well researched and very interesting. I thought it spent way too much time dropping names and I dont really care what the chairman of the Egyption Tourism Bourd is called so when they only mention the title once then drop his name three chapters later I dont know who they're talking about.
Great book with confusing talk of the people involved.
 Silly book December 13, 2004
5 out of 40 found this review helpful
And I still can't find those little aliens :)
Really, there is no conspiracy. And there certainly ain't no extraterrestrial life. The only mysteries of Ancient Egypt is why current Egypt is still so backwards.
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