needs more factual miterial
585238
I'm not sure but i don't remeber about learning anything about the "Book of Amem Ra" but every thing else was GREAT thanks for a great movie and i can't wait for it to be under my christmas tree
P.S. please tell Brenden that i think  he is my favorite acter and he did exelent!
3897487
The author'a writing style and the topic keeps the readers interest going. However, the author needs to do a better fact check, showing a tendency to either roll over events & incidents with a superficial knowledge or exaggerate incidents and outcomes.
Overall, a nice read but not an authoritative book. I will not use this book as a reference.
637749
I applaud the efforts of Ralph Ellis.  However, more details and more specifics are needed to draw accurate conclusions.  The author has correctly noted that there is the obvious connection between the Hebrews and the Egyptions, but the specifics and accurate identifications are somewhat off-base.  Interested readers should invest in the books " Moses and Akhenaten" and "The Hebrew Pharoahs of Egypt" both written by Ahmed Osman.
2101234
As a person who has a great interest in this period of time because my family fought on both sides,some in the itallian ss,other in the us army airforce in the pacific.i read this book open minded.  i did this because recent research has proven though accustic analysis and DNA testing that the hiteler suicide bunker story is absolutely false.and so any new information would be interesting to read to find out what happened to hitler.
  one thing i noticed about this book. it gives lots of historical facts about ww2 organizations and people,however,none of them are about adolf hitler and eva hitler escaping to any place on the planet.  what the author does,is take facts...and link them together with no supporting evidence.  for instance. we know for a fact,that at least two U-boats ended up in argenitna 2-3 months after the war in europe ended, and we know that several famouse wanted nazis ended up in argentina and south america....some living their lives out there into the 1970-80's without ever being caught. the auther then says hitler was taken by u-boat to argintina and lived out his life there until 1962.  the idea being that since other nazi's had done it and means for hitler was available...then thats what happened.... but we have no actual first person eyewitness from the u-boat,or any of his staff,or doctors,or cooks,or anyone else that would have seen hitler on a daily basis or actually got him to argintina.  what we have as alleged evidence are various radio reports,and people who say they saw hitler in a crowed dining room type of reports.  in other words,people who didn't know hitler,or people who simply made up stories or gossip.  the fact is,WE DONT KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO HITLER. and that is the only truth.  the authorsays that hitler and eva had two children,on in 1939. there are pictures of hitler with children...other peoples children. none of them are unidentified....however,if the auther could show that eva braun was pregnant during the time he says,either by eyewitness testimony,photos,doctor,midwife or hospital records or testimony...then maybe she had a child...who is the father would still be speculation.....he provides no evidence to support the hitler had children theory.  and every aspect of the story is the same. he also show how bad his research is by certain keywords in the book....like someone going to argentina via the rat line...rat line is a modern day term and from 1945-85 that route was called the spider network. the reason people love to hat the nazi's is because they were never brought to justice and so poor fantasy movies like inglorious basterds are made and people cheer. but the truth is far more interesting and human nature far more dangerous for twisting the facts to support fantasy.
  THIS IS NOT A GOOD BOOK,IT IS NOT WELL WRITTEN,IT DOES NOT HAVE FACTS TO ACTUALLY SUPPORT THE PREMISE,only facts to support the idea.pure fantasy
925965
While most facts appear to be accurate, there is a problem with his descriptions about Martha.  Pages 94 through page 106 we get a description of a Martha who has managed to survive the fire by 3 hours with her "burned lips seemed silently to mouth Edna's name." (p. 106)  However, on page 116 we are told that on the back seat there was a wooden box that held the remains of the Cheney children . . . but the box is described as a "painfully small box, easily carried in one hand."  This is a critical error.  (I have friends who have read this book and come away with the impression that there were very few remains found for either of the Cheney children.) Obviously, if Martha was intact enough to survive for three hours she would be intact enough for a coffin large enough to hold a 7 year old child.  John's remains, on the other hand, would go in a container that small.  Other authors also comment about Martha's body being fairly intact while John's remains were pretty well consumed by the fire making it necessary to sift through the ashes to find the remains that they did find.  I think the author could have been a little more accurate with these details.  Perhaps, it is a poor choice of words at this point but it gives the impression that there were not any significant remains left for either child.  After all, coffins for children are significantly smaller than those for adults and Martha was only 7 and may have been a petite child, at that.  However, I would not deem this to be "small enough to be carried easily with one hand."  Most researchers agree that John's few remains were placed in the same casket as Martha.
4780717
I like this book bc it goes really in-depth in terms of how Palo Mayombe & other similar religions/occults manifested in Cuba & spread to the rest of the world morphing into that country's version of it and also where it came from in Africa. But there's a well known fact that a high percentage of the millions of followers of this religion/occult are the poor & not so highly educated. Using smaller words & laymen's terms would have been better to educate all of the new "godchildren" coming into Palo whom are FOR SURE being misled & given the wrong info; for example, Mama Chola IS NOT Oshun. There really isn't any other book out there right now that goes this far in terms of historical knowledge & so it's unfortunate that most will have to read it with a dictionary at their side lol. Also there are times that the author seems to go all over the place to make a point & in other instances doesn't elaborate enough. It also seems this book was written for those who have at least an inkling of what Palo Mayombe is.
663093
The author does have much factual information in the book, but he paints Islam as a religion of nothing but extreamists(IN MY HUMBLE OPINION).  He grasps at straws in some parts of the book trying to link certain terrorist groups together.  He even suggests that it is likely that Al Queada and HIzbollah cells in South America will team up with Marxist groups like the Columbian FARRC and Neo Nazi groups to attack America.  While this is not impossible it is grasping at straws and when he talks about these (Marxist) groups in some detail it gets off track of the books intended subject matter(Fundmetalist Militant Islam).
2942306
The lack of fact--checking is evident.  Many other reviewers have pointed out inaccuracies.  One howler is the claim that the mass suicide of Jewish patriots at Masada occurred in AD 472.
2277436
This bood gives a lot of history and facts. Some are not as interesting as others. It was not as informative on some subjects. I wanted to know more about the habits and actual daily lives of the people.
896665
Kind of disappointed that the facts are not all true. Cute story overall, but for children learning about her and/or this time period it is important to stick to facts.
1650255
Like a lot of authors in this genre that supposedly reveals our true human history, he relies a lot upon assertions rather than evidence.  He will ask questions, then proceed as though by the asking he has established them as facts.  There were times when he stated outright that something is "fact", when in fact it was mistaken -- maybe just something he heard from an author of the same ilk.

Anyway, this could have been a much more effective (and shorter) book if he had stuck to harmonics without having to tie every little thing about the Roslyn Chapel to a hundred different myths and legends.

As the proof is in the pudding however, he should be out their helping to design harmonic spaces for raising consciousness instead of chasing his tail.
3098234
While a fun read, doesn't anyone ever fact check anymore? This is replete with factual misstatements. Just a few examples:

1. The Aspern Papers did not run a year; It closed after 93 performances.
2. Ready When You Are, C.B.! did not close after 4 performances. It ran for 80 performances.
3. Hallajuah Baby was not produced by David Merrick.
4. Forum was first produced in California and Larry Blyden worked hard to bring it to NY. Black picked it up. It also did terrible business in
  Chicago.  (By the way, I saw it and it was a great show. Silvers gave one of the best performances I have ever seen).
Well, Black did say he was getting on in years.
3238744
My boyfriend was happy with this gift although some of the facts are not correct and should have been better research by the authors.
1084766
Wish there were more stats and that final words were on the current state of affairs. More experiential than learning.
3115395
Unfortunately, this book does not appear to have been carefully fact-checked or edited. It is a nifty topic and written in an engaging style. But Dr. Denny presents at least two factual errors in Chapter 3, one which describes the development of modern firearms. There is an awful lot in this book that is very interesting that I do not have the background experience and training to evaluate. But I *do* know a good bit about modern handguns. To most trained handgunners, the two factual errors I note below might be the equivalent of getting the wrong answer on an American history test question similar to, "Who was the first President of the United States?"

I know that theoretical physics is Dr. Denny's academic discipline and not firearms or any other history. But he presents information in this book as authoritative and presents himself as a credible authority. Having found these errors calls into question the credibility of other statements he makes throughout the book, even those pertaining to ballistics. After all, conscientious, detailed fact-checking is important for non-fiction book authors, and I think most would agree it should be all the more important when presenting information outside one's area of expertise.

So here goes.

On page 56, first paragraph, he describes that a person rapid-firing a double-action revolver will, "...repeatedly pull the trigger, which cocks and fires the gun, ejects the spent cartridge and loads the next round, all from the same trigger pull." In fact, double-action revolvers do not automatically eject spent cartridges and load new rounds. The text actually describes the functioning of a semi-automatic pistol, not a revolver.

Speaking of semi-automatic pistols, on page 62, second paragraph, Dr. Denny writes that semi-automatic pistols were invented by Hugo Schmeisser in 1916. In fact, the first commercially successful semi-automatic pistol was designed by Hugo Borchardt and appeared in 1894. Moreover, by 1916, John Browning's famous M1911 .45 ACP semi-automatic pistol had already been adopted (in 1911) by the U.S. Army as its standard sidearm after several years of development and extensive competitive trials.
2602139
A wonderful read but I wonder how accurate the information is.  Has anybody done a fact check on the claims of these events really happening?

Look at the two references to the Borden murders in Fall River, Ma.  At one point it is pointed out that 'a young woman killed her parents'.  That statement is misleading on two fronts.  Lizzie Borden was never convicted of killing anybody.  That crime remains unsolved but if you took this book as fact, non-fiction, you would believe Lizzie did indeed kill her parents.  Plus Lizzie's parents were not killed, only her Father was.  The other was her step-Mother, somebody Lizzie would have never considered a parent.

I am being a little picky?  Consider the fact that Larson tells us on page 153 of this book that event took place in 1891.  Clearly the Borden murders took place August 4th, 1892.

Entertaining, of course.  Real life events, hard to say.
3076466
While there are some interesting facts here, it's quite a stretch to say that "everything you know is wrong."  Many of the facts are based on splitting hairs (i.e. largest city, coldest place on earth).

If you want interesting trivia presented in a way that's not snarky (and is hysterically funny) I recommend The Know It All by A.J. Jacobs.