chariots of fire book by erich von daniken

But there's also a high possibility that many of the artistic examples used to support Daniken's argument could've been just by the artist. This is not to entirely discount the chance that visitors have played a role in human history. Thirdly, there seems to be this wild fear within many of the Ancient Astronaut proponents that some of the evidence brought forth might be simply be the result of a person's active imagination. It would've been nice to have had more time devoted to further defend and provide evidence to support his theory. A chapter would've been great, but after a while it becomes somewhat boring. This would not be so much of a problem, but this comprises a good third of the book. Secondly, Daniken spends much of the work focusing on how we might become versions of Ancient Astronauts ourselves when we begin our ascent into the stars. Despite that, the rapid shooting logic seemed to be a little disconcerting in assuaging the skeptics who do not take the theory at face value. And even then, there's probably going to be a few hold outs who will think that this is a facade to fool the masses. Until an alien can be found, interviewed, and prove that aliens did in fact land on the earth, it's a little hard to make the argument without a few holes. This wasn't entirely at the fault of the writer. Though Erich von Daniken didn't use the phrase in the work, the meme 'I'm not saying it was aliens, but it was aliens,' was playing heavily while reading the book. One of the first traits noticed while reading the work is the somewhat rushed decisions, when it comes to connecting the evidence between historical and archaeological findings Daniken uses to help support his arguments.

With the reputation of the book preceding this reading, it was somewhat disappointing. Examples of these include Star Trek, Ancient Aliens, and the Aliens franchise (especially the recent entry Prometheus.) Though the idea has been the focus of fictional works, non-fiction works are lesser known, as they are usually passed off as many as simply whims of fancy. This theory has influenced many science fiction novels, television series, films throughout the years. The theory focuses on the postulation that many of our religions, myths and legendary figures were in fact visitors from other worlds.

Chariots of fire book by erich von daniken