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Title: The Stairway to Heaven (Earth Chronicles, No. 2) by Zecharia Sitchin ISBN: 0-380-63339-6 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 April, 1999 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.59 (17 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Shame on Avon and Amazon.com
Comment: Do not buy the mass market edition. Shame on Avon Publishing!!! The type is so small that it is virtually unreadable, and any graphics, maps or diagrams cannot be distinguished. Pay the extra money to buy the edition published for Earthlings, not for Lilliputians.
Most people will be drawn to the cheaper version offered by this on-line retailer, so shame on the on-line retailer for even carrying this edition. I am not exaggerating. The book is UNREADABLE.
Rating: 1
Summary: If only I could read it....
Comment: I might like this book, but I'll never know because it's in 4 point type--the size of footnotes. It's totally unreadable! Shame on Avon for cheaping out to cram this into 328 pages by making the type microscopic. Buy some more paper and print a readable book, people!!...
Rating: 4
Summary: Man's search for the immortality of the gods
Comment: In this second entry in the Earth Chronicles series, Sitchin focuses on man's eternal and perpetual search for immortality and ties his findings in with his theories of ancient Sumer and the Annunaki who originally colonized earth. In particular, he discusses Alexander the Great's desperate search for a way to escape an early death as well as Gilgamesh's epic search for everlasting life; more importantly, he provides a map of their quests, identifying their most important destinations with the ancient Sumerian sites he wrote about in The 12th Planet. Basically, the ultimate destinations of the men of legend corresponded to the areas from which the Annunaki journeyed back and forth between earth, their orbiting spacecraft, and their home planet. Having described an intricate grid system accounting for the specific locations of the ancient cities both before and after the Deluge, he makes some fascinating arguments. I was most struck by his conclusion that the new, post-Deluge space port was actually Jerusalem. As always, Sitchin incorporates Biblical texts into his story, revealing compelling connections between the books of the Bible and the ancient records of the earliest Middle Eastern cultures.
I found myself plodding to some degree through the first half of the book, even laying the book aside for a few days, but the latter sections here are quite interesting because they focus on ancient Egypt. Sitchin's discussions of the ancient Egyptian monuments, particularly the Great Pyramids at Giza are enlightening and fascinating. He forcibly argues that the pyramids were never meant to serve as burial places of ancient Egyptians and that the Great Pyramids and the majestic Sphinx were built long before Khufu, Chefren, and other pharaohs of the 4th Dynasty came to power. Egyptologists dispute this conclusion, of course, but the evidence as presented by Sitchin and other scholars is quite strong on this point. Sitchin lays waste to the only real evidence we have that Khufu built the Great Pyramid. The masons' markings found in the chambers above the King's Chamber in the Great Pyramid purportedly show that Khufu was the builder, but Sitchin puts forth a very convincing argument that those marks were forged (and rather unconvincingly in fact) by an unscrupulous pseudo-archaeologist.
I try to read these books with an open mind. I can't say if Sitchin is correct or not in his theories, but I can say that he breathes life into an ancient world I would otherwise know very little about, and he tells a fascinating story in a very engaging manner.
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Title: The Lost Realms : Book IV of the Earth Chronicles by Zecharia Sitchin ISBN: 0380758903 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 February, 1990 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: When Time Began: : Book V of the Earth Chronicles by Zecharia Sitchin ISBN: 0380770717 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 05 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Cosmic Code : Book VI of the Earth Chronicles by Zecharia Sitchin ISBN: 0380801574 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 December, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Genesis Revisited by Zecharia Sitchin ISBN: 0380761599 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 October, 1990 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Divine Encounters: A Guide to Visions, Angels and Other Emissaries by Zecharia Sitchin ISBN: 0380780763 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: January, 1996 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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