Endura

Very thorough and well-structured, awful narration

Revisado: 06-28-24

Just as the headline suggests, and as other reviewers have noted.

Captivating yet horrifying, fascinating yet truly tragic. I am looking forward to the rest of this series by the author.

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Good read, but unusually disjointed for Keel

Revisado: 03-29-24

I recommend this to any lover of Keel, but not to more casual readers of this genre and subject matter. Definitely very thought provoking up to the very last sentence, but the writing style was unusually disjointed for Keel. The rhythm and cadence from sentence-to-sentence and paragraph-to-paragraph felt a lot more rough than other works of his in this wheelhouse, such as Our Haunted Planet. Still something I will proudly have ob my bookshelf, nonetheless.

Narration was EXCELLENT. I love Michael Hacker, and he is also one of the few people that can really capture Keel's "writing voice". Recording quality and editing was perfect 👌

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6 out of 5 stars, with excellent narration

Revisado: 12-26-23

It would be impossible to describe the experience of this book without detailing the things that happened to me while reading it.

So all I can say is that you do not find this book. IT finds YOU.

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Superior Translation, Narration Deserves Awards

Revisado: 12-13-23

I read the first English translation years ago, and thought Solaris was "good", but wasn't blown away by it per se. However, upon realizing there was an allegedly far superior translation made more recently than the one I had read, I jumped onto this version to see what I'd potentially missed.

The biggest change from one translation to the next is almost entirely made of the subtle differences in mood and atmosphere. The book reads much differently as a result, and has an at times vague and oppressive anxiety that is being lived by the main character. While these were not always comfortable feelings, this gave the story MUCH more depth and "texture" to the story, as well as the general vibe of the entire book.

As for the execution of audio version.. all I can say is that this narration deserves awards and is probably one of the most expertly narrated audio books I've ever heard. If I rated "Overall" and "Story" as 5/5 stars, I'd give "Narration" a 6/5 stars if I could.

Do not skip this one, it is Eastern Bloc sci-fi at its absolute finest, and one of my favorite sci-fi novels of all time.

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Inconsistent Research Quality, Hasn't Aged Well

Revisado: 09-12-23

This was a weird read, but not because of the subject matter itself.

It is at times quite lazily researched, and at others is very, very well done. The writing style is at times succinct and articulate, and at others it is long-winded and prone to exaggeration.

I'm glad I stuck through to the very end, but the frustrating qualities of the book were present almost to the very last few sentences. While the ending landed the book on a better note, it was not enough to save it, in my opinion.

I'm still glad I read it, but it's a real tragedy that the author pretends to be in the area between both "skepticism" and "belief". There is so much wrong with the UFO field in general, but there is also some extremely serious research and evidence that was ignored by Pilkington.

The biggest disappointment is that it hasn't aged well in a post-2017 world in regards to UFO's/UAP's, but it still provides valuable insight into intelligence agency psy-ops for those that are interested, especially as it pertains to the UFO phenomenon in general.

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I'd give 6 stars if I could

Revisado: 03-29-23

The absolute pinnacle of Huxley's body of work, and a monumental articulation pointing to that which cannot be said.

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30 years and his story has never changed

Revisado: 08-11-22

While I wish this book would have been much longer, overall it was a great read. He could have gone into MUCH more detail about working at the actual facility, as he left out details he has brought up in interviews.

However, he also went into details of his story overall that he has never gone into before, the much more internalized and personal things. This is what really made the book for me, but anyone already familiar with his story will want more of the nitty gritty... Especially regarding the alleged materials he was in possession of outside the facility. But that's the sexy stuff, which wasn't the real point.

Narration was good, but inconsistent. It did not dent the overall listen too much though, and I'd still highly recommend this.

Hear it in his own words. Not someone else's.

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Narrator sounds like George Carlin

Revisado: 08-08-22

Narrator sounds like George Carlin and it made me laugh a few times, it was unintentionally hilarious at times. Dives way too hard into the Moon instead of focusing on Remote Viewing, which is only about the first 1/3rd of the book.

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The absolute best of Alan Watts

Revisado: 08-08-22

I've listened to this twice already and will probably listen again. If I could only pick one collection of Watts' lectures to be able to listen to for the rest of my life, and only one, this would be it.

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Gritty, fascinating, and raw. But racist?

Revisado: 08-06-22

Let's start out by saying that I saw a lot of very negative reviews describing this book as "racist", so not knowing who to believe I decided to find out for myself. I listened to the entire book, paying close attention for bias and rose-coloring. This was NOT a quick read / listen, so I put a lot of my own energy re-absorbing sections of the book to make sure I understood them fully. This is a historical deep dive, and as such it has a lot of moving parts that need to be explained in order to understand specific events, groups, institutions, and individuals.

My conclusion is that the people who wrote the deeply negative reviews citing "racism" either simply didn't read the book and made embarrassingly enormous assumptions of it, or they only read very short excerpts and took them wildly out of context. It is worth mentioning that virtually all these negative reviews (usually a single star) are barely a sentence or two, and never use any specific examples to back up claims of "racism" beyond a few very short phrases that are so far out of context that it's as if they didn't read the sentences and paragraphs immediately before and after their "excerpt".

In fact, the author spends so much time highlighting the faults, strengths, lies, inconsistencies, and virtues of all the involved characters and groups that he often has to make significant (but valuable) detours to explain them fully. While this makes for lengthy reading / listening, what it achieves is a vastly greater illustration of the subtle and weaving fabric of events that make up the tapestry of real history (or the closest we can make of it given what is available to research, which in this case is still quite a lot).

Real and accurate history is usually ugly and uncomfortable, no matter whose side you think you're on initially. Real life doesn't exist in only two shades of black and white, and neither does history. It should be no surprise to anyone that a thorough and honest look at any historical time and place is going to reveal some horrors that we find uncomfortable, shocking, and surprising. The subject matter here is no different, but it clearly destroys certain very inaccurate historical narratives that have been peddled into pop culture for many decades, thus offending those who operate in very shallow two-dimensional frames of mind.

One of the best historical books I've read in a very, very long time. Don't fall for the bad reviews, unless you like your history heavily diluted with revisionism and pop-culture myths.

Highly recommended!

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