Customer Reviews:
 Great book July 17, 2008
This is an excellent book. It is very indept. It is hard to put down, but can also overload your brain.
Outstanting July 11, 2008
Don't let the bad publicity against Mr. Sitchin influence your mind.
Many jealous people and especially failed writers hate him.
We all understand that.
There is a person in America who asked the authorities to put him in jail.
Crazy!
Only in America people massacre others with dirty words,
personality assassination and personal hatred. What they do?
They are incapable of writing successful books
so they began to throw dirt from their mouth
and snake-style criticism.
Mr. Sitchin is a remarkable writer.
Respected all over the world.
I collect all his books.
S. Mahdi, Cairo, Egypt.
 LINDE July 6, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
An interesting but speculative view of galactic/planetary history. I found it extreamly long winded and tedious reading.
Pioneering Work!! May 3, 2008
Consider Dr. Sitchin the godfather of alternative archeology. He dares to explore the impossible, the mystique, the risque, the controvesial and he put his spin on it with a powerful intellect and a perfect luingistic command. His books are spatial-historical encyclopedias and you will enjoy this book. A rich variety of topics from the very depth of ancient history brought back to us under a new scientific microscope. Really fascinating journey. Read it!
 Stimulating but Frustrating April 14, 2008
Ancient Sumeria is without doubt one of the most neglected areas of historical research. In schools, it is merely glossed over. Yet the evidence that Sumeria was the foundation of today's civilization is overwhelming.
The reasons for this are probably connected to scholarly discomfort at what we have actually discovered about Sumeria. In other words, it doesn't fit our cherished presuppositions - theological, cosmological, anthropological, ethnological, scientific, and artistic. Enter Sitchin to stir things up.
Although he is much more of a scholar than Erich Von Daniken, Sitchin's premise of astronaut extraterrestrials who created humankind thru genetic manipulation, clearly benefitted from the earlier groundwork laid by Chariots of The Gods et al.
No matter how many times I read over his paragraphs, Sitchin only reads or translates the ancient texts as though they were courtoom depositions. Dry facts only. This is so patently absurd that it undermines the credibility of his thesis. So ancient scribes did not use metaphor, allusion, or symbol to express their message.
So rather than attempting to decipher the symbolism, Sitchin interprets all of it literally. Likewise, the biblical texts. Or at least, the texts that he selects - the ones that fit.
Mark Gibbs
Author, The Virgin and The Priest
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