The Smoky God: A Voyage to the Inner World Paperback – May 8, 2016

This is a good story and it's crazy to think that it might be true I kind of feel that it is but I'm kind of like that

what an amazing book. It had me enthralled from page one. its is a very short book, as the author condensed the writing he was given. Very good book. The author says that he is telling olafs story.That when he talked about it himself, a very wealthy prominent man who showed interest in his amazing account (yes, this is suppose to be a TRUE story, and weather or not you believe it, it truly is his truth), but the rich man ended up getting him locked in an insane asylum for over a decade. He kept the story to himself.The author account his meeting olaf. Olaf was in his garden when he walked by and a conversation sparked. They grew to be friends. Olaf called for the author on his death bed to tell him this tell an give him his diary and notes from the years.The author describes Olaf as a smart man. But traumatized by his betrayed and treatment in the hospital. How he vowed to never speak a word of it until he met our author, and felt he had to pass the tale on to him.He could have gone to inner earth if it is real, or just the true north as depicted in old maps like on a flat earth, ormaybe there is an inner world on flat earth.The most interseting thing is that a very wealthy powerful man showed interest in his storyThat his account of what happend, was before JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH was written.That JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH was written and published by jules, with according to him, the help of a powerful rich man who had great ideas for the book.one in the same man?I see this book as true, weather or not it was truly "inner earth"

READ THIS BOOK EVEN IF YOU DONT BELIEVE IN IT! It’s a great story to read to your kids or you, and the imagery, in this book is amazing. Short amount of pages but definitely well well worth it. I had to follow along while listening to the auto book version (free on YouTube.) because the words were to hard for me to understand and read. But could easily understand it with the auto book while following along. Could read the whole book in just one day.Sad but eye opening story, especially if you believe in it! MUST READ 🎉

I heard an account recently which came from actual scientists and military personnel, so I thought I'd look into it and then happened upon this book. I'm only about half way through but it is definitely an easy read and quite interesting, and I haven't even gotten to the good stuff yet. Honestly, if such a thing turns out to be true it would definitely explain a lot. I sincerely hope it is true, and judging from the accounts of those who shared their experiences I am inclined to believe them and am eager to learn more about it.

The Smoky God is a fascinating read.

This story's greatest strength is its brevity - it got no better as it went along, and stopped before it had time to turn truly bad.Out of 69 pages, the first seventeen and the last page set the "I got this from someone else" premise, possibly to avert blame for the writing. Once the tale gets under way, it continues a questionable habit of citing now-obscure sources to justify some of the stranger points of the story. There are more than twenty of these diversions. A quarter to half of a page each, I did not see them improving the telling.About the first fifteen pages of the narrative describe the rigors sailing through ice-ridden seas, before seeing the first sign of the inner world, the "sun" at the interior sphere's center. Soon after the travelers see the inhabitants, human but gigantic. That seemed to be the pattern: grapes the size of ranges, lives in the 600-year range, elephants at least five times the size of our own, and so on. Oh, and gold. Lots and lots of gold, in extravagant display. That seemed to be a common feature of late-19th to early 20th century fantasies: a place would hardly be worth mention without extravagant display of the metal. Little seems to be said about the governance or social habits of the society, except that the Chief High Priest seems hold the most authority. I noted, however, that anything inexplicable to the 1908 author, like the energy of the sun-thing or motive power of their vehicles, was termed "electrical". Well, later authors did much the same. Mid-20th century, giant monsters and other weirdness had "atomic" sources. The word "quantum" is similarly used these days by people with no idea what the word means.The last ten pages, give or take, detail the harrowing trip home. If you've kept count, fewer than half the pages actually describe the inner world. as a result, I came away with only a vague impression of how it differed from our own, except in matters of size and wealth. Someone with a passion for "hollow earth" stories might add this to their collection. I choose to spare my personal library the embarrassment, and will re-home the book in the first Little Free Library I see.-- wiredweird

When originally printed it was published as an "account" of the witness. Adding the ridiculous wiki barb on the back cover is total bs. Suddenly, someone a century removed decides it was fiction because they know better, in their cubicle, with a box of donuts at the ready... Shame on the lack of an open mind, after all they'll (UN) sink your boat if you try and get near the north or south pole to this day...

This is an easy & short read, but very enjoyable. It also arrived very quickly.