Customer Reviews

Montauk Babies [or The Many Lives of Al Leedskalnin]

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What a book! Totally mind blowing and has a variety of emotional highs and lows discussed in its pages. A definite one for a long train journey or flight, simply because it shouldn't be (and probably won't) be put down from cover to cover.

A delight, and totally absorbing.

From the second you open the cover to explore the mystery unfolding therein to the second you close it with a smile of inner knowing, you will timetravel into the converging 5th-dimensional space of the shaman in ways imaginable but, mostly, unimaginable at present. For this articulate author and meticulous graphics artist have captured the theme and the meme, the mind-bending warp and woof essence of the 2012 End Time scenario that is not only bringing to a close the darkest days of our war torn world history in an "untimely" manner, but opening the floodgates of infinity in all areas of manifestation from astrophysics to zoology. So do your body-mind-spirit a huge favor, buy this book and soar to heights unplumbed by the discursive intellect of today. In the new age terms of tomorrow, its high-time to hot rod your head by self-empowering your heart of hearts! Not only think outside the box but redefine its boundary to include the real and the surreal. Dare to reinvent your reality in accordance with your most lucid dreams for the future by employing this visual word-salad template for transformation; in fact, I double-dare you to do so!

Also Recommended: Tranceformers: Shamans of the 21st Century

This is not a funny book, it's not a clever book. In fact it's a uniquely hilarious and intellectual book that keeps you laughing and crying and in deep thought and refreshed and well, it just does everything. You have to read this book before you die. I can now die happy, even though it made me late for work because I stayed up the whole night reading it.

Montauk Babies is a short sci-fi conspiracy culture based book that has a comic book feel to it. It also reminds me a bit of R.A.W.'s Illuminatus Trilogy. It takes elements from the Montauk Project saga (Al Bielek and Preston Nichols seem to be inspirations for a couple characters) and combines other UFO and conspiracy lore along with techno-shamanic themes from sources like Terrence McKenna. There are some interesting references in this book and clever dialogue, but I found this book way too short for my liking. A lot more content could have been developed for this book, especially considering the page size and book cost. This book is a fun read, but for those already initiated into the Montauk lore and conspiracy research field this book may seem to pale next to the non-fiction books on related topics.

This is a very cool book, chock full of wild and creative illustrations. A quick, but fun read.

Reading this book, I felt like I could see the movie in my mind. The vivid descriptions and word play are incredible. The book is filled with awesome illustrations to accompany the equality descriptive words. This futuristic adventure is mildly paranoid while still touching on enough reality to make you think. It is almost like a cousin to a comic book. It was incredibly well written and engaging. I highly recommend this book.

Similar to Jack Kerouac's seminal beat novel On the Road, Montauk Babies is the story of Al Leedskalnin and quantum physicist Peabody Freeman, who are traveling across country in 2011 in a '73 Buick Riviera, on a mission to keep time-space from imploding in on itself.

The title comes from the 1930s secret government experiments in invisibility, time travel, and mind control, when Nikola Tesla and several other physicists undertook experiments in multiple realities, eventually creating a "time tunnel" between 1943 and Montauk Island of 1983. According to the story, Leedskalnin was a subject of the Montauk experiments and is thus acutely aware of how these interdimensional gaps threaten to destroy humanity. And only a "Montauk baby" is spiritually equipped to save the earth.

Montauk Babies could loosely be called a graphic novel because of its lavish illustrations, though the narrative is in text form, albeit printed, at times, on the horizontal and even upside down, in a font that is nigh impossible to read clearly. While this may echo the plot conceit of a world falling apart and of events dislocated in time, it is also downright impossible to read.

Even with this in mind, Montauk Babies is an entertaining and provocative read, of interest to science fiction buffs, conspiracists, and comic-book lovers.

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This is a really well done graphic novel. The story is exciting and keeps you glued from beginning to end and the beautiful color illustrations are unlike anything I have seen in other graphic novels.

Great read and cool art. This book is really unique. Lots and lots of depth to these characters. I can really see this being made into a movie. I'll be the first in line. Best graphic novel to date that I've come across.

This book combines story telling ala Jack Kerouac, Ray Bradbury, and Frank Miller (the epic Batman artist) heard this is going to be made into a movie, can't wait to see it. Awesome, color book!