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Product Description
Confirmation
The Hard Evidence of Aliens Among Us
By Whitley Strieber
Price: $23.50
Our Item Code: WSConfirmation
Postage Code: book2
256 Pages, Hardcover
Size: 6.5 x 9.5 inches
St. Martins Press, 1998
ISBN: 0-312-18557-x
Added to Catalog: 5/13/98
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Our Review |
Opinion of the webmaster, subject to debate |
Credibility
1
Very Low |
Research Value
3
Moderate |
Cultural Interest
5
Very High |
Visual Information
2
Low |
Style
NR
Not Rated |
Silliness
4
High |
Wow Factor
1
Boring |
Bargain
1
Very Low |
Explanation of Ratings
Credibility: This catagory is a rating of the author's intellectual discipline
and the strength of his argument (which are very low), not the veracity of his claims (which could be true in spite of the weak argument).
Cultural Interest: Provides an excellent record of current fads in ufology, as no one holds more closely too them than Streiber.
Bargain: Items with a low bargain rating are not considered worth the retail price
as judged by the useful research data they contain. However, they may have cultural or
entertainment value, which is not included in the bargain rating.
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This book provides "confirmation" only for people who are true
believers anyway, and any "hard evidence" is hard to find in
these pages. Instead, this book offers only "soft evidence,"
which is Strieber offering his analysis of current UFO cases.
This book is the equivalent of going to an auditorium
for a two-hour Streiber monologue on UFOs.
This is fine if you like to hear Strieber talk
(as millions do),
but we are not blessed with that facility.
Within five minutes, we are squirming in our chair,
and after fifteen our bum is beginning to hurt.
We want to walk out, but Streiber promised hard evidence
and we're still waiting for it.
There are some photographs:
a couple dozen black-and-white
shots of fuzzy UFOs and supposed abductee scars.
One picture shows a sliver of glass-like material removed
from an implant victim. Well, it certainly looks hard.
Our favorite picture, though, is the CAT scan of Whitley Streiber's
brain. There it is, don't you see it? -- hard evidence!
Unfortunately, we can't make out much in that
tiny picture, but we know it must be there.
There must be something making him talk and talk
without actually saying anything.
Or maybe that's just what novelists do:
obfuscate and delay. Try as he might,
Streiber can never be a
UFO journalist of the calibre of Jerome Clark or Timothy
Good. He and his books are too self-centered,
and strike us as phony in spirit if not fact.
We want to stand up and shout, "Give us something new!"
but we opt instead to slip out the back and leave him
droning on.
-- Glenn
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