- Taschenbuch: 288 Seiten
- Verlag: New Leaf Distribution Company; Auflage: Reissue (Januar 1997)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0380705354
- ISBN-13: 978-0380705351
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 17 x 10,7 x 2 cm
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 1.676.647 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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The Best that Whitley Strieber Has to Offer!
31. August 1998
Format:Taschenbuch
This book is the most compelling book about Alien Encounters that I have ever read. It is a brutally honest account of one man's struggle for complete understanding of what is happening to him. I have been a critic of Strieber's more recent books. This, his second book of the Visitor Phenomenon, better captures his feelings while he still had an honest perception of them.
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Clarifications only muddy the already darkened waters
3. Juni 2000
Format:Taschenbuch
Whitley Strieber felt the compulsion to further explore the events he described in Communion and clear up some facts. He only makes the reader doubt him more. More hearsay and nothing truly concrete, unless you take the author's continual statements of truthfulness at face value. Will frustrate even the most forgiving of readers. I still found it interesting reading, but just barely.
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Communion follow-up: recommended only for the Strieber devotee
15. November 2010
This book was written concurrently with the author's international bestseller "Communion" and published just one year later. It turns out Strieber had always intended for his exploration of what happened to him with the visitors to become a publishing series, starting with "Communion" (which is genuinely worth reading) and continuing through further volumes, which sold far less well and are not so highly regarded.
Whereas "Communion" has a simple, visceral power and reads as a coherent, chronological narrative about the author's experiences with the visitors, "Transformation" is more a collection of recollections and speculations which didn't make it into the first book. It jumps from one idea to another and is less focussed than the first volume, though it does contain some interesting stuff. Further abductions both of Whitley and his son Andrew (whose real name is used in this book) are described, some of which do read as dream-like; their reality is degraded by the uncomfortable fact that, whereas thousands of abduction accounts from other abductees describe exactly the same beings and processes, Strieber's are in many details unique and different. This is usually a red flag, and lends support to the contention expressed by many that Strieber "has a hard time telling fact from fiction."
At the core of "Transformation" is the author's struggle to find the meaning of the experience, and here he goes way off the map. He journeys into metaphysical and rather new-age territory as he comes to believe the visitors recycle souls, and that the Earth is a kind of "school." There are echoes of Jim Sparks' writings in the self-indulgent, obsessively introspective narcissism which characterises much of the book's content.
Strieber is still a good writer though, and this is the saving grace of "Transformation." From the pen of a less competent writer it might read as a rambling incoherent mess, a meandering tract of new-age mumbo-jumbo. However the book is better than that: it's just nowhere near as good as "Communion" and doesn't make any lasting contribution to the understanding of what is going on with this pervasive phenomenon - though it pretends it does.
In summary, "Transformation" would be of interest mainly to the devotee of Strieber's writing (and he's admittedly a good writer), or to anyone who wants to read everything ever written about the abduction/visitor issue. It's OK, but not one of the better books on the subject.
Whereas "Communion" has a simple, visceral power and reads as a coherent, chronological narrative about the author's experiences with the visitors, "Transformation" is more a collection of recollections and speculations which didn't make it into the first book. It jumps from one idea to another and is less focussed than the first volume, though it does contain some interesting stuff. Further abductions both of Whitley and his son Andrew (whose real name is used in this book) are described, some of which do read as dream-like; their reality is degraded by the uncomfortable fact that, whereas thousands of abduction accounts from other abductees describe exactly the same beings and processes, Strieber's are in many details unique and different. This is usually a red flag, and lends support to the contention expressed by many that Strieber "has a hard time telling fact from fiction."
At the core of "Transformation" is the author's struggle to find the meaning of the experience, and here he goes way off the map. He journeys into metaphysical and rather new-age territory as he comes to believe the visitors recycle souls, and that the Earth is a kind of "school." There are echoes of Jim Sparks' writings in the self-indulgent, obsessively introspective narcissism which characterises much of the book's content.
Strieber is still a good writer though, and this is the saving grace of "Transformation." From the pen of a less competent writer it might read as a rambling incoherent mess, a meandering tract of new-age mumbo-jumbo. However the book is better than that: it's just nowhere near as good as "Communion" and doesn't make any lasting contribution to the understanding of what is going on with this pervasive phenomenon - though it pretends it does.
In summary, "Transformation" would be of interest mainly to the devotee of Strieber's writing (and he's admittedly a good writer), or to anyone who wants to read everything ever written about the abduction/visitor issue. It's OK, but not one of the better books on the subject.
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