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32 of 33 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Style does NOT equal substance, July 25, 2005
I have a huge collection of ufo related books , from mid fifties James McDonald stuff through Jaques Vallee and J. Allen Hynek,and on to Stanton Freidman and the beginning of the whole "Majestic 12" rumor,on through to the early abduction accounts of Betty and Barney Hill, "Incident At Exeter" by Fowler ,on through to all the Streiber and Budd Hopkins stuff,continuing to the really "way-out" things like Ingo Swanns "Penetration". I have all the books on the subject by Harvard psychiatrist John Mack, Steven Greer's "Disclosure Project" books, Richard Dolan's "Ufo's And The National Security State" , and on through to tangentially ufo related books like Nick Cooks "The Hunt For Zero Point Energy" , Joe McMoneagles "Mind Trek" , and "The Excalibur Briefing" by Thomas Bearden. I also have all the Richard T. Hall books , the Jim Marrs books etc. etc. etc.........HERE'S MY POINT ; if you have read any of the just cited items , GET ABOVE BLACK. Many, many little details in Above Black dovetail very nicely with and corroborate things I have previously read. It's a great book to ADD to your collection.
If , however , you've only read 1 or 2 pop-culture ufo type books
and put the whole subject on an "lastest tidbits about Paris Hilton or Tommy Lee" timewaster level , this book will mean nothing to you.
As another reviewer said , Above Black DOES help connect some dots....but ONLY if you already have a deep knowledge of the subject.
Newbies and thrill-seekers and fundmentalists whether scientific , or religious....stay away ! This book will only cause you to thrash around in confusion even more....and you don't need another ulcer ;-)
Bob Welch
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36 of 39 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Presents facts, and does not speculate or make anything up., December 31, 2002
Above Black is about a guy who worked for the NSA as an "IC" (Intuitive Communicator). The book follows his journey from the military through his IC training, and to his time as a telepathic communicator (with aliens). And lastly, his discovery and reason for wanting to get out.I saw there are a couple of negative reviews of this book, which I strictly think is very unjust. This book is a real story. To those people who would give this book a bad review, and to those who do not yet "believe" in aliens, consider this... Statistically, the more educated a person is, the more likely they are to "believe". This book is a factual and non-sensationalistic account of a man's career in a job most of us would never guess even existed, and an account of something Dan Sherman (author) has had the opportunity to do that most of us never will. I conclude: For those of you who do already "believe", then this book is for you (albiet it's quite short, only 150 pages). But for those of you who are still highly sceptical and have not ALREADY read other books on the topic, this book is NOT for you, it's way above your head.
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31 of 34 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Above Black is gut-level convincing., September 3, 1999
By A Customer
If you're expecting a mind-altering, Strieber-esque tour of the alien psyche, this book won't do it for you. It will, however, kidnap you, test your faith in the myth of an unchallenged national security system, lock you in a guarded underground bunker with nothing but a blank computer screen in front of you, and leave you -- not as alone as you wish -- all in the space of a long evening's read.A former USAF tech/soldier, Sherman writes in a hybrid military report style, laced with imaginative acronyms which could only come from the stolid minds of agents at the highest NSA security levels. But it's his "only the facts" style that evokes a gut-level belief in what he's talking about, the mundane description of security measures, the first-person accounts of information given by his supervisors, the midnight "comms" with unseen aliens. He speculates little as to the alien's agenda, he draws no concrete conclusions, and he unmercifully leaves us with our imagination running akimbo on many of the issues. Sherman's Above Black is uncompromising, revealing, and disturbing -- Extreme Reading.
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