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KEN
from BIRMINGHAM (United Kingdom) on 2007-02-07 09:08 [#02046449]
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anyone read this? its fucking terrifying...
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Drunken Mastah
from OPPERKLASSESVIN!!! (Norway) on 2007-02-07 09:15 [#02046451]
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good? bad? Give me chewing gum!!!
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dog_belch
from Netherlands, The on 2007-02-07 09:19 [#02046452]
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Fucking awful film, mind.
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KEN
from BIRMINGHAM (United Kingdom) on 2007-02-07 09:25 [#02046453]
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really good book. film terrible. i dont really believe in UFO's but his annecdotes of what happened to him are fucking weird...
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uviol
from United States on 2007-02-07 17:04 [#02046765]
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My dad went to the same high school as Whitley Strieber..
Anyway, I've heard the book's great.. meant to read it for years.
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rikrak
from up the road (United Kingdom) on 2007-02-08 03:58 [#02046953]
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years after writing Communion, he admitted that he made it all up... which turns it from a terrifying account of abduction into a pretty crap bit of sci-fi that needed some underhanded marketing to sell
that said, he's still peddling his books as fact - and a quick search on google couldn't turn up his admission of making it all up - so maybe i'm the one making it all up.... i can't explain the fact that i woke up with my wellies on this morning...
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KEN
from BIRMINGHAM (United Kingdom) on 2007-02-08 08:58 [#02047065]
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no way, really? i didnt know that.
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rikrak
from up the road (United Kingdom) on 2007-02-08 13:30 [#02047308]
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yeah sorry mate - the book terrified me too. i read it when it came out and got the follow up, Transformation. i was well into UFOs in those days.
it does seem like he's still doing the circuits talking about his 'experiences' but it's all a bit airy fairy (literally) - and i swear i read an article where he admitted to making it up - but couldn't find it online.
apparently he had another alien book out last year called The Greys... but it's billed as fiction this time - make of that what you will.
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plaidzebra
from so long, xlt on 2007-02-08 14:41 [#02047388]
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that's not true. he's unquestionably been the target of numerous smear campaigns, and your assertion is absolutely false.
he has acknowledged that he does not know for certain the origin of his experiences or the "visitors," as he calls them, but never has he stated that the book was a fiction.
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plaidzebra
from so long, xlt on 2007-02-08 14:49 [#02047393]
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he did indeed base some novels on not only his experiences but others' as well. "the greys" (which i have not read) was a novel that attempts to deal with his personal experiences in a fictional context. in my opinion he has never misrepresented this fact.
whatever his faults, in my experience he's pretty forthcoming about the gaps in his knowledge and understanding.
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rikrak
from up the road (United Kingdom) on 2007-02-09 07:56 [#02047831]
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okay i stand corrected - it was years ago when i read it and there was no internet to do any further research, so i just took it as read.
as i've got older i've found it harder to continue to believe in the idea of UFOs and alien doodads. even the disclosure project only raised a 'meh'
anyone have any convincing videos?
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rikrak
from up the road (United Kingdom) on 2007-02-09 08:00 [#02047833]
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full version of disclosure project video if anyone's interested:
LAZY_TITLE
pretty convincing - unless you come at it from the point of view that these people are lying or have been misled - much like whitney strieber's stuff
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