Honestly, I don't do the whole aliens thing at all, but the cover of this book used to freak me out as a kid (and a bit residually as an adult) so I decided to see what was inside.Alright, about fifty pages into this book I started to realize what direction this book was heading in. The author clearly believed that what he experienced was real and from there made a concerted effort to present facts and statements to support his belief rather than to draw objective conclusions, which is precisely...

Sometimes you read a book that changes your life. Was it a change for the better or worse I almost hear you cry?I don't knowI read this book many years ago at the tender age of 21. The thing that initially drew me to it was the cover art...the typical alien head...I devour the book in a couple of days and during the read I got what can only be described as a FlashbackSuddenly I remembered being with a pal at age 11ish standing on an Orkney hilltop in the night watching huge glowing red orbs pass...

On vacation in Martha's Vineyard, this book had me screaming in my sleep, nightly. My sleeping companion disliked being awoken in this manner in the dead of night. I had to stop reading it until the vacation was over. Shall we say it touched a nerve...

Parts of this book are some of the most terrifying stuff I've ever read. Parts of this book are some of the most boring stuff I've ever read. The first 90 or so pages are so unsettling that when you get past that bit it feels a bit underwhelming and you have to wade through the next 100 pages before it gets really interesting again. That said, I believe and I do think that after you've finished this book, thinking about it is even more terrifying than reading it.

When my nephew was about ten years old, he insists he was visited by aliens. He says he woke up in the middle of the night with a bright orb coming through his bedroom window. Then nothing. The next thing he remembers is being in his parents bedroom trying to wake them up to warn them - but nothing would wake them. Next morning, the foot of his bed and bedroom floor were drenched. His mother asked him for an explanation and he told her the events of the previous night. Naturally she didn't belie...

I am almost tired of people reading this book expecting it to be 100% biographical in nature. Streiber himself has been clear that he is not totaly sure what it is really about. I always read it taking the visitors out of the equation and looking at Streibers subsequent examination of himself, and his life. I also believe it is wrong for anyone to claim it to be total B.S., as we have to face the one fact; we can not prove it to be true or false. This is the underlining problem for the hardcore

I have never read an Abduction/ UFO study book before. I picked this book up at a record shop on tour on the east coast this year. It's been out for a long time and I remember what a splash it made upon its initial release. I also used to listen to Strieber's radio show in Santa Cruz on AM while delivering pizza's around town on Saturday nights. Communion was so much more than i expected. For one, Strieber is coming to this book as a writing talent so the book reads very eloquently, like that of...

As a young teenager, I always remember this as the first book I ever managed to finish. For that alone it deserves 5 stars. A bold title nevertheless and I question how true is 'true'?

Very few books scare me. This was one of them. I'm "agnostic" when it comes to believing in aliens, but I love entertaining the idea. This book had me questioning everything from childhood memories to a "sighting" I experienced when I was younger. I'm still on the fence, but as Mulder so passionately declared, "I want to believe."

My cousin who is an oddity had this book at a family reunion about 7 years ago. Myself and my brothers asked him about it because we are avid readers and were interested. His copy was a hardcover and he had removed the dust jacket probably at the request of his mother so all we actually saw was a white book with the word "Communion" on the side. He looked us dead in the eyes individually and said "it's not the communion you're thinking" and walked away with his book to hide under a tree. Well Mr...

I read this way-back-when, when it first came out. I loved it! It was scary and also fascinating. I'm still interested in the idea of alien contact, so sue me. I know it's fringe and there are many naysayers. But there is no shame in my game. "I'm not saying it was aliens... but it was aliens." 🤣👽

This book was stupider than a circular firing squad.

I read this many years ago along with Fire in the Sky. I wanted to dive back in and see if it still held the same hold on me as it did all those years ago.Tough one to rate as it seems to meander back and forth between a non-fiction account with heavy fictionalized sections.Ultimately, I think this one will work for each reader differently based on their personal beliefs on if we're alone in the Universe or not.

Regardless of your personal beliefs about aliens, this book is well written, well paced and quite riveting. Spooky.

This book scared the pants off me when I was ten.

This book totally freaked me out, and I couldn't finish it. When I read it I was living in Austin which is where Whitley Streiber was living when he claims these events happened. I woke up in the middle of the night for weeks seeing aliens in my bedroom.

I read this book for two reasons. I believed I had previously read it as a teenager, and Texas Monthly published an article at some point stating that The Secret School is one of the ten best reads by a Texas author written in the last 100 years. Unfortunately The Secret School is book 4 or 5 in this series so I thought I'd read it from the start.I quickly figured out I'd never have read this book as a teenager because it's monotonously boring. It's akin to reading the transcript of The Iran-Con...

Did aliens abduct Whitley Streiber in 1984? Are the "visitors" as he calls them from another planet, another dimension, from somewhere deep in the human psyche? And why are they here? These are the questions Streiber raises in his book, probably the all-time definitive book about alien abduction. Interesting though the questions may be, unfortunately he doesn't provide many answers.The questions you will be asking yourself while reading it are more along the lines of : Is this guy totally crazy

Mike Miley told me of this book when it came out in 1987. I was suspicious, having known its author as the source of The Hunger and Wolfen, two decent horror movies based on novels by him. This skepticism was reinforced shortly thereafter by the reading of a review of the book by science fiction writer Samuel Delany in The Nation. Delany, at some length and with considerable heat, accused Strieber of fraud. In consequence, I began to look for and read Strieber's novels, planning to obtain Commun...

Having personally witnessed 3 UFO sightings from the mid 60's, to the last one in August of 1970, his story both reminds me (and frightens me) of how close I was to my 3rd UFO sighting! Mom and I both saw the first 2 UFO's while dad was driving. I spotted them and then asked mom if she saw it too, and she did.(The first one was near the cliffs (actually hiding above them at times) outside of Warm Springs, Oregon on a clear blue sky day. It was silver and reflecting the sun. We could see it very