| My Book Reviews |
| On the Trail of the Assassins - Jim Garrison This book I didn't read for a while when I got it. It looked a bit dry and dull and that is an important point, because it says something about Jim Garrison's character. When looking recently on the internet I came across somebody collecting Jim Garrison 'lies' for a proposed book. Now it is always a standard tactic to attack a person's character and motives when they present a case of such an explosive nature,and in the eyes of the critics Garrison and others like him are attention seekers who just want to make their mark on the world. It is also usually argued, rather strangely, that they are doing so to further their career,or to gain higher office. These are the usual arguments and are used so indiscriminately that most of the time they really doesn't make much sense,and this is particularly so in Garrisons case. This book is so unsensationally presented, it has a story to tell and it is told in as clear detail just as a good historian would try to do. You get very little biographical detail only just enough to get a simple picture of the man, and that to is in keeping with the impression of him you gain through his writing.There's no breathless excitement here, no cliff hangers to help you keep reading on. Garrison could have cashed in on the burgeoning conspiracy/paranormal market and present you with the further implications of the JFK assassination. But no, he just sticks to the facts that he knows about and stops there. He hasn't even used his name to write other books on the whole gamut of conspiracy/paranormal stuff to an eager audience willing to swallow it all. So the picture I get of Jim Garrison and the story he tells, is that of an intelligent,strong minded but basically conformist in outlook man who just found himself in an extreme situation, for which he did not seek or desire to happen, but due to his own personal values of truth and justice couldn't let go of. And the motivation for writing this book was to recount this story and to set the record straight. Unlike Garrison however, I am interested in the further implications of JFK and there is a particular piece of evidence that jumped out at me at the time, but of course which Garrison makes no direct comment on,and it's that about 6 co workere at the Reilly Coffee factory left after Lee Harvey Oswald left there,to work for NASA ! And right there was a link between my belief there is something highly suspect about the Apollo missions and the assassination of JFK. However what that link is I'm still pondering to this day. |
| Dark Moon - David Percy and Mary Bennet This book about the alleged faked lunar landings is an odd one, it feels almost schizophrenic in nature.The first half of this book is dense collection of evidence that overwhelms you,the second confuses you with it's seemingly wild metaphysical/scientific speculations To me this 2nd part of book almost calls into question the validity of the 1st part.Almost but not quite.I still feel the book could have ended with the exhaustive presentation of info and it would for me be a 'paranormal' classic.However although tainted by the 2nd half this presents some great evidence that convinced me there was something distinctly fishy about the whole Apollo lunar missions. I know this belongs in the raving bonkers end of conspiracy theories and I'm pushing my luck to expect anybody to believe me when I say I think it was possible that they could have done it.But this book really kick started me to believe that we didn't go to the moon (Well at least not in the way we were shown). And from the moment I read it, I started playing 'the conspiracy game' which allowed me to explore the possiblities of this conspiracy without having any emotional commitment to the outcome of my investigations.However of late of course, I find I'm playing the conspiracy game for real,though of course my life won't come to an end if isn't true,it would just be a little duller if it wasn't. Reading this book you get the distinct feeling of just how long they have been researching and thinking about it.They've been in a cloistered world away from the ordinary world which was receding into insubstantiality as their research went on.Their whole style is one I dislike in paranormal books where the authors cry out they have the real 'facts' and look down on the rest of us ordinary mortals with disdain.There's lots of in jokes based on their own metaphysical speculations along the way and you feel they can't wait to get you to the latter half of the book where they give you something they obviously feel is more important than the obvious (to them) reality of the faked lunar landing |
| Books reviewed on this page are |
| On The Trail of the Assassins - Jim Garrison |
| Dark Moon - David Percy and Mary Bennet |
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