Review: The 12th Planet
Editorial Review - Kirkus ReviewsA heavyweight entry into the booming fictional-scholarship market that traffics in Bermuda Triangles, gods from outer space, pyramid power, and the like. The game is fill-in-the-gaps: where professional knowledge stops and mysteries persist, the fearless rush in with literal-minded, all-embracing explanations. Religion and myth once held sway in this realm, but since their apparent rout by scientific method, enterprising speculators have been producing skeleton keys to unlock the ancient teachings' true sense. Sitchin, a zealous private investigator into man's origins, plays the game splendidly, making von Daniken look like a piker. A clever writer, he's mastered the pretenses of scholarship: a crush of evidential texts and pictures, obscure German sources, translating coups, maps, charts, complex calculations, arcane information, etc. His domain is the ancient Near East, the cradle of civilization, and he claims to prove that Homo sapiens was created there by ancient astronauts who first rocketed to earth 445,000 years ago from a twelfth planet, which orbits into our universe every 3600 years. The Old Testament and other Near Eastern texts provide the detailed codes for discovering how our universe was constituted and how these ""gods of Heaven and Earth,"" emissaries of the twelve planet-gods, recurrently visited earth and caused such sudden bursts of advanced civilization as Sumer. As preterite science fiction, it's a dazzling performance.
Review: The 12th Planet (Earth Chronicles #1)
User Review - Michael Soros - GoodreadsI don't have much of an interest in this topic really having found over the years that these theories tend to fizzle out and developments in other disciplines such as archaeology, linguistics, physics ... Read full review
Review: The 12th Planet (Earth Chronicles #1)
User Review - Steven Stencil - GoodreadsDamn good book, must read and youtube watch. Read full review
Review: The 12th Planet (Earth Chronicles #1)
User Review - Dhiraj Sharma - GoodreadsThis book propagates the belief that life on earth originated from extraterrestrials who visited earth around 4000 BC in their fiery rockets (read spaceships). The author explains in detail about ... Read full review
Review: The 12th Planet (Earth Chronicles #1)
User Review - Beth Klingler - GoodreadsI had a discussion with a friend a few weeks before reading this about how you have to filter through what people tell you, and that half of it will be truth and half embellishment, so you need to ... Read full review
Review: The 12th Planet (Earth Chronicles #1)
User Review - David Agranoff - GoodreadsWhy did I do this to myself. Read full review
Review: The 12th Planet (Earth Chronicles #1)
User Review - Cody - GoodreadsGreat read. Looking forward to the rest of the 'earth chronicles'. Whether we want to believe or not - the facts are there, we can choose for ourselves what we want to filter out as fact or not. I ... Read full review
Review: The 12th Planet (Earth Chronicles #1)
User Review - Rob - GoodreadsAlright folks, as I've become interested in the idea behind Sitchin's outlandish sounding assertions, which I was introduced to through the show Ancient Aliens, I've become not really so much a ... Read full review
Review: The 12th Planet (Earth Chronicles #1)
User Review - Sonny - GoodreadsThis is one of those hard books to really pin down - make no mistake, Sitchin is a nutcase of the highest order and his theories, whilst interesting, are about as far fetched as the notion that alien ... Read full review
Review: The 12th Planet (Earth Chronicles #1)
User Review - TailFeather - GoodreadsI love myths, and cosmology. So on that scale this was great. But Sitchin would have to work with the worlds leading astronomers, anthropologists, geologists, etc, and have solid, empirical proof for me to believe these stories. Read full review
