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Summary: Ta Keel Ya!
Review: As an investigative record of bizarre experiences, some first hand, The Mothman Prophesies is as timely and interesting a read now as it was when it was first published almost thirty years ago. I disagree with some of Keel's conclusions, at least with respect to them being the final word in what is obviously an ongoing puzzle, but he points to some very interesting possibilities. His notions are well worth adding to the soup of the still bubbling mystery that such bizarre experiences as Mothman, MIBs, strange aerial lights, odd electrical and poltergeist effects, etc., represent.That much if not all of what is reported is Earth-related does not lessen the difficulty of asserting categorically that "extradimensional" beings are entirely localized. The possibility of worlds without end lie that way, whether connected by wormholes or whatever in this dimension or in other layers outside of this one. I'd bet John a bottle of HERRADURA SELECCION SUPREMA tequila that our multilayered universe is full of life in many forms, mostly unexpected, and that this will become obvious far sooner than later (in the next hundred years at least). -- Randy
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Summary: Flies By Night
Review: The Mothman Prophecies' weakness may lie in the ongoing lists of people who have sightings of strange lights and nonhumans, not to mention the MIBs in the book, but it also is its strength. At times the reader would like to read more about a particular case history--more detail--more follow-up. The lack of this information may lead the reader to feel shortchanged. On the other hand the excessive number of people having encounters lends to the credibility of the book, especially so with the witnesses in Point Pleasant, West Virginia where the mothman is first seen on November 15, 1967. The book's climatic end is expected with the diaster on December 15, 1968.
John Keel's "Mothman" is undoubtably a classic, not only for ufologists but for mainstream readers as well, more particularly now that the release of the "Mothman movie is imminent. P L Brown
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Summary: Very Detailed and Never Ending
Review: I usually like the books better than the movie. It is an interesting book although it touches on everything and seems to repeat itself time after time. The movie focused more on the actual "mothman" and I felt the book just mentioned it among many other things. This book should have been named "Mothman, Men In Black, UFOS, and the Kitchen Sink." I was glad to be done with this book. Don't waste your money on this book, check it out from the library.
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Summary: Is this a first draft?
Review: The little content contained is interesting.
However, the entire book is short chapters of journal notes with the occasional splash of commentary thrown in.
Badly written, poorly organized.
He could have at least organized it chronologically. The constant way of making himself out to be
some sort of superhero got very annoying very quickly.
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Summary: Has the Feel of Truth
Review: This book is fascinating reading. It 'rings true to me'. Mr. Keel tells the reader when he's scared, looking for more information or not sure what he's seeing. I think he's very up front and honest. There is much I think that can be learned by Mr. Keel's experiences and interviews. Men In Black, Ufo's, and strange sounds are all in this book. Monsters and mysteries that prove we don't know everything on this Earth and in this universe yet. My one big complaint and why it's rated a four rather than a five is that many times Mr. Keel gets off track in his writing. This leaves the reader a bit confused and forced to back track at times. Further, I find many times I would have been going back to find more information and it doesn't seem he does that, at least not in the book. This is frustrating for me. I'd like more information, more about the interviews he conducted etc. Not a bad book over all. Just a few not so positive thoughts on it. I enjoyed it and read it in about two days. Enjoy.
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Summary: Boring & Unbelievable Story
Review: Normally, I prefer books to movies, but Mothman Prophecies was not only boring, but unbelievable. Non-fiction! The story was a product of the author's imagination. Perhaps in 1975, when the novel was first copywritten, it was spectacular. To those who are thinking of purchasing this book, (especially after viewing the movie) I'd say pass it up, and purchase the VHS or DVD.
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Summary: The Mothman Prophecies
Review: The Mothman Prophecies is a great book. Even though the book isn't very organized, if you look hard enough, you gain somewhat of an understanding about the FBI, MIB (Men in Black), the mothman and other paranormal creatures. This book tells the stories of the people that live in Point Pleasant, West Virginia, who are witnesses to the Mothman and UFO's. Throughout this book John A. Keel gets off the subject and sometimes the book doesn't always make sense. But, don't let that bother you. Despite the fact that this book has no point and is plotless it is still a great book. It's a suspenseful page-turner and even leaves you questioning which stories were real and which stories weren't.
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Summary: They're Here! Truth can leave you breathless
Review: I saw the movie and had to have the book. This book is very scary leaving you grasping for the truth. I was actually scared to the point of turning lights on in my house! I am not usually a fraidy cat like that, but jeesh. Monsters can be killed. Vampires can be staked. Mummies can be burned. Ghost can be lead into the light. What do you do to ward off a creature from another dimension or time or planet that has a hot laser and ain't 'fraid to use it? Nothing as you'll read in the masterful tale of suspense and honesty. Mr. Keel will come right out and tell you when he and others are afraid, hurt, and run for their lives. This book FEELS true in many aspects. My recommendation - read this during the day and try not to think of it at night. Don't answer the door, turn off the phone (if you can), and call a buddy. This ain't your momma's UFO.
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Summary: A different delight from the movie
Review: When I heard a movie was to be made of "The Mothman Prophecies" I was jubilant not only because of the opportunity to see how the Pt. Pleasant phenomena would play out on film but because I knew the movie would bring attention to the mesmerizing, enjoyable, book, which I have owned for decades. The filmmakers wove a fictional story-structure in which to inplant just a few of the bizarre happenings reported in John Keel's book, and I feel they did about about as well as I could have hoped. I was thoroughly engaged by storyline, acting, and the kernels of Keel's theories that were retained and presented. But readers need to understand the difference between a cohesive yarn set in the present and the disjointed happenings that took place decades ago in West Va. A goodly number of reviewers of the book have picked up on Keel's contention that these spooky thingees, whether sporting wings or dressed in funereal black and not quite "passing" as real folks, are mutable in form but consistent in intent: they love to mess with humans. Somewhere in interdimensional space or nonspace they probably get together and cackle with glee over how to torment us next. As an orthodox Christian (an Episcopalian who believes ALL that creed I recite weekly)I happen to believe that the weird beasts and beings one encounters and all the phenomena that surrounds them like Pigpen's dust clouds during a flap such as the one in Pt. Pleasant are, forgive the non-PC term, demonic. As in from Satan--as in hanging out with the fallen angels. I'm sure Mr. Keel, and many others who've enjoyed the basic contention of the book (and movie), would be more comfortable with the less religiously charged terms "psychic beings," "interdimensional creatures," and similar names. But Mr. Keel, the movie, and I are all headed to the same basic idea: you should avoid these things and ignore them as much as possible. Let them in an inch, and there goes YOUR neighborhood. As in the movie, don't answer that phone; as in the immortal words of Ogden Nash, "If called by a panther, don't anther!"
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Summary: Are you joking?
Review: I'm giving it one star because less isn't possible here. You people _do_ realize that this book and all others of its kind are complete and utter fiction, right? There is and can be no truth behind them whatsoever: no science, no documentary or physical evidence, nothing! There are no MIBs (except in the movies), no secret "conspiracies" to hide evidence of alien visitations, no alien abductions,... absolutely none of this book or any of its kind are true. Ask yourselves: If this is really true, then why, with our government so unable to keep secrets about presidential peccadillos, financial scandals, politcal dirty tricks, payoffs, espionage and intelligence screwups and the like, how any "conspiracy" of this magnitude escaped detection and revelation? It simply makes no sense. It is pure entertainment, nothing more.
And you Five-Star reviewers have credit cards....?
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