wow, this thread kinda exploded!
Okay, at this point it's pretty obvious you're another sock puppet of Neil Burns.
Let's throw that on the pile of the massive deception you've perpetrated in your book. You lie repeatedly and habitually. You say your word has never been questioned -- well, it's being questioned now, in a big way. You are a company director of several companies in the U.K. Do you believe this is acceptable behavior for a professional?
I have to say I also ordered a copy of Mr Burns' book and have spent the last week slowly reading it.
That's very slow indeed. The book is only a quarter inch thick, folio-sized, 12-point text. How anyone could take so long to read it is beyond me.
While it's certainly a very fantastical setting, it's impossible to really know if it's true or not.
Nonsense. It's
obviously false. Its purported science is flatly and ignorantly wrong. You carefully avoid offering any way to verify your claims -- all the "verification" is simply your further claims of ghostly communion (which themselves are patently false, as we see below). Your narrative is riddled with blatant inconsistencies, and the characters that you purport to be real people are comically one-dimensional and not at all like the people and institutions we are familiar with. This is the problem when your ghost character is a recently deceased real person and when you invoke institutions that may seem exotic and faraway to you, but to your readers are mundane, familiar entities.
I think some people here are just pre-judging the book based on their own views on the author rather than the actual content.
I'm judging it entirely by its content. Its content is rubbish from beginning to end.
For example the constant calling of it as a 'pamphlet' is rather rude really.
No, it's a pamphlet. Or it would be, if you were to remove the several chapters that have nothing to do with Armstrong or Apollo and simply drone on about what an exceptional golfer and accountant you are. The relevant parts of the book comprise the 3 pages of your pseudo-science essay, the 4 pages where you visit Navy Marine Golf Course, and the 3 pages that allege to be Armstrong's monologue. The rest is just self-indulgent filler.
The world map especially was very nicely done...
Well, I wasn't going to say anything about that because I considered it a cheap shot. But since you mentioned it -- it's not nicely done at all. It's so DCT-mangled you can't even make out the labels. I literally have seen children do better graphics work in Microsoft Paint.
And it's completely irrelevant to Armstrong, Apollo, and your hoax claims. It's simply part of the tedious irrelevant travelogue, ostensibly to impress the reader with what a world traveler you are.
I can understand why you might not believe it's true. But if it is or isn't doesn't take away from its entertainment value imho.
Asked and answered. If you had posed it as fiction, its entertainment value would be relevant. Even as fiction it's abominable, for the reasons given many times in this thread.
But since you pose it as putative fact, its entertainment value is irrelevant. Allegations of fact have value only in how truthful they are. Your "ghost of Neil Armstrong" character repeats exactly the same kinds of gross, fundamental mistakes in orbital mechanics that you do in your purportedly degree-winning thesis. They are characteristic errors, as telltale as fingeprints. That's how we know it's you putting your words into Armstrong's mouth, and consequently how we know that you're lying -- and that you
know you're lying.
You, sir, ought to be ashamed. Your behavior is puerile and reprehensible, not at all befitting a grown man.