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Summary: Good read and some really new information
Review: Excellent reading with some really new information. The research, writing and organization of material by the Author is way above average. If you haven't bought a general review of UFOs, Alien Contact, and Secret Government Conspiracy, then I'd say this is a 'must read.' Also, Dr. Paul Hill's Unconvential Flying Objects has lenghty details about the crafts and sightings that will please both the novice and scientist. And of course Brad Steiger's Alien Rapture is in a category all by itself in combining an exciting novel with newly released documents and detailed description of the flying triangle as well as why the government(s) have kept the secret and what is at stake. I've read all three of these selections from Amazon and I suggest you read all the reviews before buying. For the first timer, this is an excellent general guide to read. I highly recommend you check out all of Jim Marrs books on Amazon. This is just one example of his amazing writing and research.
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Summary: A Must Read!!!
Review: Alien Agenda by Jim Marrs is an excellent book for people studying the UFO subject for the first time. This book contains a good overview of all basic UFO subjects. The author covers a lot of ground: Ancient Astronaut theory, Roswell, abductions, sightings, close encounters of the 4th kind, goverment cover-ups, etc. The book details UFOlogy and a plain and simple manner that it's easy to understand. Plus, the book is fun to read. Jim Marrs didn't write this book for entertainment; he's a serious author who doesn't take UFOlogy lightly. Mr. Marrs is a professional journalist and highly respected. This book should be in the personal library of anyone interested in the UFO topic.
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Summary: A disaster
Review: Someone should write a book about why Marrs continues to write books about things he can't prove. Not only is this badly written, but Marrs does a fabulous job of presenting only 1 side of the argument--his own. "Witness testimony" is all fine and dandy, but why is that Marrs can't ever come up with proof for his claims? Oh wait, the U.S. Government covers it all up. Good Lord, do people really buy into that garbage, or do they just want to believe it? The latter is my opinion. Until Marrs can show pictures of these "aliens", his arguments will continue to be shot down. Maybe the Majestic 12 has all those aliens over for Sunday dinner, but I suspect the truth lies in the hyperactive imaginations of "eyewitnesses" and "experts".
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Summary: A great reference book for the novice.
Review: Good read but Nothing New except excelleent writing and organization of material by the Author. Had I not read every other book in this genre, I would have liked this book a lot better. If you haven't bought a general review of UFOs, Alien Contact, and Secret Government Conspiracy, then I'd say buy it. However, Dr. Paul Hill's Unconvential Flying Objects has lenghty details about the crafts and sightings that will please both the novice and scientist. Brad Steiger's Alien Rapture is in a category all by itself in combining an exciting novel with newly released documents and detailed description of the flying triangle as well as why the government(s) have kept the secret and what is at stake. I've read all three of these selections from Amazon and read all the reviews before buying. For the first timer, this is an excellent general guide to read.
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Summary: Easy to read
Review: This book is not full of rhetoric but loads of reference and witness testimony. It was easy to read as the words flowed and every sentence made sense. Even the skeptic will find credible detail to this controversial phenomenon. There are some surprises as the title of the book suggests. If you want something more than cliche stories of alien abductions and flying saucers, this book will likely do the trick.
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Summary: Probably the most thoughtful book on subject.
Review: This book by far exceeds others in clarity, honesty, and breath. The book lays its position on the line to let us know just where it stands, namely, skeptical of official, establishment answers to the ufo dilemma. Yet the book does not present a hardcore conspiracy theory. It's commentary is historically informed, smart, and subtle. Time and again, when you think all has been said about crop-circles, cattle mutilation, Billy Miers, etc., this book goes beyond simple, black-and-white analysis to reveal the true complexity of the ufo matter. What this all means, of course, is that as Marrs says toward the end of the book, ufologically speaking things have come to a head. Indeed, this is the one shortcoming of this type of book: there would seem to be no way forward after ufos have subsumed so many mysteries from bridges on the moon to animal multilations in Montana. What's left to the agenda? The book doesn't ask this question explicitly but unlike so many other ufo books, it brings us to the edge where this question must now be asked.
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Summary: Excellent!
Review: UFOs and ETs are by they very nature controversial subjects. Jim Marrs does a fantastic job in this book of taking the majority of UFO lore and condensing into one fascinating read. I have read many books on the subject and most of them are poorly written and/or leaps in logic are of olympian proportions. Not so with this book. The narrative is both fascinating and well thought out at the same time. I would definitley recommend this book as an intorduction to UFOology.
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Summary: Credulous but absorbing
Review: Jim Marrs' "Alien Agenda" is a compulsive overview of all things ufological: contacts and sightings, crop circles, cattle mutilations, saucer crashes, remote viewing and government coverups. While "Alien Agenda" is an extremely fun literary expedition, most of the stories related by Marrs can be found elsewhere; students of ufology are likely to be disappointed in the scattered nature of the author's original insights. Regardless, Marrs creates a panoramic look at the turn-of-the-millennium UFO scene that entertains and fascinates. For readers unfamiliar with the subject of UFOs, "Alien Agenda" is likely to be an astonishing--if overly credulous--treat.
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Summary: Big letdown
Review: I had just read "The Threat", and picked up "Alien Agenda" to get a different perspective. Unfortunately, this book quickly fell into the worst of conspiracy fluff. Starting with the notion that the moon is a hollow spaceship that was sent through space billions of years ago, this book threw every outrageous claim together in one book. Some claims even conflicted. For example, the "Greys" are either from Pleiades or Zeta Reticuli or Mars. All three are claimed in the book. The book was also riddled with typos, including one in the very first paragraph, and ended with a re-hash of the authors "Rule By Secrecy" book, in which the Federal Reserve is really just a conspiracy platform created by the richest of European banking interests. A real dud.
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Summary: Mixed bag
Review: I am one of those people with a graduate degree in the physical sciences who believes in the reality of UFO's and the grand government conspiracy. Marrs' book is a very good survey course of the subject; it should be offered as the textbook to UFO's 101 at junior colleges. My complaint, and I would downgrade my rating of the book to 3.5 stars if I could, is its lack of critical scientific evaluation. Marrs often makes statements that are actually meaningless when analyzed for scientific content. And worse - just plain ignorant of basic scientific knowledge. A typical case is the assertion that telescopes must have existed before the accepted date of invention, because there is a reference to Andromeda in a medieval star map, and the Andromeda galaxy cannot be resolved without a telescope. Yo - the Andromeda Galaxy lies within the Andromeda constellation. "Andromeda was one of the earliest of constellations to be named by the ancient Greek astronomers. Her name means "Chained Princess", and according to Greek mythology she was the daughter of King Cepheus and Queen Cassiopeia." It's this sort of thing that made me nervous reading the book. Jim is a very good investigative reporter, but he just doesn't know enough science to keep himself out of quicksand. He should have used a science editor to catch these gaffs, and the book would have a much enhanced value. Nevertheless, as a journeyman in this field for 45 years, I still found it valuable for new leads and an interesting overview.
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