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Apocalypse 2012: The Survival Guide
WILL THE WORLD COME TO AN END IN 2012? Download this Vook now - an app that features nine never-before-seen videos and page-turner text, and decide for yourself. The Mayans believed in the Apocalypse, and now solar physicists believe that 2012 will be a pivotal year with potentially catastrophic solar flare activity. Author Lawrence E. Joseph has spent five years investigating the Mayan Prophesy and the result is Apocalypse 2012: The Survival Guide. This experience will cause any skeptic to question whether there really IS a cataclysmic event in our very near future. Apocalypse 2012 - the book - has already sold more than 100,000 copies and has been translated into 21 languages. Life as we know it could change forever. This is your guide to survival.
272 pages, Kindle Edition
First published February 22, 2011
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Lawrence Joseph
34 books10 followersLawrence Joseph is a poet and a lawyer.
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July 25, 2011
The Goodreads description states "Kindle Edition with Audio/Video". Oops. The Kindle version does not support audio or video, which is why Vook Inc. probably gave this out for free. My review only relates to the text portion of this edition which is how it is delivered.
So here's an idea for you younger readers. Every time someone says the world is about to end, put one dollar aside. By the time you get my age, you will have enough money to buy a survival cabin with enough food and an arsenal to get you through that apocalypse you were told would happen 50 years ago. And you can always will the cabin to your kids when it doesn't happen in your lifetime. And they can do the same for their kids, and on, and on.
Sure, the end of the world could come tomorrow...or in a million years. No one knows. But there is an entire cottage industry getting rich on the fears it may happen. This time, it's 2012. Lawrence Joseph's Apocalypse 2012 feeds on this fear. His book starts with the idea that the end of the world will come in a solar storm but then eventually wanders all over the place. There's just enough knowledge to make it sound half-convincing. But when he says things like the Mayans predicted the coming of the conquistadors when they said "Butterflies will invade the earth" (the butterflies were the sails of their ships. Get it?) It becomes clear he doesn't really know what he is writing about. By the time this mediocre book is through, we have visited John's Revelations, got high on cave gas, and are offered a handy bit of survival information; pray. Chalk this book down to "I'm glad it was free but will you refund the couple hours it took me to read it?"
I will give Mr. Joseph one bit of praise. There is actually a good few pages at the end on constructing a family contingency plan for disasters, big and small. As he rightly says, every family should plan for a disaster. But I didn't need to read through 200+ page of hogwash to get there.
By the way, I've now read two "Vooks" and both were awful. No more for me. Even for free.
So here's an idea for you younger readers. Every time someone says the world is about to end, put one dollar aside. By the time you get my age, you will have enough money to buy a survival cabin with enough food and an arsenal to get you through that apocalypse you were told would happen 50 years ago. And you can always will the cabin to your kids when it doesn't happen in your lifetime. And they can do the same for their kids, and on, and on.
Sure, the end of the world could come tomorrow...or in a million years. No one knows. But there is an entire cottage industry getting rich on the fears it may happen. This time, it's 2012. Lawrence Joseph's Apocalypse 2012 feeds on this fear. His book starts with the idea that the end of the world will come in a solar storm but then eventually wanders all over the place. There's just enough knowledge to make it sound half-convincing. But when he says things like the Mayans predicted the coming of the conquistadors when they said "Butterflies will invade the earth" (the butterflies were the sails of their ships. Get it?) It becomes clear he doesn't really know what he is writing about. By the time this mediocre book is through, we have visited John's Revelations, got high on cave gas, and are offered a handy bit of survival information; pray. Chalk this book down to "I'm glad it was free but will you refund the couple hours it took me to read it?"
I will give Mr. Joseph one bit of praise. There is actually a good few pages at the end on constructing a family contingency plan for disasters, big and small. As he rightly says, every family should plan for a disaster. But I didn't need to read through 200+ page of hogwash to get there.
By the way, I've now read two "Vooks" and both were awful. No more for me. Even for free.
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