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Audiobook - A mysterious alien presence bursts out of sacred sites all over the world and begins to rip human souls from their bodies, plunging the world into chaos .
When I first started reading this book, I assumed, because I had come across it at the same time that the movie was released, that the two were related because the names were the same. But, I was so wrong! The movie was basically another "disaster/end of the world" type of movie, whereas the book is an sci-fi book dealing with the concept of parallel universes and the idea that one of these universes is run by evil creatures that are able to assume human form. These creatures have only very rare...
I'm going to be generous and give it 3-stars for the first half if the book and the idea behind the story. The book starts out really good, and has an interesting concept with the multiple universes (not really a spoiler). If you are comfortable with reading stories that jump around from one story/location to another then this won't be a difficult read. With that said, the second half of the book drops the ball and seems almost like an entirely different story altogether. It seems as if Whitley
Okay, so admittedly I do not read a lot of sci-fi. So I don't know if this book is representative of the field or an outlier, but I hated this book. The three worlds paradigm was confusing to follow and all of the characters seemed too much like automatons. Literally only finished this because my brain doesn't allow me to leave books unread once I've started. But I was racing to be done with it. And it doesn't turn me on to the genre at all.
Chaos, chaos, chaos. Nothing more than chaos. Best lesson how not to write books. I seriously wonder if Mr. Strieber has severe ADHD to make such a mess. Beginning was quite intriguing one but soon afterwards he lost discipline completely and everything ended deus ex machina style.
Kind of a huge mashup of scifi, dystopia, stories within stories, cautionary tale, horror, exploration of the nature of humanity! I found it at times intriguing and thought provoking and at other times, almost unbearably goulish.
Very unusual. Multiple Earths, one nearly the same as ours and one with soul stealing reptilian people. A war to protect our world and amazing changes to our sister world. A page turner.
The Mayan calender ends ... the war for souls begins ... load of bollocks.
This was more of a political attack than an entertaining story. Continued reading it for the sole purpose of analyzing the author. Have to admit. It did make me laugh out loud.
What to say about this book? Writer Whitley Strieber really wants to get across the impending doom of the 2012 date (end of human consciousness -- according to the ancient Mayan calendar). The books catches our attention right away. One of the lead characters, Martin Winters, is in the Pyramid of Khufu in Egypt. He is an archaeologist on a mission. Then the world goes crazy and this pyramid blows up. I was following along and gobbling it down up until this point. Here everything starts to go sou...
This entire book is confusing. But, there were some real things in this book. In one part, a guy asks a cop to torture a guy from the other universe. The cop refuses to because the guy is an air force leader. Wylie and the cop began arguing. He ended up not doing it. So, this shows me that all of the military people stick together. The air force guy wasn’t even from the same universe and he stood up for him. The guy tried to kill the cop’s best friend, too. But you know what, I probably would h
what a HORRIBLE book. so, i have about 1900 ebooks to read on my kindle. i figure the best way to parse so many books in so little time (if i live for another 50 years i'll have to read 38 books a year or about 3 books a month) is to take them in alphabetical order and apparently the alphabet starts with numbers.and i thought "hey, it's 2012 and this book is about 2012, good choice." i hoped that it would be some sort of historical fiction/speculative future that mixed real life data about the m...
Review – While I enjoyed the story concept I did not enjoy the story as it was written.• There were many unexplained loose ends, some of which are noted in the summary below.• The story was very male centric with nearly all of the principal characters being men or boys. Women and girls have secondary and/or are portrayed as the “victims” that the men must rescue or as evil creatures.• The story will get dated quickly as there are many references to current day products, people, and organizations...
Awful and disconnected The story itself has potential. The writing craft is undeveloped though. There’s too many disconnections, not in the story as a whole, but from one simple moment to the next.
From Publishers WeeklyStrieber's epic sequel to 2006's The Grays blends equal parts science fiction thriller, supernatural horror and provocative spiritual speculation. As struggling author Wylie Dale works on his latest novel, which revolves around an upcoming date when the earth crosses both the galactic equator and the solar ecliptic—a time that the Maya predicted would mark the cataclysmic end of this age—he begins to uncover evidence that what he's writing about is actually happening on a p...
First off, this book sucked big time.The description from the back made it sound good but the constant jumping between parallel worlds made it confusing and, for myself, hard to keep track of the various characters in each world. The other thing that confused the hell out of me was that in an early chapter it lists 1 date then the next chapter lists an earlier date and the story continues from there. It actually started off pretty good once I was able to keep track of things in the other worlds
To be realistic, this is not a very good book. It's a narrative mess, there are a number of plot holes and some of the "twists" are silly and seem to come from nowhere. Why did I give it three stars, then? It was a FUN mess! Despite all the problems, I had a good time with this book. I enjoyed a number of the ideas here, and had fun exploring the alien "planet" (I will say no more so as not to spoil anything) with the characters.On the whole, 2012 caught my interest in a B-movie kind of way and
This book was not really what I had expected. I don't know if I was looking for more of the concepts put forth in the film "2012" (which IS NOT an adaptation of this book, by the way) or some intense fictional study of the Mayan long count.What is was was a pretty solid piece of work with strong concept of metafiction and fiction vs. reality concepts. It deals more with extraterrestrials, which I should have expected from Strieber and gets more into a sci-fi/horror fiction examination of the loo...
I don’t hate this book, but I don’t like it either. And I can’t really say why. It has a lot of good themes, intrigue, common science fiction tropes, a twisting story that constantly changes. But I still didn’t enjoy it. Maybe it’s just the believability factor.
Mr. Strieber started out as a very competent writer of horror and fantasy novels. Then Communion was released in which he claimed to have been abducted by aliens. It was a fairly interesting story whether you believed it or not. But his fiction suffered since you could no longer separate his fiction from what he claimed as fact. When I read 2012 I was hoping for the return of Strieber the novelist. But it is impossible to tell the fiction from what Strieber is professing to believe. I doubt he r...