Michael Drosnin, The Bible Code 2: The Countdown Review

Overall Rating

Drosnin's reporter's insights into the personalities, attitudes, and motivations of the key players: Sharon, Arafat, Bush, Sharon and those he interviews are very interesting.

Of course, the methodology is completely bogus. I can refer the reader to numerous analyses that explain how you can find almost any message you want encoded in almost any text you choose, provided there are enough letters. Besides Hebrew has no vowels and has notoriously flexible spelling rules.

Sure the bible comes from God. That's the way it's defined. It was written by man of course. But DNA from God too - or aliens? It's not an argument unique to Droshin. Read "Fingerprints of the Gods" by Graham Hancock, or even Chariots of the Gods by van Daneken.

Overall, The Bible Code 2: The Countdown is a really bad book that will be really liked by people who want to believe in wierd things.

That's really a shame because Droshin was able to meet and interview some very interesting people with insight into what may in fact bring about the end of days - or at the days as we know them now.

The interviews with Arafat, the Americans, and Israelis, and the author analysis that could have expanded on these interviews would have made a very compelling story of the personalities behind the middle east conflicts, and how the personalities involved may indeed cause the end of days. It's just an opportunity lost.
Maybe it's easier to publish if you invoke the bible and prophesy.

Of couse with the teaser on the DNA genetic code and the bible code both being there for the taking in the currently in accessible place near the Dead Sea in Jordan, there is the making of the third book in the series. So now the code has just become a formula for the sequel?