Uriel's Machine : Uncovering the Secrets of Stonehenge, Noah's Flood, and the Dawn of Civilization

from DinadansFriend

A worthy successor to Immanuel Velikovsky, this team has concocted a rich stew of the half-baked and sinister. I love a good conspiracy theory, and this one has thrown in an interesting architectural tour of a Scottish folly. Worth the read, but don't trust it one little bit!

from liveinlibrary

A brief nod to fact-checking would have been nice in this otherwise entertaining book. As with other books of this kind -- speculative history -- it makes a fun read when treated as science fiction/fantasy. There are too many obvious errors (all of which have been detailed in other, more comprehe...

from miketroll

This is a fascinating exploration of prehistoric (indeed, antediluvian) technology. Mainstream historians still hold that modern civilisation represents the peak of human development since our emergence from the Stone Age 5,000 years ago. They may feel uncomfortable with the premise that human ci...

from davis22star

It's terrific when a non fiction book reads like fiction, especially good fiction. This book reads like a mystery and a thriller and although the ideas presented are mostly speculative, they are also eminently plausible.

from RamtopsDweller

A bad book. Don't trust anything they write about archaeology or geology (or probably anything else) until you check it for yourself in a reputable source. They get dates wrong, facts wrong, show that they don't actually know the material, etc. For instance, they ascribe the Scottish tsunami to a...