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The Coming Global Superstorm
by Art Bell, Whitley Strieber

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• Avg. Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0

• Your review of reviews--a new unofficial Amazon feature!
  Well without a doubt the collection of reviews here for this rather loose-limbed and pop-ish book makes for some entertaining and often amusing reading. Highly recommended and in some ways better than the book itself!
  Bell and Strieber are a first-rate carny act (and I mean that in a genuinely complimentary way!) and whether they've got their facts straight or not whatever they do is bound to generate interest, controversy, and most importantly, sales! The book is no doctoral thesis (it was surely... more info

• Poppycock
  My apologies to my friend Art Bell, but this book is pure poppycock. Entertaining, but poppycock.

• Interesting science, with the additional movie clip thrown in
  I teach earth science, and spend a great deal of time instructing my students on how to critically view the materials they see on tv and in the movies. Most of them have seen the Hollywood sensationalistic movies like Armageddon, The Core, Dante's Peak, and The Day After Tomorrow, but they often have questions about what is fact and what is fiction for the sake of selling a movie. This book does a good job of explaining the science behind the Great Ocean Conveyor Belt, and how it drives modern climate, and... more info

• Borderline hack-work
  There are three different aspects in this book. Part of it is an argument that a technological human society previously existed and was wiped out something like 15,000 years ago. In this regard, the book borders on the absurd, not much better than the works by the "aliens-built-the-pyramids" crowd.
  The second aspect is the end-of-the-world fictional narrative. Just watch the movie "The Day After Tomorrow." I think it was inspired by this book.
  Lastly, there is a quasi-scientific attempt to explain... more info

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