Walter Rea is nothing more than a sensationalist. Fueled by greed and personal vendetta rather than an honorable quest for truth, Rea uses anything and everything he get his hands on (including ridiculously poor logic) in order to attack Ellen White and the Spirit of Prophecy. The following is an excerpt from a more detailed history of Walter Rea [online.]

In the Prologue, White Lie, Walter Rea explains that it was a thirst for vengeance that got him started on his mission to destroy the Spirit of Prophecy in the first place. He says that, after he compiled two Spirit of Prophecy books of quotations about Old and New Testament personalities, the E.G. White Estate appeared to give his books little attention. He felt miffed. They had not praised him as he thought he should be praised. So he determined to strike back.

On Thursday and Friday, October 23-24, 1980, the Los Angeles Times ran headlined articles about Walter Rea's charges that Ellen White was a plagiarist. The title of one of the articles was "Plagiarism Found in Prophet Books." Associated Press wired the story to other newspapers across the United States.
In order to make the article more sensational, however, Walter Rea deliberately broadened his falsification of facts. How did he do that? That Times article, based on information supplied by Walter Rea, quoted Elder Neal C. Wilson, General Conference president, as saying that "the degree of borrowed material and literary dependence is of alarming proportions. "

But he deliberately twisted what Wilson had said, and then gave it to the Times, to go across America. What he did reveals the character of the man making all these charges! It was a lying report, made by a man who makes charges which he knows are untrue. Here was N.C. Wilson's complete sentence, which Rea lifted out of a letter Wilson had written shortly before:
"As a result of 14 or 15 years of study, and more intensive research in the last two or three years, Elder Rea feels that the degree of borrowed material and literary dependence is of alarming proportions." -N.C. Wilson, letter to the members of the committee set up by the General Conference to study Walter Rea's charges, quoted in Adventist Review, November 27,1980.

When someone sent Rea a copy of that letter, he lifted that phrase out of its full sentence-and then gave it to the Los Angeles Times, making it appear that the General Conference president believed Rea's conclusions to be true. Frankly, If Rea will so wrest a sentence by Elder Wilson, to suit his own purposes, how can anyone trust his charges against Ellen White to be any more true?

In fact, people that accepted Walter Rea's charges ended up destroying their lives! At the February 1982 Walla Walla Adventist Forum meeting, Rea openly admitted the flaws in his own logic by stating, "Don't you do to the Bible what I am doing to the writings of Ellen White, or you will de­stroy the Bible too!"

He knew exactly what he had set out to do; and, in the lives of many people, Walter Rea did it. About 1986, a schoolteacher in Ohio phoned and asked if she could stop by and see whatever the present writer had on the Rea controversy. Shortly afterward, during the summer break, she arrived with her daughter. Although decked out as a non-Adventist, she said she had once been an Adventist minister's wife. But, she explained, when Walter Rea went around lecturing, she and her husband decided to leave the ministry. Having separated from the Spirit of Prophecy, soon after he left her and their daughter for another woman. Since then, she had left Adventism entirely. Yet there were lingering questions in her mind. The present writer tried to clarify issues, but it seemed impossible to break the hold the world now had on her. We provided her with papers and other materials and, that same afternoon, she left and continued on her journey to a vacation in Florida.

Walter Rea has been destroying people for years. He is still doing it. That is why this present book has been published. The need for it still exists. But whatever happened to Walter himself?

An acquaintance of Walter Rea called us on the phone last year (1995) and told us that Rea no longer believes in the Bible either! He handed the fruit of skepticism of God's Word to others; now he is eating it himself. He is a sullen man who broods in his smoldering hatreds. Remember the warning of Moses to the people regarding three other rebels against God's prophet in. ancient times: "Depart, I pray you, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest you be consumed in all their sins'" ­ Numbers 16:26.

That is good counsel for us today.

Unfortunately the writer of this book is not writing for the good of people. He is not even writing this book to find the truth. It seems that he wrote this book, just because he was unwilling to accept what Ellen White wrote. Incidently, if you use the authors definition of plagarism, he himself is a plagarist because he extensively quotes Ellen White's materials in his book, to prove his point.

As one raised in an Adventist family I was shocked at the reading of this book. It is absolutely proof positive that Ellen White was not the prophetess that the SDA Church claims her to have been. Her writings are almost word for word copies of earlier writings. Walter Rea, while serving as an Adventist pastor stumbled on to this truth and exposed the lie. The sad truth is that the SDA Church ignored the proof rather than humbling themselves before God and admitting the truth. This book is a must read if you are an Adventist or are considering Adventism. The books she copied are printed side-by-side to Ellen's writings. The truth CANNOT be missed or denied.

This book taught me a lot about my Hawaiian heritage. I learned tons of words and about the history of my people. The book was basically about 13-year-old Kaiuilani dreading to go to England, but went anyway, and the her life there and at home. It saddened me that she didn't have long to live, but this diary (I believe) shows how it felt like to be an ignored royal person. Although they don't show it in the story I think it's a tragic book. Hawaiians have much to mourn about for their royal family...

Shaquille O'Neal is a unique famous basketball player who came into the NBA playing for the Orlando Magic, but he is now playing for the LA Lakers. He is 7''1' and weighs 303 pounds, and size 20 shoes. He loves kids and that is probably one of the reasons that basketball has become so popular in America. If you like basketball or Shaquille O'Neal this is the book for you. But for me, it's only okay because the book didn't tell me anything I didn't already know except for some of the players' statistics.