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Bufo Calvin 
P O Box 5231, Walnut Creek, CA 94596 
Internet: BufoCalvin@... 
Website: <a
href="http://members.aol.com/bufocalvin">http://members.aol.com/bufocalvin</a><b\
r>
<a
href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect-home/bufosweirdworld">Link
to Amazon.com</a> 
 
October, 1999 (Vol. 2, #10) 
 
Books mentioned in BAR can be ordered on most e-mail
systems by clicking on the
hyperlink title. This will take you to the book at
Amazon.com. You can read
more about it at that point and decide if you want to
order it. If you do, you
add it to your "shopping cart". Then, if you
want another title
mentioned here, please click on it in this post. If
you have questions, please
e-mail Bufo at <a
href="mailto:bufocalvin@...">BufoCalvin@...</a>.
 
 
Books in BAR now include some titles available from
the UK. This is for the
convenience of my European subscribers, as well as
allowing for the listing of
more titles. These books will be indicated with a (UK)
designation. Release
dates will generally reflect the U.S., except for
exclusively UK titles. 
 
I apologize for this issue being late: it�s been a
very busy time.� November and
December were combined into one
issue last year, and I expect to do that again this
year.� I think this is the
first BAR since I upgraded
to Word 2000.�
In an attempt to make the
links clearer, this is being sent a different
way.� My guess is that it will improve non-AOL
subscribers, but may
make it worse for AOL.� Please let me
know if you have problems with it. 
 
I�m reading some books I expect to feature in the near
future. It is my policy
not to feature a title until I have read all of it.
One of those titles is <a
href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0620219637bufosweirdworld">Hollow
Planets (paperback)</a> by Jan Lamprecht...look for
the review in the next
couple of issues. 
 
If you have books to recommend, please let me know. If
you would like to be 
named as recommending it, include that information as
well and tell me you
would like to be cited. 
 
 
In this issue: Featured Title, Bestsellers, As Heard
On, and Recent Additions 
 
FEATURED TITLE: 
 
<a
href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0892724617/bufosweirdworld">The
Great New England Sea Serpent (paperback)</a> 
<a
href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0892724617/bufosweirdworld08">The
Great New England Sea Serpent (paperback) (UK)</a> 
Subtitle: An Account of Unknown Creatures Sighted by
Many Respectable Persons
Between 1638 and the Present Day 
by J.P. O�Neill 
August 1999 
256 pages 
Sightings table (with page references), bibliography
and website directory,
illustrated, some photos, NO index 
 
Right from the beginning, people who sighted sea
serpents were ridiculed.� While seeing Elvis
has taken the number one
spot on the debunkers �guilt by association� hit
parade, sea serpents are still
towards the top.�
If you want to tarnish
a subject as the product of gullible overcredulity ,
you can toss in, �Oh, and
I�m sure it was riding on a sea serpent� to bursts of
derisive snickering. 
 
Why should this be so?� As J.P. O�Neill
ably documents in this volume, there are plenty of
sober sightings by reliable
individuals.�
What many of them report
does not seem unreasonable.� O�Neill has
made a point of reproducing the original stories in
most cases, often with
little commentary. 
 
She focuses on the reports that have come from the
Gulf of Maine, which runs
essentially from Massachusetts up to Nova Scotia.� These include the ones in the area of
Cape Ann and Gloucester,
which made national news, particularly in 1817. 
 
The book is straight-forward, respectful, and not
sensational.� It is, in a sense,
very New England.� It says that �this
is what it is� and brooks
no nonsense about it. 
 
O�Neill�s research (and that of others, whom she
graciously and properly
acknowledges) goes far beyond the observations of
hardworking fisherfolk and
land-dwellers.�
She does an excellent
job in setting the scene, and showing us the people
and the politics that were
involved.� As
with many of the best
books on these topics, it is ultimately not about �his
Snakeship�, but about
our reactions to him. 
 
The quibble factor here is so low it�s not even worth
bringing up.� Even the lack of an
index is ameliorated by
the sightings table.�
The book is an
excellent read, even for people not generally
interested in these things.� For people who want
to see wild speculations
or extensive analysis, it may not be enough.�
However, the vast majority will enjoy this
well-written accounting of
what has been called �the Great Mystery�. 
 
BEST SELLERS (July 1 1999 through September 30
1999) 
 
US 
 
<a
href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0684856026/bufosweirdworld">Cryptoz\
oology
A to Z (paperback)</a> 
 
by Loren Coleman 
 
Far out-distancing all competitors, this worthy title
was a very clear
winner.� See my
review at my page of
cryptozoology items at <a
href="http://members.aol.com/Weirdware2/bwwb-cz-master.html">http://members.aol.\
com/Weirdware2/bwwb-cz-master.html</a> 
 
UK 
 
<a
href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0709064616/bufosweirdworl08">The
Encyclopedia of the Loch Ness Monster (hardback)
(UK)</a> 
 
With UK titles only recently added, it�s nice to be
able to report our top
seller from Amazon UK. 
 
AS HEARD ON 
 
In my last appearance on Nightsearch (<a
href="http://listen.to/nightsearch">http://member.aol.com/taromystic/i\
ndexNS.html</a>),
we discussed some of what I consider to be the
scariest non-fiction books.� I listed: <a
href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0380703882/bufosweirdworldA/">Commu\
nion:
A True Story (paperback)</a> (Whitley Strieber�s first
book about his abduction
experiences�the scariest because he hadn�t come to
conclusions about what as
happening); <a
href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=006065337X/bufosweirdworldA/">Hosta\
ge
to the Devil : The Possession and Exorcism of Five
Americans</a> by Malachi
Martin (case studies of demonic possession, including
his accounting of the
case on which THE EXORCIST was based); and <a
href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0962653438/bufosweirdworldA/">The
Mothman Prophecies</a> by John A. Keel (which did much
to shape our views of
Men-in-Black, among other things). 
 
RECENT ADDITIONS: 
 
<a
href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0380770717/bufosweirdworld">When
Time Began (paperback)</a> 
<a
href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0380770717/bufosweirdworl08">When
Time Began (paperback) (UK)</a> 
By Zecharia Sitchin 
October 1999 
 
<a
href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0062518062/bufosweirdworld">1000
for 2000: Predictions for the New Millenium
(paperback)</a> 
<a
href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0062518062/bufosweirdworl08">1000
for 2000 (paperback) (UK)</a> 
by John Hogue 
October 1999 
 
<a
href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0713727373/bufosweirdworld">The
Book of Prophecy (hardback)</a> 
<a
href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0713727373/bufosweirdworl08">The
Book of Prophecy (hardback) (UK)</a> 
Subtitle: Predictions and Prophets in History and
Legend 
By Geoffrey Ashe 
 
<a
href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0425166929/bufosweirdworld">One
Last Time (paperback)</a> 
<a
href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0749919795/bufosweirdworl08">One
Last Time (paperback) (UK)</a> 
Subtitle: A Psychic Medium Speaks to Those We Have
Loved and Lost 
By John Edward 
This book, while not as creepy, is the closest one to
THE SIXTH SENSE that I�ve
read. 
 
<a
href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0817258477/bufosweirdworld">The
Bermuda Triangle (Innes) (paperback)</a> 
<a
href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0817258477/bufosweirdworl08">The
Bermuda Triangle (Innes) (paperback) (UK)</a> 
by Brian Innes 
 
<a
href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0817258493/bufosweirdworld">The
Cosmic Joker (hardback)</a> 
<a
href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0817258493/bufosweirdworl08">The
Cosmic Joker (paperback) (UK)</a> 
by Brian Innes 
Fortean phenomena, etc. 
 
<a
href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1558537856/bufosweirdworld">Ghosts
and Haunts of the Civil War (paperback)</a> 
<a
href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1558537856/bufosweirdworl08">Ghos\
ts
and Haunts of the Civil War (paperback) (UK)</a> 
by Christopher Coleman 
 
<a
href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1881532194/bufosweirdworld">Maury
Island UFO (paperback)</a> 
<a
href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1881532194/bufosweirdworl08">Maur\
y
Island UFO (paperback) (UK)</a> 
by Kenn Thomas 
 
<a
href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0932813712/bufosweirdworld">The
Path of the Pole (paperback)</a> 
<a
href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0932813712/bufosweirdworl08">The
Path of the Pole (paperback) (UK)</a> 
by� Charles H.
Hapgood 
This is a classic about pole shift, recently
reprinted. 
 
<a
href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0713727624/bufosweirdworld">The
Psychic War (paperback)</a> 
<a
href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0713727624/bufosweirdworl08">The
Psychic War (paperback) (UK)</a> 
R. Elmer Gruber 
 
<a
href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1893183181/bufosweirdworld">We
Are the Nibiruans (paperback)</a> 
<a
href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1893183181/bufosweirdworl08">We
Are the Nibiruans (paperback) (UK)</a> 
by Jelaila Star 
Sitchin alternative cosmology. 
 
<a
href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0684848562/bufosweirdworld">Capture\
d
by Aliens (hardback)</a> 
<a
href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0684848562/bufosweirdworl08">Capt\
ured
by Aliens (hardback) (UK)</a> 
Subtitle: The Search for Life and Truth in a Very
Large Universe 
by Joel Achenbach 
November 1999 
For a lengthy excerpt, see <a
href="http://www.salonmagazine.com/people/feature/1999/11/03/aliens/index2.html"\
>http://www.salonmagazine.com/people/feature/1999/11/03/aliens/index2.html</a>.<\
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