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3.73 AVERAGE
3.73 AVERAGE
challenging
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reflective
medium-paced
informative
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Needed an editor; at just over 500 pages, the same ideas could have been related in about 300. Things to lose: the slope of certain passageways in Egypt's pyramids, the verbatim conversations in later chapters, the ellipses, the italics as emphasis. Things to add: more diagrams or photos. Still, interesting thesis presented: the pyramids in Egypt and the Mayan/Incan ruins are related to the stars, origin tales are remarkably similar throughout the world and reference cataclysmic events, the Spanish are a-holes for burning almost ALL of the new world writings, Antarctica used to be tropical and was mapped by humans before suddenly and violently moving to the bottom of the world, and the Sphinx is much older than Egyptologists are willing to concede; what this all points to is that a very early and very advanced civilization once charted the heavens and built modern-accurate star charts with sophisticated methods. (I don't think I will attempt his second book which continues the theme and weighs in at 511 pages.)
While it was interesting every once in a while it just went off on a tangent of latitudes and longitudes and then I would zone out and then I'd have to like bring myself back to the story. But overall it wasn't bad
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This book was very interesting at the start and at the end, but the middle of the book was a bit repetitive and drawn out. I think about 150-200 pages could have been cut out, as some chapters just repeated previous points but just in more, sometimes unnecessary, detail.
Some of the theories were really interesting and definitely make you think twice about the accepted, traditional view of civilisation, especially when presented with evidence that seems fairly sound. I will be reading the rest of Hancock’s books to see if he builds on this evidence. The photographs and diagrams were also a really good addition to the text and helped to visualise some of the complicated structures being talked about.
Overall, a really interesting book but the middle chapters are just a bit too much effort.
Silly book with silly alternate history ideas. Got an extra star because the audio book was good to fall asleep too.
Recommended if you enjoy ancient aliens adjacent shenanigans and won't get too mad when he pretends historians can't explain things they most certainly can explain.
Includes a lengthy description of getting conned by a tour guide.
Recommended if you enjoy ancient aliens adjacent shenanigans and won't get too mad when he pretends historians can't explain things they most certainly can explain.
Includes a lengthy description of getting conned by a tour guide.
adventurous
informative
mysterious
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medium-paced