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adultism's review
1.0
I could not make it through this book. At all.
I wanted something interesting and more realistic, scientific to read as a break between my series marathoning and I grabbed this book because I knew how much my father loved it. And considering me and him have similar tastes about history and stuff like that, I thought I was going to enjoy it.
Boy, was I wrong.
I got 50 pages in before closing the book and setting it down because my brain was screaming at me to spare him from the torture. Daniken made everything so complicated and tangled, I couldn't decipher where it began and where it ended. Not only that, his writing is incredibly boring without bringing anything concrete to the table. It's just random fact after fact that has nothing to do with the topic and it just leaves you overwhelmed with information that isn't even that important.
Every few paragraphs we get his own opinions about it, where it's just him asking random questions in an attempt to make the reader think.
Spoiler alert: it doesn't work.
Incredibly boring writing on such an interesting and fun topic, which should have left me at the edge of my seat, hungrily flipping over the next page. It's a shame because I would love to know more about the topic but I just cannot make it through anymore, without my brain exploding.
Maybe the rest of the book becomes more interesting and less tangled, I wouldn't know. I only made it 50 pages in, but I am not planning on continuing. Maybe in a far far far future, but I doubt it.
I wanted something interesting and more realistic, scientific to read as a break between my series marathoning and I grabbed this book because I knew how much my father loved it. And considering me and him have similar tastes about history and stuff like that, I thought I was going to enjoy it.
Boy, was I wrong.
I got 50 pages in before closing the book and setting it down because my brain was screaming at me to spare him from the torture. Daniken made everything so complicated and tangled, I couldn't decipher where it began and where it ended. Not only that, his writing is incredibly boring without bringing anything concrete to the table. It's just random fact after fact that has nothing to do with the topic and it just leaves you overwhelmed with information that isn't even that important.
Every few paragraphs we get his own opinions about it, where it's just him asking random questions in an attempt to make the reader think.
Spoiler alert: it doesn't work.
Incredibly boring writing on such an interesting and fun topic, which should have left me at the edge of my seat, hungrily flipping over the next page. It's a shame because I would love to know more about the topic but I just cannot make it through anymore, without my brain exploding.
Maybe the rest of the book becomes more interesting and less tangled, I wouldn't know. I only made it 50 pages in, but I am not planning on continuing. Maybe in a far far far future, but I doubt it.
strong_extraordinary_dreams's review
2.0
Well, most of this is Erich complaining about the troubles he had with a bunch of Argentinians.
The rest is about libraries of books inscribed on copper, brass and other metals.
The problems are
(1) he takes whatever is written is some (nutty, ancient, corrupted, incomplete, doctored) religious text as the detailed truth about X, Y and Z, and about whatever else.
(2) A religious text line "was not of men's hands" becomes, in his reasoning, ` extraterrestrial hands ` (well, of course), which is - well, of course - flying saucers.
There does seem to be something here, but this is a poor, poor account.
The rest is about libraries of books inscribed on copper, brass and other metals.
The problems are
(1) he takes whatever is written is some (nutty, ancient, corrupted, incomplete, doctored) religious text as the detailed truth about X, Y and Z, and about whatever else.
(2) A religious text line "was not of men's hands" becomes, in his reasoning, ` extraterrestrial hands ` (well, of course), which is - well, of course - flying saucers.
There does seem to be something here, but this is a poor, poor account.
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