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Summary: Interesting Premise, Bad Execution
Review: Although Bell and Strieber present fascinating information in support of their hypothesis about superstorms, the material could have been presented in 50 interesting pages. Instead this book takes 236 pages to present the same information over and over again. There could have been a powerful message about action needed to avert the superstorm. Unfortunately, it was seriously diluted in the repetitiveness.
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Summary: The Coming Global Superstorm
Review: I give this book 5 stars...so you can go buy it and when the Ice Storm comes, you can burn it to keep you warm. Seriously, it is only good to burn.
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Summary: Keep your night job!
Review: Baloney does not stick to paper very well. Not since Joseph Goebbels and the "big lie" has there been such a gaseous expulsion of fairy tales masquerading as science. Beam me up Scotty!
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Summary: While controversial . . .
Review: because of its scientific content as presented by non-scientists, I nevertheless found the book very informative and entertaining. It reads like a thriller but the subject matter is rooted in geological fact. The authors have managed to distill scientific data into a readable and enjoyable presentation of the onset of the next ice age. Other reviewers have been highly critical. However, I suggest one read the book less academically and more vernacularly. It's not intended to be a textbook, but an attention-getter.
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Summary: Excellent writing; thoughtful conclusions; a few flaws
Review: Very well written and organized volume dealing with the possible threat of dramatic weather changes that may culminate in the onset of a new ice age. Drawing on new research that indicates similar destructive weather changes have occured in the (geologically) recent past, the authors put together a very readable work that expresses their concerns -- that the environmental and meteorological conditions may be right for another such event.Much of the writing style, especially in the chapter-leading fictional accounts, reminds me of Strieber's earlier work, WAR DAY -- a superior example of detailed and searching speculative fiction. A personal frustration for me, as a reader, was that the references used as support for the issues presented in the book were not footnoted -- very difficult to try to hunt out the material for further study. It was this minor flaw that lead to the 4-star rating; had research been more clearly identified, the rating would have been 5-star. The work is clearly speculative and written for a popular audience. Fortunately, authors are still allowed to think independently and draw conclusions from available data, and Bell & Streiber have made a credible contribution to current speculations on environmental change.
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Summary: Oh come on.....
Review: This authors mix wild and implausible speculation with pseudo-science to produce a book that, if anybody read it, would set the environmentalists back ten years. We just have to hope that few fall into the trap of reading it, like I did.
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Summary: Very interesting but................
Review: I am glad I borrowed the book instead of buying it. The authors substantiate nothing. This book should be put on a shelf labeled Speculative Fiction.
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Summary: A superstorm of quotations, borrowed facts and arguments
Review: This book is a superstorm of quotations, borrowed facts and arguments to cause havoc in the world of authorship and readership. The authors keep on throwing out pre-historic stories like facts to jumble the mind as if they were the scientific authorities themselves. They elaborate on conjectural things, of the distant past, that have no bearings on our everyday life. These archaeological and paleontological relics, being repeatedly recounted in the text, are means to satisfy evolving theories and assumptions - not the confirmation of what had really transpired since there must have been many other hidden variables. Global warming is a recent phenomenon uniquely caused by modern civilization. It is a waste of coverage to delve into the ancient past not just thousands but also millions of years ago in order to drive in some similarity and relevancy with the present. Summing up, this book bears a misleading title to beguile people genuinely concerned with environmental issues by inundating them with torrents of data without offering uniquely original solutions except some words of complacent encouragement in the last two chapters (22 & 23). On one hand, the authors reuse and recycle others ideas and findings; but on the other hand, instead of reduction to clarity, they indulge in superfluous redundancy. Hopefully, by discarding the irrelevancy and redundancy, this book can be abridged to a few chapters from the original 25 - prologue and epilogue included. Notwithstanding, I would beseech the public to spend their money on related books by the scientific communities.
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Summary: The best psudo-scientific journal out there!
Review: After reading this book, I just have to say: The global harmonic flux ratios contained in this journal are profoundly diametrical in their rotational vector dynamics. The Storm's projected quantum structure, which falls within an ionic matrix, is well described in terms of dimensionally layered mechanics. The book scared me so much that I plan to construct a large subterranean bunker with self-contained waist and air reclamation systems and enough food to last my family and I for ten years.
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Summary: Art's "other" Y2K
Review: I love Art dearly, but after reading this book you'll see why he wins the "Snuffed Candle" award from the Skeptical Inquirer . . . for dishonest reporting. I don't think Art means any harm though. He's a good guy, but he's exceptionally gullible, and he needs to gather all the facts before jumping to his conclusions. Please don't rush out and buy more of Art's products and survival gear. This is another version of Art's Y2K, and I dread the thought of so many people going broke and scaring themselves silly over this flawed reporting. If you check the actual weather stats, with a real, experienced weather man, you'll learn a lot of interesting facts that don't fit in with Art's global disaster.
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