An honest account of the authors experiences of encounters with what appear to be non-human intelligence's. Sequel to his best selling 'Communion', Strieber focuses on recounting the weirdness of the experiences without trying to impose any given interpretation upon them. He shares the various suspicions and beliefs he held at various points, and how he moved on from them.

Pretty interesting take on aliens-as-life-coaches. Quite the contrast to what I read in Intruders, which depicted aliens as baby snatchers. Strieber says at the end that he can't disagree with Budd Hopkins more strongly, but I would like to have him interview the people that Hopkins did. Anyways, many more books on this subject from Strieber, so I'll keep reading and see how his opinion changes.

"Transformation" is where a lot of people who liked Strieber's "Communion" got off the train and pinpoint as the book where Strieber lost his marbles, and I can understand why. I found "Transformation" difficult to get through at times and unintentionally comical at times, but I didn't end up completely hating it like I would expect. It becomes even more obvious in "Transformation" that Strieber has a very weak barrier between reality and fantasy compared to most other people. The results being

A very interesting account on how the author worked to cope with the alien visits, while trying to decode the clues and instructions he was receiving and decide whether or not to cooperate.

If you read Communion, this is just more of the same without the punch of the initial encounters. The story of the author's experiences with nonhuman intelligences does proceed a bit, chronologically speaking, but there is nothing particularly new here.

Communion is the scariest book on UFOs that I've ever read, disregarding if it's true or not; however, this follow up just seems to do nothing except make things more confusing and, IMO, less credible. Please go back to horror novels as they were amazing; this is not.

This was an old book of my dads, I had never given this kind of stuff a try before, but decided to give it a go. I like the spiritual kind of insights for growth you can potentially take from this book. But I still feel not much more the wiser regarding the reality or non-reality of these alien beings or visitors in any specific details. It feels like the suggestion is their level of reality is similar to that of the kind of beings a shaman might encounter in old human religious practices with a...

When I read Whitley Strieber's Communion, I had the impression of a person genuinely trying to explain his bizarre experiences. I think Strieber has a flair for dramatic storytelling, so I took some of that book with a grain of salt. My guess is he started with some odd happenings, and dressed them up with his fiction writing skills to get a bestseller.However, Transformation: The Breakthrough seems like more than just Strieber spinning out a good yarn about some weird lights in the sky and cree...

I really struggled with this book, which is a shame as I enjoyed reading Communion as well as still having fond memories of Christopher Walken in the 1989 movie in which he seemed stranger than the Aliens. Maybe it was just too much to read this straight afterwards? It felt more self indulgent and padded, and to be honest it had worn me down so much it has taken me a while to finish it... I'm still disappointed in myself for having this book floating around and not pushing myself that bit more.....

Whitley Strieber is the Pope of Crazytown. Thus, he is regularly abducted and variously assaulted by bizarre alien entities. They also make him afraid of the dark. And turn him onto flaky pseudo-Native American mysticism. They also have great plans(!) and nefarious schemes (!) for us. They also love us in the most menacing and evil way possible. Seriously.The 'transformation' referred to in the title is Strieber's transformation into a worse writer. Gone are the already few brief moments of genu...

An excellently written account of alien abduction. Although perhaps not interesting to skeptics seeking absolute confirmation, because this is basically an extension of his experience laid down in Communion - which in turn is a subjective account, sprinkled with enlightening, open-minded speculations on what it might be. However, if you've researched the UFO phenomena, and have witnessed a UFO - up close and personal - the poignancy of Strieber's account hits hard, close, crisp and resonant. The...

ISBN 0380705354 - I believe in life on other planets. I believe in life outside our galaxy and that there is little - if any - reason to think we are the most intelligent and technologically advanced creatures ever. I also think Whitley Strieber is a really good writer (Warday comes to mind). The problem is, I also think he's a nutjob.In Transformation, Strieber basically tells the story of what happened while he was working on Communion (if there's another book about what happened while he was

I read Communion some years ago, and loved it. It is probably one of the scariest books I have ever read and one of the few books that made me scared to sleep by myself in my own bed. I kept envisioning myself being abducted through a beam of light or waking up and having aliens staring at me from my bed side. Communion was very realistic, memorable and descriptive. It's definitely fuel for nightmares. I didn't rate the book very well when I read it the first time however, and going back to it r...

A very bizarre tale about alien encounters in a NY countryside summer cabin. The author claims this to be a book about his own real life experiences while he was writing his first book Communion. His imagery is done so well that you get enveloped into the scene as if you were there yourself. There are many unsettling events that take place. In combination with his capability to paint a very vivid image in your mind, I will just say that it is like having a nightmare. I also recommend watching th...

Wow, Its fascinating the utter certainty people have in thier grasp of "reality". When something is presented from outside thier paradigm they must classify it into the known. This is the intellectual arrogance of those who claim the author has psych issues. This author has gone through extensive psychological and physiological tests the results of which are publicly available here: http://www.unknowncountry.com/edge/ar...). These tests have shown no mental disorder whatsoever with Whitley, yet

Second time reading the book. Thought-provoking sequel to Strieber's book, Communion, which I just finished reading. It is a continuation of his experience with "the visitors". Still not sure if the account given by the author is 100% factual, as in these are physical beings that visited him and not some sort of visions that he has experienced. In any case, the descriptions of the authors experiences in this book seemed a lot less visceral, and the author explains some spiritual meaning that he

More scary "true" bedtime stories about alien abduction.

A poor follow-up to the enjoyable and more believable 'Communion'. Strieber seems to be further capitalizing on his notoriety with this work that is heavy on the metaphysical and with new-age thought. A good amount of time is spent reminding the reader how accomplished a writer the author is aside from his novels related to abduction experiences and Strieber never fails to remind us that he has a large number of friends with some notoriety. Rather than spend the majority of the time placating hi...

I stumbled upon a Medium post on Whitley Strieber and found him fascinating so picked up Transformation at a used book store and quickly ordered Communion, its predecessor, via Amazon. I'm not familiar with UFO/alien abduction books so approached this with somewhat of a fresh eye. And what I appreciated the most is that, believe him or not, Whitley Strieber is a skilled writer who approaches his subject in a reasoned, almost cerebral way. I don't care how skeptical you are; it's hard not to get