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was entertaining, but at times confusing, felt like the story did not know where to go, and a little too far fetched here and there.
sitelinkWhitley Strieber's sitelinkThe Grays is an interesting read from front to back, and never disappoints, In fact, it's hard to know what to expect at any time throughout the novel, as the author provides enough twists and turns to keep readers constantly guessing.
On the surface, The Grays at first appears to be a fairly typical alienabduction story, but quickly expands to a cataclysmic scale, and the author's imagination provides for some unique ideas, and an interesting climax.
On the whole, The Grays is extremely successful in weaving a complex plot around a fantastic and believable set of characters.
From the ubergenius child, to the militant fanatic, to the ailing relationship of the parents, to the unique capabilities of the Grays, the book succeeds on all levels.
The story builds nicely to the climax and resolves pretty much all of the plot elements, It's a book that defies expectations, but does not leave the reader disappointed, Talk about adventurous. Definately one of those great alien abduction tales, Keeps you on the edge of your seat, By the end of this one I was completely disinterested, It's perfectly possible that I missed some hidden message or "bigger" point to the story, but it was a little too "Ancient Aliens" fanfiction for my liking.
There were "twists" that did not seem to actually impact the story, The biggest example was This was a general prblem I had with the characters, I never found a reason to care for them and their actions were so odd that they were distracting,
I stuck with it to the end but by the time I reached the second half of the audiobook, I knew it wasn't for me.
The narrator for the audio book added nothing to it and the dialogue was flat, I'm sure there's an audience for this book, but I'm certainly not it, Спряна на. Скука. If I were to rate books solely on the basis of enjoyment, The Grays would get four, Personally, I found it a pageturner, finishing the thing in two nights as a bedtime book, But then I've reading UFO material since elementary school and so could recognize and appreciate the themes Strieber stitches together in this novel.
Otherwise, seen more objectively, this is just another sf thriller,
Years ago, after the publication of Strieber's commercially successful memoir Communion, Samuel Delany wrote a long piece in The Nation questioning the veracity of the account.
While I suspect there would naturally have been some embellishment in relating such stories of interactions with intelligent nonhuman entities as Strieber did in that and other works, I also believe there to have been at least some elements of truth to his accounts, uncomfortable truths which Strieber and other "experiencers" have been trying to work out ever since.
This novel may therefore be seen as an attempt at constructive rationalization, But, again, that won't mean much to the average reader who has no such experiences in his or her background, An eye opening novel that sheds light into the writer's obvious first hand knowledge of the subject matter he writes about,
The Grays had my mind reeling for weeks, Every bump and knock i heard even in the daylight was a Gray, or a CIA operative hiding in plain sight,
Well done, Whitely, Well done indeed. In, a visitor dubbed "The Master of the Key" paid a visit to Whitley Streiber in his hotel room, and, among other otherworldly tidbits of information, informed him that the child who was to have solved the mystery of gravity and allowed the human race to escape this planet's impending catastrophe will never be born because his parentstobe were killed in the Holocaust.
A sobering thought indeed, but Strieber has written a whatif story here on if he had actually been born, After having read so many Strieber novels recounting his own life's adventures, it was great to see him spin a yarn of fiction, pulling together everything he's learned about the Grays, alien conspiracies, ancient civilizations, and top secret military tech.
I didn't quite follow how the whole town went mad at the end, nor how thethieves were rejunevated, but it was certainly riveting and I really loved how a simple human here I'm referring to the novel's chief antagonist was able to outwit the hyperintelligent grays.
I have read quite a few science fiction books lately and so I was hoping this one would be a bit different from the others and that I would feel okay about the ending and book in general.
Well . this book didn't let me down,
I enjoyed The Grays because it had a very human side to it and you felt for the characters both alien and human.
there were times when I was actually a bit afraid to go on, . . not wanting to know what would happen next but not being able to stop listening, There were a couple of slow parts which I just daydreamed through but overall I was particularly enthralled with this book and the idea of the human race being saved by a little boy.
I couldn't help but wonder what would it be like to be his mother and how would I react to all the craziness that came my way.
I was particularly happy with the ending for most of the science fiction books I have read lately have been such a downer.
. but this book gave me hope and was filled with hope in the midst of danger, and I felt relief in finding a book that would end on a high note,
Thanks to this little novel my hope in science fiction reads has been restored again, Well, what started out promising didn't really cash in, I have seriously mixed feelings about this review, On one hand, I feel like it was probably better thanstars, but it's simply too hokey to be a solid, We'll call it a
The writing is good, I enjoy Strieber's style in this book enough that I'll probably try more of his work later, The reader is very good too, Stephen Lang, I've listened to him before and I've always been pleased with him,
As I said, Strieber does carry a story along pretty well, But despite that, some of his ideas are out there, I can deal with alien abduction theories, and I can even deal with the fact that
the man believes that he's experienced it himself.
Whatever. This is a story and I can suspend disbelief,
If the author does his job, Some of the crap was just too cheesy and unbelievable, Some of it straight out didn't make any sense, And it got to the point that I didn't care about most of the characters,
They started out interesting, but wore thin by the end, The main couple were very intriguing in the prologue but by the end of the book I wanted something to abduct them and never bring them back.
Like I said, the idea was interesting and I think Strieber has a talent for writing, This just fell short of what could have been, We are not alone. Millions of people are confronting aliens that authorities say do not exist, Whitley Strieberauthor of the legendary,bestselling book Communion, which details his own close encountersnow returns to the riddle of aliens with The Grays.
A triumvirate of Grays, known as the Three Thieves, has occupied a small Kentucky town for decadesabducting its residents and manipulating fates and bloodlines in hopes of creating an ultraintelligent human being.
Nineyearold Conner Callahan will face the ultimate terror as he struggles to understand who he has been bred to be and what he must do to save humanity.
Though the Grays have slowly begun to make themselves known, Colonel Michael Wilkes, the head of a select group of government and military officials that have been monitoring the aliens, will do anything in his power to keep them a secret.
Wilkes will set in motion a sinister plan to ensure the survival of humanity,
but at what cost
The fate of the human race lies with one woman, Lauren Glass.
Her uncanny ability to communicate with the aliens and her relationship with the last remaining captive gray may be the only way to save humankind.
The Grays is a mindbending journey behind the curtain of secrecy that surrounds the subject of aliens, written by the field's great master.
If you've never so much as thought about the subject before, this book will make you think deeply, not only about the mystery of who the Grays are, but who exactly we are.
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This was great. I've been wanting to read it for a while but wasn't sure what to expect or if it was even fiction!
This being my first Strieber book, I can say he delivered.
It's exactly what I was looking for, Invasion of the Fourth Kind: abductions, implants, ulterior alien motives, mankind at stake, Loved it
Another book that has been sitting on a shelf at home, waiting to be read, Alien abduction is not really my thing, so at first I was hesitant, The first chapter was slow, detailing the abduction of Dan and Katelyn in, Once I got past that chapter, the book picked up greatly and it was difficult for me to put down which is always a pleasant surprise!
Essentially, aliens are here and the government knows about it.
They have modified their own bodies so much they no longer feel emotions, So they tend to pick up children in an effort to breed an intelligent being that will continue not only their race but that of humans.
Kately and Dan are the parents of that child,
Lauren Glass, a member of the U, S. Air Force, has recently lost her father to mysterious circumstances, She is quickly swept up in replacing him as the “empath”, a communicator with the remaining gray what aliens are referred to as in captivity.
This portion of the novel reminded me of the movie Arrival a little,
Not everyone believes the grays are here to help civilization, A faction of the government has converged to form an elite group, If the population of Earths drops from six billion to one million, they wont have any use for us, right This group, the Trust, plans to wipe out the majority of civilization to save the world from the grays.
Quite the page turner, Could have done without the forced romance of Lauren and Langford, but I guess she needed a happy ending
While my copy of the book says that it will soon be a major motion picture, I cannot find anything that supports this.
To my knowledge, a film was never made for this book, But it certainly reads like it could be a movie, one I would definitely watch, Especially after learning that The Day After Tomorrow was based on another one of the authors books, I love that movie!
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