One of Strieber's best-written books.

Based on the famous MJ-12 document, Majestic is the story of the events that led to the clandestine agency's inception and its inner workings as reported to us by fictional reporter Nicholas Duke who is getting this remarkable story from Majestic director Wilfred Stone.My position on the whole UFO phenomenon is that I'm somewhat skeptical, but the events, the conspiracies, and the speculations as to why the aliens are here are just fun to read about. Now because this novel is presented as a work...

Strieber is a fantastic writer. The psychological aspect of the main characters is convincing.This book was a lot more interesting than I had anticipated.I just came across another of his books, Nature's End , which I'm looking forward to devouring.

I've never read a book like this one. It was about what happened in Roswell, NM. in 1947. Nothing really different about you say, but this take on it sure was. Even after reading it, I'm not sure if it was actually meant to be a fictional story (that was the genre), or if it was supposed to be factual. The author presented gov't documents and autopsy reports and testimony from real people from leadership positions back then, so it makes me wonder. The author gives a sense that the 'others' aren'...

I've always been a lover of the paranormal, supernatural, extraterrestrial. I came upon this book while reading William Cooper's "Behold A Pale Horse", in which he describes the accuracy of Strieber's information regarding government cover-ups, so I immediately picked up a copy. Looking at previous reviews, many readers claim to have experienced nightmares and or strange occurrences. I have to admit that the first evening I started this book, I had a strange and unforgettable dream that is still...

Interesting at parts, a bit draggy at others. The biggest problem is the structure. It's presented as a true story told through fiction, and at various times the word "I" is referring to: (1) the actual author, (2) the fictional author character, (3) Will Stone, a fictional government agent. This choppiness is further interspersed with documents and newspaper clippings (some fictional and some real).I have no problem with unconventional approaches like this in theory — I loved House of Leaves, w...

I kinda expected this to be a lot like the Steven Spielberg miniseries 'Taken' but it is so its own thing. Took me a while to get into it, but once it got going I was hooked.Strieber has a talent for cooking up truly horrifying, unforgettable scenarios. They stay with you long after you read them.I'd also like to add one more thing. One of the coolest things about Whitley Strieber is that he leaves the idea of the "visitors" open to interpretation. Are they aliens? Are they us, evolved? Are they...

This book is an account of Roswell incident written from the point of a reporter interviewing a Mr. X like character from the government who wants the "true story" to be told before he dies of lung cancer. The author seems to have started with alleged facts (which could also be called a ficiton by some) and then filled in the gaps with information that he had come to believe true during his experiences described in Communion and Transformation. I enjoyed some aspects of the book, and I have come...

This book gave me nightmares. Maybe because I'm a believer that we're not the only beings in the universe!

I found this book fascinating. I hope someday we will learn the real truth of what happened in Roswell.

Read in 1989. Strieber's account of the Roswell events in 1947. My last book of 1989. I read 41 books that year.

This is a fictionalized account of the authors speculations of what occurred at Roswell and the actions and motivations behind that. There is a blend of the historical and fictional - sort of a "names have been changed to protect the innocent" kind of thing. Strieber proposes some interesting theories about the "others" - he never calls them aliens because frankly we can't say for sure that's what they are. There are plenty of other possibilities and he does not discount them. This was written a...

Fictional rendition of this authors interpretation of the "facts" behind Roswell and the creation of Majestic-12. Strieber's writing tends to be metaphysical and he is not always easy to follow. To Strieber, aliens are more a "spiritual" phenomena then simply extraterrestrial. If you accept Strieber's conceptual version, it seems more demonic rather than enlightening as he suggests...pure evil to me.

My initial reaction after reading this book is confusion. The author purportedly claims that the book is written as a fiction but based on REAL events of UFO and 3? alien bodies found in Roswell UFO crash. The style of writing is interesting though can give you a slight headache. Personally i don't know what to make of it. I've read several books on that incident a lot of things described in different books by different authors COINCIDE which makes me WONDER.Anyway, you are free to make your own...

This is a fictionalization of much of what many students of the UFO phenomena take quite seriously as fact: the crash near Roswell, the recovery, the cover-up.Having read a number of Strieber's novels, but not yet his Communion series of autobiographical contact books, I would not rate this as highly as WarDay.

In 1985 something happened to writer Whitley Strieber during a stay at a cabin in upstate New York. While his immediate memoirs of the experience, Communion (1987) and Transformation (1988), were often treated as examples of the then-growing body of alien abduction literature, Strieber has been reluctant to label his experiences exactly in those terms. In writing Majestic, he looks at the famous Roswell, New Mexico, event in which the US military allegedly found a crashed flying saucer and alien...

Fun read - a thinly fictionalized account of the 1947 Roswell incident, or at least Strieber's interpretation of it. I've been on something of a Whitley Strieber kick lately, having read Communion and Transformation, and was curious about his fiction. Reminded me of an early James Ellroy novel and that's a high compliment.

Well I finally got to read the book 'MAJESTIC' by Whitley Srtriber.It is a mostly fiction/factual account of the Rosewell Crash in 1947. To me, this book was one of the scariest books I have ever read. It scared me into horrible nightmares a couple of times. Be that as it may, it was really well written and easy to follow. It was very descriptive of the Rancher and his family, and the night out there in New Mexico desert where this event occured. Also of all the other Military and non-military p...

Majestic is Whitley Strieber’s historical thriller about the events in Roswell in 1947 and the creation of the alleged secret intelligence organization called Majestic. The novel follows discredited journalist Nicholas A Duke as he dutifully, if not somewhat skeptically at first, informs the public of what really happened when Mac Brazel stumbled across the strange debris while working the ranch for which he was foreman. As Duke records the confessions or chronicle of Wilfred Stone, former direc...

“Am Interesting Read”The author takes UFO reports, as well as interviewing eyewitness accounts, and changes names of the real people involved and writing his own fiction around the UFO phenomenon. Most of the book covers the Roswell incident in 1947. A lot of the plot involves the author’s own belief in the case of the alien’s agenda, and what he thinks it is about. It is certainly an interesting concept, but I doubt very seriously anyone knows the truth yet of what happened at Roswell, or what