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Summary: Don't let skeptics deprive you of this book.
Review: Not being paranoid but I wonder if some of the negative reviewshere are just disinformation. It is obvious Sherman is not a clerk anda quite high-level operative in the USAF to be assigned a blackproject, not to mention a "grey" (alien) project. END
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Summary: poorly conceived fairy tale
Review: The author hasn't even bothered to create convincing characters or get his story straight before foisting this on the public as fact. His players talk in stilted, b-script fashion, and his story has no consistency or cohesion. My guess is, this is someone who wanted to write science fiction, but hasn't the talent for it, and so is cashing in on the current willingness of the American public to shell out cash for anything smacking of aliens and government conspiracy. And consider this: If his reasons for writing it were as altruistic as he claims, and his need to communicate the information so vital, it's unlikely he'd post 3 chapters on a website as a "teaser" and then say "if you want any real info, pay up." That's the technique of a side show barker, not a man with a true story he desperately wants the public to hear. Save your money!
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Summary: You've Got To Be Kidding Me!
Review: The writing is poor and the editing is a once over with a word processor spell checker. I cannot believe anything this author is saying. I do believe in the UFO cover-up, but I think this is made up and a rehash of other books in this genre. Try Dr. Paul Hills 'Unconventional Flying Objects' or the best selling author Jim Marr's 'Alien Agenda' or even Steiger's 'Rainbow Conspiracy' before bying this 'Tale'.
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Summary: Failed author with amateurish story.
Review: This book could have been summed up in about 25 pages. The "information", if you can call it information, is vague and almost nonexistant. This could be because of legal reasons and/or national security. This reader found this book very disappointing. It promises more than it delivered.
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Summary: Above Black /// Project Preserve Destiny
Review: This book could have been summed up in about 25 pages. The "information", if you can call it information, is vague and almost nonexistant. This could be because of legal reasons and/or national security. This reader found this book very disappointing. It promises more than it delivered.
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Summary: Believe the Truth or dismiss it and believe the lie
Review: This book is believable. He has a blunt writing style. Dan Sherman was not trying to write an episode to a sci-fi low budget TV show, he was telling about his experiences in the Air Force communicating with aliens. I could tell that this was a true story when I was reading the part of when he tried to describe how he communicated with the aliens. He had much difficulty describing it. I suggest you read the book. The reader familiar with the whole UFO deal will enjoy the part about "black" projects. I think that black projects are used to discount the ET explanation for things, such as saying it was a military aircraft not a UFO (when sometimes it is a UFO), which I believe is enforced in this book. Good book, will help you connect some dots.
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Summary: Not worth the money
Review: This book, Above Black, is worth a short article on a website. It is not worth $18.00. I am not doubting or questioning Mr Sherman's veracity. His discription of military insensitivity and half-baked security shenanigans is typical of our government. By now the notion that the US government is up to its ears in various little black [or above black, whatever] programs involving folks from elsewhere is not news, nor is there any other news to be had in this book. You get about ten minutes worth of trivial mental chatting with someone probably from elsewhere. Big damn deal. Nothing of any especial significance is reported. Mr Sherman chose to terminate his involvement, which is his right to do, but is coy as to how he managed this. It doesn't matter. I just cannot recommend to anyone spending $18.00 to get so little information, none of it news.
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Summary: They publish this stuff?
Review: This is, without a doubt, the worst book I have ever read. The writing is juvenile and lacking in focus. The subject matter is two giant steps beyond paranoid. I kept wondering if it could get any worse only to discover that it could. I'm hopeful that this is a singular effort by the author and that more works of fiction are not in his future. Read this book only if you need to feel better about your own aborted writing projects. The only thing I got from this tome was an appreciation for the need of limits to personal expression.
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Summary: severe problems
Review: Well, actually I wasn't sure whether to give this book 1 star or 5 stars. It is ending up on the bottom end of the scale for the following reasons.The main problem I have is that amazon is charging $.. for it! The cover price on the book is actually ..! Furthermore, you can order it for $.. from the author's website (aboveblack.com), or download the e-book for free. I've never seen amazon charging... than the cover price... I'm fairly disgruntled about that. It should be known by all before ordering that this book is 147 pages & all in a very large font size. I read the whole thing in under 2 hours. The next thing that really brings me pause is the obvious negative spamming in the reviews here. On the other hand, I'm also highly skeptical of the contents of the positive reviews here. The only critical analysis I've found so far is here < http://www.ufomind.com/area51/list/1997/nov/a25-003.shtml > - unfortunately it is full of holes (disinfo?), and was obviously written by someone who didn't closely read the book (which is strange, as it is such an easy read). Croydon Kemp's review here is about the only one that _really_ makes sense... Before I go on to my actual criticisms, the things that are worth knowing about here are: 1) the description of the classification system & of the "onion effect" (pages 39-41) & 2) the description of Sherman's activities in PPD, which sounds suspiciously like an anti-remote viewing, or remote influencing, project - see p 105 "Our communicationans are only being monitored through your reports so as to calculate an accuracy factor." Trying to be as succint as possible about the discrepancies/problems in this book, without giving away everything: a - when Sherman's contact Captain White tells him his mother was abducted for "genetic manipulation" (after he had supposedly driven for 18 hours straight, and should have been highly stressed), Sherman just sits there listening. I (and probably most of the people I know) would have gone nuts at that point. b - Most of Sherman's questions were answered with a blanket "This is above top secret, you don't have a need to know". But the whole "alien" angle could've been covered with another story - why did he have a "need to know" about the alien angle? It smacks of cover story. c - There is something wrong with the whole issue of the software he used to report his communications (partially covered by Louttit's critique, url above). This just doesn't sound secure... The whole alien angle is just bought into, blithely and without question, by Sherman. It sounds SO much like a cover story, that I find it peculiar that Sherman never mentions that. There is a great deal more that could have been said about the author's experiences (a "speculation" section or something) that would have made this more worthwhile. I really wish the author would add a public message board to his web site for discussion of these issues & others raised by his book.
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Summary: A must read
Review: Whether you believe in alien life and UFO's or not, Dan Sherman's book Above Black is a very entertaining and compelling read from start to finish. Mr Sherman tells "just the facts maam" without a heap of personal therories and speculation which lends to the credibility of Dan and his story. You will not want to put this one down.
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