This is the incredible force of his book. Reality, history, science, all marvelously thrown into question with the construction of a story that fits all the pieces together, seemlessly even, and makes us wonder why this story, for some unexplicable reason is any less legitimate.

that, is reality requestioned. and for anyone interested, I personally recommend reading Jean Baudrillard.


Sitchin is an asstounding prophet!   December 20, 1999
 13 out of 49 found this review helpful

I wonder why Sitchin doesn't mention the pink unicorns living in present day Cuba, which we all know devoloped from the primitive, beige, seed unicorns left in Antarctica by the friendly space people all those years ago. They escaped from there, of course, when the giant ice sheet broke free and flooded the earth. Before that, as anyone with half a brain knows, they were the draft animals of choice on the 12th planet. And unfortunately for you and me, but fortunately for Sitchin, there are quite a few folks wandering around today with only half a brain. His books are instructive as landmarks on how gullible the human race can be. They can be read as dark comedys on what suckers we are. Sitchin, his disciples, and many others, almost constitute a kind of scientific evidence, in and of themselves. Mankind is still extremely gullible; we have yet to train our overlarge primate brains against self-delusion. We still often tend to fall for wishful fantasies, when reality and truth are our goals. Sitchin, etc. are examples that we as a species still have a long way to go. But let us each, at least hope that mankind may one day be a bit more rational and less delusional; some time in the future.


Genesis Revisited: Next Stop--Nabiru.   November 23, 1999
 41 out of 52 found this review helpful

I am an amateur astronomer, so I was very interested as well as concerned when I first started to read this book. To start off, I agree with the premise we are not the only beings out there, (or even within our solar system). But, his knowledge of Ancient Sumerian does nothing for his astronomy. For one thing,Uranus & Neptune & Pluto & Charon(Plutos moon-oh yes, it has one) are not made of H2O, but of Methane, Ammonia & other very toxic gases. Uranus was indeed known in ancient times, & there is the possibility its phases (like Venus) were viewed. There are several Egyptian & Babylonian & Greek & Chinese astronomy charts that show it moving across the sky, although in some cultures it was not thought of as a planet. After all, there was no such thing as our infamous-- Light Pollution. The other idea of Nabiru being twice the orbit of Pluto, & the planet not only being there, but viable for life, is unlikely in the extreme. Although, as Pioneer I & II and Voyager I & II showed, truth is usually stranger than fiction. He does though save his best for last, especially his comments on the unusual features of Mars. I truly wish it would show ancient pyramids with compounds of jet fighters & all sorts of alien apparatus & the Face! My lord, what a Face! This book is a little outdated, as the real Face showed up recently under the Mars Surveyor. It did not look like anyone I would care to know. But all in all, what he does do is get a lot of people excited to start looking into astronomy,(NASA has a great web site by the way, and you can download lots of incredible pictures, from Hubble and others) religion & our past. That is not a bad thing. And it is interesting, that the further into the past we go, the more advanced mankind was. Like many readers I am sure, it was difficult to put down. One piece of advice, he is so enthusiastic about his subject, and the reader can get very carried away, so .... keep your head. As one famous British Astronomer is reported to have stated, Every self-respecting Alien, should turn left at Pluto and keep right on going.


Indeed it does make you wonder.   November 5, 1999
 5 out of 34 found this review helpful

Indeed it does make you wonder. It makes you wonder how, in 1999, people can waste their money on this trash that insults the intelligence.