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Majestic

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Don't listen to the negative reviews of this book. I've read this book as a skeptic and came out stunned by the content inside. No other book has effected me, EVER, so don't think I'm a Jim Jones lost soul looking for the answers to the universe. I am a scientist first and foremost and I found this riveting.

I gave away my first copy to friend who made me look like a UFO fanatic. He didn't believe anything suspicious and came out with wide eyes and a whole new perspective on things. It's not that this book is a literal translation of one man's journey, but the facts that are true that are embedded in the story match nearly all published information about the crash.

Whitley does an amazing job bringing all the known facts under one roof. This non-fiction book will blow your proverbial mind into little tiny not-so-skeptical pieces. READ THIS BOOK, if you're the slightest fan of this information. Otherwise, know that you have skipped the best book ever written on the subject.

This is one of the most compulsively readable books I've chewed through in quite a while. In seamlessly blending fact and fiction, Streiber creates a book much more compelling his treacly personal accounts of the aliens. In his hands the concept a government conspiracy to cover up the truth of a UFO crash in Roswell, New Mexico does more than make sense--it seems downright logical.

This book completely transfixed me! It's a truly engrosing read that you're sure not forget. I read it first years ago from the library and have been looking everywhere to buy a copy for myself! Only now have I found it.

I was stuck to this book the moment I picked it up and even now, years later, I still find myself thingking of it! He deftly belnds what little fact is known of the Roswell crach and blends it with his own extrapolations. What makes the book so remarkable are those extrapolations. They seem completely plausible and realistic and are meticulously thought out. Every detail seems to make sense and drawns you further into the world he has created. Wether any of his extrapolations are correct is what keeps you thinking about the book. Trying to figure out if there was something he forgot or something that just doesn't add up. If you want an engaging read, one that presents a puzzle to be solved andtold in the most entertaining and engaging ways, then this book is for you!

Whitley Strieber's 1989 novel "Majestic" was published a couple of years after his worldwide best-seller "Communion" detailing his personal history of abduction experiences, and its more obscure follow-up "Transformation." Strieber is a pretty decent professional writer and knows how to tell a story, so this fictional account centred on the 1947 Roswell crash-recovery - which re-emerged in the late 1980s as a result of the investigative work of Stanton Friedman and others - is an easy read with a racy, populist style.

Strieber skilfully works into the narrative some of his own convictions about the ETs' motives, weaves in a sub-plot involving a sequence of abductions suffered by one of the characters and explores the breeding/hybridization program which by 1989 was becoming evident to many diligent researchers (before Professors David Jacobs & John Mack, or MUFON investigator Raymond Fowler started to publish their work on this aspect of the phenomenon).

One of the most interesting things connected to this book involves Jesse Marcel Junior's visit to the Capitol Building related in chapter 6 of his excellent book, "The Roswell Legacy". Jesse (at the time a serving military surgeon) was invited to Washington DC, and in a private meeting deep in the bowels of the Capitol Building was briefed by a government official about "a government within the government" and about the huge sums appropriated by the "black budgets." The meeting began with the government official holding up a copy of Strieber's novel "Majestic" and saying: "This is not fiction." I discussed this incident with Jesse face-to-face, and his unassailable integrity convinces me this account is factual.

Strieber's novel is almost forgotten now, but is in fact a good page-turning read. At 350 pages it contains all the important facts known about the Roswell crash and recovery, told in an entertaining style whilst masquerading as fiction. It's an interesting work of minor import to add to any library of UFO literature. I'd give it about three-and-a-half stars if that were possible (i.e. 7/10). Good hardcover copies are difficult to find but the various paperback editions are common.

Majestic is a good book for someone with an open mind. You don't have to believe in UFO's to have good scare with most parts of the book, and yet, you really, really have to stretch your noodle at other parts. As far as blending fact and fiction I think that Striber does a good job, even though it is perspective on what is fact. Bear in mind what went on at Roswell in '47 has two sides; the government and the people who really believe that a UFO crash was covered up. I personally enjoyed the book. I found some parts to be very spine tingling. The only thing that wasn't that great was the blending of alien and humans. Of course, we are talking sci-fi and I noramlly do not read these kind of books so this maybe great for some readers. I let a friend of mine read the book and he shares the same opinion as myself. Over all I believe Majestic is well written and should be read as fiction, not as fact, with a bit of "what if" in the back of your mind, this makes it reading at night a lot more entertaining. I really liked this book and will read it agian at a later date.

Great piece of semi-historical fiction, or alternative historical fiction, loosely-veiled non-fiction, or science fiction (depending on your perspective on the issue).

Majestic is yet another take on the events of the infamous alleged Roswell flying saucer crash and subsequent cover up in 1947. Centered around interviews with a career CIA man who was involved with government UFO research and deep cover intelligence from WWII until retirement, Streiber puts a few new spins on a story that's been dissected and written about 1000 times, as he inserts his usual perspective on the matter (if you're familiar with his other books).

I read this book when first released and have never been able to find another copy in print in any Borders or Barnes and Noble anywhere in the continental US since the mid-1990's. Of all of his preachy alien abduction novels, it's surprising to me that this one is darn near impossible to find. If you're reading this for research into the Rosell incident, you won't find anything earth-shattering. If you're looking for a solid page turner to keep you busy on a cross-country flight, this is it. A good read, regardless of which category you place the book; it reads like a good Twilight Zone episode.

Apparently, this novel by acclaimed sci-fi writer, Mr. Whiteley Striber has been based on certain above-top-secret facts concerned crashed saucers and retrievel of both alive and dead aliens. The information is so sensitive after more than 60 years of its occurence in the arid desert of New Mexico that the writer portrays better in novelization form so that it could be understood by readers at large. This story is about the gripping diary of U.S. Secretary of State Forrestal, who purported committed suicide by throwing himself with a tied bedsheet out of the hospital in which he was confined. He met the live alien who telepathically told him about his life. And Forrestal fell sick and was forced to be confined to a mental hospital. Forrestal wanted to tell the public but was prevented from doing so, and after his untimely death, his diary went missing! The story concerns the well-known alien crash at Roswell in 1947. The story by Whitely Strieber makes for stunning reading about Forrestal and the alien including those recovered cadavers. So go for it if you wish to find out the truth behind Roswell. Cheers.

It was Good. Words cannot adequately express how good it was-- therefore i won't bore you to death. Just read it, and while you read it, remember that we are the product of advanced genetic engineering and were created by God (Aliens).

for Majestic. I can't believe it's not in stock. It's one of the greatest novels ever written. It takes you places I've never experienced in literature. This man is a magician - he can transport the reader to the furthest realms of the imagination. I can't help wondering why this brilliant book has not received more notoriety. Everyone with any interest in the extraterrestial should read it.

Putting aside any belief/non-belief in UFO theories, this is still a great book. It reads very easily. The author is not over flowery with prose, hard to follow, or one to go off long tangents--not easy to do in a story that also requires the author to fill in the reader on certain historical documents/facts/occurences.

If you are interested in aliens/ufo conspiracy theories, this is exactly what you are looking for. A compelling, fictional story that ties all sorts of loose threads together to make a whole story.

One of the best things I like is the characterization of the alien race in Streiber's novels. It isn't as simple as little green men who want to kidnap us and eat our brains, as most hollywood interpretations lend themselves to (Independence Day, Alien series, etc.). It is a different interpretation which leads the story to unexpected places.

The book doesn't sell you on believing this interpretation or not--just enjoy the story on its own terms; you won't regret it.