The Biggest Secret: The Book That Will Change the World by David Icke

I love a good conspiracy book, especially when there is some basis for fact in them. However, Icke's book goes way too far in trying to tie every single conspiracy theory in existence into a single "Grand Unified Theory" of paranoia.

According to Icke, every single conspiracy (theory) the world has ever known is the responsibility of "reptiles of the lower fourth dimension". The author never seems to get very specific about the physics involved in reptiles "teleporting" their way into different dimensions, or how they are able to control our minds from a different plane of existence (something about them grabbing hold of our chakras). Either he is clueless as to the physics of it, or he is part of the conspiracy himself!

Icke's book purportedly explains every mystery you can imagine. From Bigfoot to UFO's. From the Bible to Atlantis. From global warming to the death of the dinosaurs. Icke seems to know it all, but provides pitifully little evidence to back up any of his theories. In Icke you must trust!

His "sources" are mostly other books he has written himself, as well as testimony from those under the influence of mind-altering drugs, anonymous Internet hucksters, and the admittedly mentally ill. According to Icke "science" (he loves to put "quotes" around EVERYTHING) is meaningless, and witchcraft is the preferable method of proving theories. Whatever.

Out of the 500+ pages in his book, I can buy maybe 4 to 5 of his conspiracy theories, and many of them have been much better documented in other works. The author's lack of research and basic writing skills makes the reader long for a book with an actual editor (none to be found here).

Probably the most telling quote from the book comes from its publishers. In the back of the publication it states, "As a small publishing operation, created solely to publish material that no one else will touch, we do not have the resources of a major publishing company."

Little things like editors, proofreaders, sane authors, etc. After reading the book, you will find out why no other publisher will "touch" it! For $25, you can do a lot better. Entertaining paranoia, but not worth the money.

BTW, towards the end of the book, Icke goes on to claim that not only are reptiles from the lower fourth dimension controlling our minds, but that some of those reptiles are being controlled by other beings from the lower FIFTH dimension! Where does it all end?!!?

These reptiles are apparently so incompetent that they haven't been able to wrest control from us mere three dimensional beings in their thousands of years of human intervention. Even Icke doesn't believe that they will ever take over the planet. So where's the problem?!!? If I had my choice between the world being run by lizards, or by David Icke, I'd side with the reptiles. Pass the flies... - William Van Hefner, Editor at The Digest

Amazon: $25.00
Barnes & Noble: $20.00
Powell's: $25.00