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Summary: An Excellent Expedition Into The Areas Of Ufology:
Review: This book is not only fascinating, but informative. John Keel's book is suspenseful. I never knew much about what happened in Point Pleasant until I read this book. The movie is not even close to the greatness of the book. Mothman was actually called mothman off of a villain's name on Batman. In the book, the couple who answered the door for John Keel (John Klein in the movie) died in the Silver Bridge Tragedy.
There are many interesting facts in The Mothman Prophecies.I think that this is a good book for Ufology fans.I very strongly disagree with anyone who gives this book a low rating.If you want to learn about MIB's,UFO's,Mothman,strange creatures, and Tulpas (mind projections), this is a good book to teach you all about these areas.
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Summary: BORING!
Review: The subject matter is fascinating and has the potential to make an exciting, fast moving read. Unfortunately the presentation is disorganized, repetetive and BORING. I had to force myself to finish the thing and ended up wondering what the heck the point was meant to be. I certainly didn't feel that I had acquired any clear understanding of what happened in Point Pleasant; I didn't even get enough out of it to decide whether I believe any of the stories or not. If you want the book, borrow it from someone and save your money.
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Summary: The Mothman in Bits and Pieces
Review: This book is NOT like the movie. In fact, I prefer the movie. The book is composed of bits and pieces of John Keel's and others' phenomenal experiences. It is difficult to read, not only because of the bad press printing, but also because it is very clipped and disjointed. I bought this book to delve further after seeing the movie, and ended up more confused. Go to the movie--forget the book!
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Summary: excellent
Review: i saw the book before the movie and the book blew me away...although there are some differences, it was just as good as the movie. loved it.
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Summary: What a bunch of baloney !
Review: I like reading from time to time about unexplained phenomena. Why have I bought this book ? - it is another unexplained thing to me; probably happened because I noticed that motion picture had been made based on this story.
What a flop it is !
There is hardly any action in this text and I can't imagine how somebody was able to create anything suitable for big screen.
Book is simply boring, nothing but repetitive descriptions of very old, supposedly true experiences and "facts" related to strange lights, poltergeists, UFOs, Men In Black and other encountered critters. Whole information is presented in a very chaotic and mixed up way. Facts are taken from all kind of local trashy newspapers, old UFO magazines and questionable at best police reports, as if these were proof of anything.
Besides, today in XXI century, after more than 40 years (book was published in 1975 and tells about events taking place in 50es and 60es), UFO and paranormal researchers try different approaches and changed their attempts to explain "unexplained". Views presented by the author are simply naïve, outdated and archaic.
He crammed in the same sack: angels, Beelzebub, MIBs, flying dragons, vampires, robots, haunted places, creatures from different spaces and dimensions, ancient history, believes and you name it.
"The Mothman Prophecies" is good for kids, grade 7 max, who like intriguing horror stories but not for adults who like to read more serious stuff about strange and unknown happenings.
I had enough of this rubbish in the middle of it and tossed this book into the garbage.
Luckily it was cheap. Do not waste your time reading; it is worse than tabloids standing on display in your local grocery store.
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Summary: another Keel great
Review: If you're into the strange and unexplained,UFOs,strange creatures,then John Keel will never disappoint you.This book provided hours of pleasant reading but it should've been named "My ordeal with the Men In Black" because the actual material involving the Mothman is miniscule compared to the frightening ordeal he describes involving the MIB.
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Summary: Truth isn't that hard to find.
Review: Keel is a true investigator. He leaves no path untread upon in his search for the truth behind the UFO phenomenon. His countless accounts of the Men in Black and their games will inform you as to their place in all of this, frighten you and even make you laugh out loud. His work helps defend the theory that aliens are inter-dimensional rather than extra-terrestrial. Even if you are not a UFO buff, this is a smooth, yet thorough induction into this strange and all too close world. Even for you non-believers, the connections made in this book will at the very least gnaw at you and most definately entertain you. I've probably read over a hundred books on paranormal and UFOs and still have them. I found 'Alien Agenda' by Marrs and 'Alien Rapture by Fouche - Steiger to be my favorites, and I have read them more than once. Alien Rapture - The Chosen by Fouche is being made into a screen-play by a major studio in Burbank CA. Also see all the books by Jim Marrs.
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Summary: Unidentified Reading Object
Review: I approached this book with a fairly open mind, expecting to read an interesting story about the strange events of 1967. Unfortunately, Mr. Keel's tendency to ramble and a strange, albeit somewhat fascinating, mixture of conspiracy theories, "ufo" sightings and Men in Black stories made the book an incoherent mess. The book begins and ends with the events of Point Pleasant, and spends the middle attempting to connect those events with literally hundreds of other experiences throughout the world and throughout history. ...
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Summary: These are the 100 proof XXX files
Review: You'd have thought it would be a quantum physicist, but it was the great biologist J.B.S. Haldane who said, "I suspect that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose." John Keel's most seminal work is dedicated to the proposition that the universe is even queerer than that. Is he for real? Is the universe for real? Did any of this mishegass, other than the briefly famous bridge collapse, really happen? I don't know; but there is no better guide into the surreal realms of "high strangeness" than Mr. Keel, and if you can suspend disbelief for a couple of hundred pages, you will at the very least have heard the creepiest campfire story ever told. More than any other living writer, Keel has inherited the slippery mantle of the late great Charles Fort. He shares Fort's daring, his sardonic sense of humor, his tender concern that "damned" facts not disappear into oblivion, his naive acceptance of every story that comes down the pike, his generous willingness to entertain any theory, and his delight in watching perverse phenomena blow every theory to smash. But if Keel's really a reincarnation, then Fort must have learned how to write during his last go-round in the Bardo, because Fort was hard slogging and this book is a zippy ride. What Keel gives us is a set-piece blocking all exits from what might as well be known as Keel's Law: "Ufology is a subdiscipline of demonology." He gives us a community and a year, Point Pleasant West Virginia in 1966, where UFOs are nearly as common as fireflies, where eight-foot birds with glowing eyes engage in VTOLs without moving their wings, where Men In Black patrol the streets and synchronicities run riot, where insectoid voices control the horizontal and the vertical on phone lines AT&T thought belonged to them, where contactees receive eerily precise prophecies that are wrong about everything except their specifics. Keel draws no coherent lesson from all this, except that we are cockeyed optimists if we persist in thinking of reality as coherent.
Personally, I suspect that Keel's Law is right, and further that demonology is also a subdiscipline of psychology, but of a psychology that academia has not yet begun to penetrate, and would be well advised to look into carefully. (Check out Bryan's book "Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind", about an abductee conference that MIT was once tricked into hosting, for some initial clues about the trail such a psychology might follow.) In any case, this book demands a place on any shelf of UFO literature, however short. It represents a nutty, true-unbeliever extreme by dint of which the rest of the shelf, the skeptical and the puzzled and the true believers alike, will be kept honest.
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Summary: Thought provoking, but....
Review: Overall this was an entertaining and thought provoking book. Very little is mentioned about the mothman compared to UFOs, MIB, stange lights and cattle mutations. I did find Keels thoughts on vampires, angels and UFOs being all from the same entity very interesting. I kept finding myself wondering if Keel was overly paranoid, however this may well be the point. Are all people who encounter UFO's paranoid or are there powers at work that make them and us think they are paranoid? Now, I'm sounding paranoid! Because of this book, I will continue to read on UFO's , and for that reason I liked the book.
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