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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2017 15:13:23 GMT
At one of my haunts I saw the old mass market paperback of this one for sale.
I am curious about it since it's mentioned in "The Thing" (1982), my favorite film of all time.
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Post by Carl LaFong on Aug 22, 2017 18:31:01 GMT
It's utter bobbins - like everything that eejit wrote.
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Post by vegalyra on Aug 22, 2017 21:33:39 GMT
It's one of those ancient civilization/UFO/occult type books that was in vogue in the late 1960's and 1970's. It and some of Alan Landsburg's books spawned the fairly long lived show "In Search Of..." hosted by Leonard Nimoy. Even if some of the speculation was very "out there" it's interesting and fun to read.
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Post by RiP, IMDb on Aug 23, 2017 3:58:46 GMT
At one of my haunts I saw the old mass market paperback of this one for sale.
I am curious about it since it's mentioned in "The Thing" (1982), my favorite film of all time.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Aug 23, 2017 4:17:20 GMT
Read like a novel and know it's not true and it's fine.
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Post by rateater on Aug 23, 2017 14:09:34 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2017 14:09:44 GMT
Oh, I'm sure the book is a great big steaming pile of hogwash. But as long as it's entertaining and a good read, that's all that matters to me. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2017 14:12:08 GMT
At one of my haunts I saw the old mass market paperback of this one for sale.
I am curious about it since it's mentioned in "The Thing" (1982), my favorite film of all time.
Any comments on it?
Palmer, one of the characters in Carpenters' "The Thing", has the following dialogue: "Childs? "Chariots of the Gods", man. They practically OWN South America. I mean, they taught the Incas everything they know."
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Post by BATouttaheck on Aug 23, 2017 14:33:17 GMT
Oh, I'm sure the book is a great big steaming pile of hogwash. But as long as it's entertaining and a good read, that's all that matters to me. That it is. When it was first published many took it as a truly "scientific" study and even today,some still do and will debate and argue all the points presented. |
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Post by RiP, IMDb on Aug 24, 2017 2:36:20 GMT
Are you sure it isn't The Thing (1951) aka The Thing from Another World, since it came-out in 1968?. Btw, I have the book right next to my keyboard. I got it recently from one of the small book stands around the city.
Palmer, one of the characters in Carpenters' "The Thing", has the following dialogue: "Childs? "Chariots of the Gods", man. They practically OWN South America. I mean, they taught the Incas everything they know."
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Post by Hairynosedwombat on Sept 7, 2017 4:40:55 GMT
At one of my haunts I saw the old mass market paperback of this one for sale.
I am curious about it since it's mentioned in "The Thing" (1982), my favorite film of all time.
Any comments on it? Von Daaniken gave me my main tool in my bull sh!t meter. Most of the stuff you read, you will go "gee whiz" about because you don't know anything about the topic. But there might be something you do know about, perhaps you have visited somewhere that Von Daaniken writes about, and you know he is making it all up. Then it is time to revisit all those "gee whiz" things he described and wonder if he made all of it up. Almost certainly. I went to a public lecture by an Egyptologist who tore strips off Von Daaniken. I particularly remember how Von Daaniken described pictures way underground at the Pyramids that "could only have been made by aliens with electric lights". The Egyptologist explained that he visited the same tunnel, where a guide stood at the top with a pile of polished metal sheets, which he placed at every turn of the tunnel to reflect sunlight all the way to the gallery. |
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