O.K. I bought this book from hamiltonbook.com because the description sounded interesting. (BTW, hamiltonbook.com rocks, it's not their fault that this book is a crock of shit.) I didn't notice who the author was. Richard Hoagland is a fucking quack. It's a decade after the "face" on Mars has been thoroughly de-bunked and he's still trying to sell this shit. He's a fucking idiot. I'll still probably read this book just to see how whacked out it is. But I'm sure there's no astronomy or astrophysics here. I've thumbed thru the book and it's still all the same "face" on Mars, and there's "condominiums" on Mars type of bullshit. I think this is a minimum 6 beer book. I'll attempt to read it, but I warn you now that it may get launched into orbit at any time. (Yes, I've had a few beers tonight, but I can still tell bullshit when I see it.)

I love what educational systems are teaching children about our history. This will make you think twice about that being true. ( )

Wouldn't it be thrilling if there really were a secret that the government was keeping from us? Unfortunately the evidence presented here does not persuade. Its sort of embarrassing for computer scientists, which is what these guys are. ( )

Can't say I had great expectations about this book, but it was actually far worse than I thought. Most of the text is about Hoagland's various struggles with NASA bureaucracy and it makes for pretty boring reading I tell you. The pictures in the book are of awful quality and most of the time it's impossible to understand what the heck Hoagland is on about. "Fig 6-5 shows an amazing castle, 600 miles wide, made of golden glass with dancing unicorns on top" and you sit there staring at a picture of a seemingly completely normal lunar landscape while you wonder what kind of psychedelic aids Hoagland has and you don't. Sir! I'll have some of what that gentleman is drinking, please!

That being said, the book is actually not completely useless. There are small bits of food for thought to be found here and there and it becomes quite clear that NASA actually is keeping a lot of secrets regarding the moon for reasons unknown. For a while it's quite entertaining to read about Hoagland's endless problems with getting decent photographic material from NASA, but it just drags on and on. Had this book been condensed to a 20 page essay, it might have been a good and mindblowing read.

But all in all, save your money and instead type in "lunar anomalies" in your search engine of choice. You will see some pretty weird pictures that really makes you think "that looks like a..." ( )