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Summary: Fiction
Review: If you want the facts on the Roswell Incident put in plain, matter-of-fact form, consult books by Stanton Friedman. If you want the facts of this UAP crash exposed in an enjoyable read--pick up Majestic. This book will maintain your interest and will be difficult to put down. Much more to this book than meets the eye--however--it is fiction. Also, be aware that the account of the Loosley incident is also fiction; apparently based on the childish prank of a David Langford. This book reads almost like a deathbed confession (ref. Jesse Marcel). Communion and Transformation are more like horror fiction novels, whereas this is an outstanding read. Enjoy.
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Summary: Gods From Outer Space
Review: It was Good. Words cannot adequately express how good it was-- therefore i won't bore you to death. Just read it, and while you read it, remember that we are the product of advanced genetic engineering and were created by God (Aliens).
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Summary: Spooky at times, just plain wierd at others...
Review: Majestic is a good book for someone with an open mind. You don't have to believe in UFO's to have good scare with most parts of the book, and yet, you really, really have to stretch your noodle at other parts. As far as blending fact and fiction I think that Striber does a good job, even though it is perspective on what is fact. Bear in mind what went on at Roswell in '47 has two sides; the government and the people who really believe that a UFO crash was covered up. I personally enjoyed the book. I found some parts to be very spine tingling. The only thing that wasn't that great was the blending of alien and humans. Of course, we are talking sci-fi and I noramlly do not read these kind of books so this maybe great for some readers. I let a friend of mine read the book and he shares the same opinion as myself. Over all I believe Majestic is well written and should be read as fiction, not as fact, with a bit of "what if" in the back of your mind, this makes it reading at night a lot more entertaining. I really liked this book and will read it agian at a later date.
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Summary: Disappointing
Review: The problem here is that Strieber can't seem to make up his mind whether he's writing history or science fiction, and the two genres have very different requirements. As an historical account of the Roswell affair, it is largely useless because you can't tell which parts are real and which parts were made up. As a novel, it lacks coherence, and the plot is confusing and inconclusive. That sort of thing is acceptable in Strieber's non-fiction alien abduction stories ("Communion" et al.), but fiction requires more structure.Readers familiar with the "Communion" cycle will notice that many episodes in "Majestic" are cut-and-pasted from Strieber's nonfiction -- but, somehow, told with less proficiency than in the nonfiction originals. Will Stone has some of the same childhood experiences as Whitley Strieber himself (I wonder if the similarity of the names is intentional?), but somehow those experiences have been drained of their poetry. Quotes from the Strieber's nonfiction are imported (repeatedly!) into "Majestic," but in clumsily paraphrased form (The haunting, "Why do you call on your Gods? It's only us," becomes the clunky, "Why do you call on your Gods? We're the only ones here."). The human characters are flat, and often just don't act like real people. It's okay for the aliens to act like aliens, but he has the humans act like aliens too! This reaches its nadir in what is perhaps the most embarrassingly bad (and thoroughly unbelievable) sex scene I've ever been exposed to. If you want to get into Strieber, read the "Communion" cycle. "Majestic" is only a poor imitation.
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Summary: Read it. Love it. Dream of it.
Review: This book completely transfixed me! It's a truly engrosing read that you're sure not forget. I read it first years ago from the library and have been looking everywhere to buy a copy for myself! Only now have I found it. I was stuck to this book the moment I picked it up and even now, years later, I still find myself thingking of it! He deftly belnds what little fact is known of the Roswell crach and blends it with his own extrapolations. What makes the book so remarkable are those extrapolations. They seem completely plausible and realistic and are meticulously thought out. Every detail seems to make sense and drawns you further into the world he has created. Wether any of his extrapolations are correct is what keeps you thinking about the book. Trying to figure out if there was something he forgot or something that just doesn't add up. If you want an engaging read, one that presents a puzzle to be solved andtold in the most entertaining and engaging ways, then this book is for you!
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Summary: Read it. Love it. Dream of it.
Review: This book completely transfixed me! It's a truly engrosing read that you're sure not forget. I read it first years ago from the library and have been looking everywhere to buy a copy for myself! Only now have I found it. I was stuck to this book the moment I picked it up and even now, years later, I still find myself thingking of it! He deftly belnds what little fact is known of the Roswell crach and blends it with his own extrapolations. What makes the book so remarkable are those extrapolations. They seem completely plausible and realistic and are meticulously thought out. Every detail seems to make sense and drawns you further into the world he has created. Wether any of his extrapolations are correct is what keeps you thinking about the book. Trying to figure out if there was something he forgot or something that just doesn't add up. If you want an engaging read, one that presents a puzzle to be solved andtold in the most entertaining and engaging ways, then this book is for you!
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Summary: Imagine the X-Files...from the Government's side
Review: This is one of the most compulsively readable books I've chewed through in quite a while. In seamlessly blending fact and fiction, Streiber creates a book much more compelling his treacly personal accounts of the aliens. In his hands the concept a government conspiracy to cover up the truth of a UFO crash in Roswell, New Mexico does more than make sense--it seems downright logical.
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Summary: Roswell, the beginning of technological advancement
Review: This was a very interesting book. I truly believe there was a cover-up. There has been exponential growth in technolgy since this time. Do you suppose we had help ? I read this book some time ago and lent my copy out to others and it has since disappeared. I am looking to find how to get a new copy so I can refresh my memory.
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Summary: Strieber's return to fiction lacks creative magic.
Review: Whitley Strieber, after writing two non-fiction accounts of his experiences with apparent non-human intelligence, returned to the fiction arena with this rather uninspired novel about the infamous Roswell incident. Strieber breaks no new ground, simply retelling the documented events and, when the time comes to fill in the blanks, he lets the book slip into confusing pseudo-mysticism and offers no concrete payoff. A real disappointment from a writer I have sadly become used to being disappointed by.
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