Bigfoot! : The True Story of Apes in America by Loren Coleman
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Book Reviews of Bigfoot! : The True Story of Apes in America
Book Review: a very entertaining book
Summary: 3 Stars
The book teaches you about NAPES,which is somthing I did not know about until i read this book. But if you are a veteran bigfoot reearcher, you really dont learn anything new in this book, the author even copied his text from his previous books into it, instead of adding new information. If i knew nothing about bigfoot, i would give this a five star rating, but i know a lot about the bigfoot mystery,and besides the NAPES, i didnt see anything special about this book. Loren Coleman's other books, such as the mothman or Mysterious America, are much more enjoyable books.Book Review: sasquatches are real but this book is boring
Summary: 2 Stars
There is a ton of evidence that bigfoots are real animals, I don't doubt this, but this book is boring and just rehashes things we have all read and heard many times before. The only cool part of the book is a the listing in the back that tells places too look for bigfeet. This is not a personal attack on the author, he is cool in my book, just that a real new find on this subject needs too be made before anymore documentatries are books are written over and over saying the same thing........Book Review: Boring but informative
Summary: 2 Stars
The author spends a great deal of time breaking down the accurate events going through time. However I found it a pretty boring read. I'm not sure if it's the author's writing style or the stories and events were just not appealing, or both.
I could see this book being interesting to a future Bigfoot hunter or a Cryptozoologist in training, but none of my friends.
I find it hard reccomending this book to read.
Book Review: Terrible
Summary: 1 Stars
Unfortunately, this is a terrible book. I was looking for a definitive text that would both summarize the history of the Bigfoot phenomenon, as well as smartly capture the current theories and efforts to further explore the creature. This book did neither, or at least did not do so in a useful and intelligent manner.
The author does summarize in a fashion the history of Bigfoot sightings and encounters, and includes supposed historical cultural references to a large, anthropic, North American cryptid. This summary, however, is haphazard at best, and incompetent at average, and purposefully misleading at worst. It is very poorly written from a purely literary standpoint. The author darts all over the subject, going form place to place and time period to time period with no logic or cohesion.
This was probably the most frustrating thing for me- that the cultural history of Bigfoot was treated in a fashion as to make it unreadable and useless. I was really looking forward to learning the similarities and differences in Bigfoot legends amongst the many wonderful First American tribes across the continent. Unfortunately, the subject was treated like a trailer full of lies, half-truths, and ill-formed conclusions, all tossed about by a tornado.
I would advise to NOT purchase this book. While I do not know which of the many Bigfoot books out there are any better, I do know this one is not worth the time of anyone with even a slightly intelligent and analytic mind.