I bought this book because I had read about Zecharia Sitchin on the web -- his notions about the ancient Sumerian gods, the Annunaki and their supposed return to Earth some day. Sitchin's notions take on the gloss of authority because of his claim to knowledge of the Sumerian language, which no doubt no or very very few readers have. Then I decided to do the sensible thing -- to try and verify his claims. I went on the net, did some "googling" and found Dr. Michael Heiser's website, "Sitchin is Wrong": [...].It turns out Sitchin had only a flawed grasp of ancient Sumerian and was just plain wrong in all his major assertions. Please, before you go all alarmist about the impending "return" of Nibiru (or Planet X) in 2012, do the responsible thing and read Dr. Heiser's debunking of Sitchin.