The Martians Have Landed! (Paperback)

from Janine2011

The wait was long for this book. I enjoyed it but didnt love it. Some of the hoaxes were not driven by the media... such as the internet ones. Some of it was hard to read and some of them weren't given enough space. Most of them I had not heard off. I am finding it hard to write this review becau...

from annesion

I have to say that in many ways I wanted to like this book. I think that the authors covered a broad range of topics that included some very well-known to virtually unknown panics and hoaxes. In my opinion it may be the wide range that left me wanting more. The individual chapters were very short...

from TheBoltChick

The Martians Have Landed is something of a critique on the press and media. This could have been a wonderfully entertaining book, exposing hoaxes in a fun way. Unfortunately the writing is very uneven. Several chapters are written by those other than the authors. Some of the stories were interest...

from NewsieQ

When I started reading this book, I thought the hoaxes and panics featured would be mostly 19th Century and involve fantastic stories nobody today would believe, written by reporters for unreliable tabloids. Was I ever wrong! Although the "batmen" on the moon and Martians in New Jersey were chron...

from figre

What hurts this book the most is the inconsistency. In some instances, the incidents described are given very brief assessment- two or three pages. In others, there is much more detail about what. In some instances, there is a historical description of what happens. In others, it is as though the...