GRAYS [CD-ROM]

WHITLEY STRIEBER (Author)

Product Details

• CD-ROM
• Publisher: AUDIO RENAISSANCE (2006)
• ASIN: B000KVEHCQ
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (89 customer reviews)

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37 of 45 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Scary and Satisfying, August 19, 2006

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Will Bueche (Boulder, CO) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Grays (Hardcover)

The Grays is a thriller about a young military woman who is assigned to a peculiar and dangerous job, and a boy living in a small college town who is unfortunate enough to receive attention from both strange, sky-dwelling beings and from a military cabal. The loyalties of the young military woman are severely tested as matters of national security collide with matters of human survival.

With unique depictions of threats generated by an alien presence - threats fueled as much by human paranoia as by alien intention - this thriller's spy games are scary and satisfying on many levels. Said to be informed by the real life alien encounters of the author (written of in his 1987 NY Times best-selling book Communion), The Grays is also inspired by the author's passion for environmental responsibility. In an earlier novel he'd written about a terrible leader who tried to avert environmental apocalypse by euthenizing a third of the planet's population. A similar scenario is revisited in The Grays, as politicians conceive of ways to escape from a fate they fear - incorrectly - could end the human race entirely.

This is not a horror novel, though frights come steadily. The underlying horror in the novel is in how Strieber's characters find themselves trapped between the fear of the unknown and the fear of the known - and must make life or death choices in this "gray area". Recommended.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A good book, June 15, 2007

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Randy Wolf (Seattle, Wa United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Grays (Mass Market Paperback)

Even though I think the whole UFO thing is ridiculous I enjoyed this book. Say what you want about Whitley Strieber, and I have enjoyed his other books as well, the difference between this story and other far fetched UFO/alien stories is the writer. Whitley Strieber is an excellent writer but he actually believes this UFO stuff so there is added passion in his writing. Kind of like Carl Sagan writing about physics.

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fast and fascinating, August 29, 2006

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George A. Ramos "Books and Kindle" (Montreal, Quebec) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Grays (Hardcover)

Initially expecting a sci-fi cliche with heavy doses of paranoia, this book blew my mind with it's absolutely fascinating ideas. The chapters come fast and furious, and yet each one has a small gem of insight, one that would cause me to shut the book and think about what just happened.

Why do the characters react the way they do? Sometimes afraid, sometimes brilliant, sometimes mindless animals, I realized these are fully-fleshed, real characters that behave the way real people do. Mr. Strieber's insight into human behavior is masterful and lends a heavy realism to the book.

The scenes involving non-humans are both terrifying and mind-blowing. The pages flew by as I was riveted by these scenes, captivated by one surprise after another. I've never read anything like this before, particularly the pages that delve into mind of the non-humans.

The book reads like a spy thriller, though one with a beating, human heart at its core. The book is short, and the large cast of characters barely have enough time to process what's happening, swept away by events and revelations the same way the reader is torn from the mundane by this high-energy dynamo of a novel.

Believer in UFO lore or not, you'll love this book if you love fiction. It's worth the few sleepless nights you'll devote to it.