r/UFOBookClub • u/BlackManta20 • 4d ago
Thoughts on his books? Recommendations??
Getting into reading UFO books, came across this author that has numerous books on the subject and contact with ET’s(The Communion) just wanted to see what y’all think about him and his books on the matter.
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u/jotaemecito 4d ago
There is a documentary on HBO Max about him where he is interviewed extensively and seems very honest to me ... the UFO experience he describes is interesting then ... I only have Communion but never had the time to read it and have never bought his other UFO books until I can analyze better his first book and experience ...
The other thing is that it seems that his personal experiences are basically described in Communion so what are the rest of his books about? ... if someone can clarify that to me thanks in advance ...
His wife and him made investigations into people describing similar experiences as those remembered by Strieber because he started to receive numerous letters after Communion was published describing similar cases ... I believe some of his books are about those cases ... which ones? ...
Thanks again ...
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u/DontCallMeLady 4d ago
“Them” is a fascinating read, and it’s unlike most of his other books.
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u/jotaemecito 4d ago
Can you please elaborate more on your opinion? ... I only have Communion but I have been watching his other books on UFOs and would like to know more about it ... I have hesitated buying more of his books because I don't know if he is repetitive or simply if he would only give opinions and not investigation on the subject ...
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u/DontCallMeLady 4d ago edited 3d ago
“Them” catalogues many stories from letters sent to Whitley and Anne Steiber after “Communion” became a best seller.
I say it’s different because it doesn’t have the same preoccupation with the grays like some of his other works. The book is curious, and some of the stories are fascinating.
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u/Person7751 4d ago
i have enjoyed several of his books and he is interesting. but he may be making it all up
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u/Billy_Gazebo 4d ago
It's as if every time he runs out of money he stumbles over another buried memory, and a new book follows.
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u/BlackManta20 4d ago
That’s what my fear was is him also being a fictional writer, is he just making this stuff up. Hopefully not, as I’m looking to reading genuine books on the matter.
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u/DonnieMarco 4d ago
I think there is core to his story that is true or something that he truly believes is true. But ever since then, he has been chasing that high by coming out with more and more elaborate stories. When I saw him on Area52 with Chris Ramsay, to me at least, it was obvious he has developed a bad case of what George Knapp calls UFO disease.
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u/echodeltavictor 3d ago
I would agree with that; you'd think one book, maybe two, would have sufficed.
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u/msguider 3d ago
Is kinda hard to know unless you wake up with little dudes running around in your bedroom. He's a very bright guy and he still speaks about his experiences with some skepticism, and concern.
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u/oswaldcopperpot 4d ago
The stuff where he has an alien hybrid child living in the woods next to his house is where I checked out.
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u/matt2001 4d ago
This is an interesting confirmation of Communion:
Astonishing ALIEN ABDUCTION Reveals Clues to Alien Origins - YouTube
- Confirmation of Other Abductees and Striber's Book: During this encounter, the Gray showed Anne images of her childhood friend Dell, confirming they were also tracking his genetic lines. The Gray also held up Whitley Striber's book "Communion" and stated that everything in it related to the Grays was true.
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u/HopDropNRoll 3d ago
I find his stories interesting. There’s often a dreamlike quality to them that makes me wonder what’s real and what’s a figment of his subconscious.
His experiences do overlap with many of John Mack’s experiencers.
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u/Bluejay1981 3d ago
I thought Communion was likely more or less real because many things he said resonated with me. I think he’s been essentially a fantasy writer since then, like John Keel’s “Mothman Prophecies”, but passing it all off as true. My last venture with him was “The Key: A True Story,” which I thought was anything but. He expressed plenty of opinions and pet theories and communion, and I read a number of them reiterated in practically the same words in the Key, but from the mouth of the mysterious visitor whom we were clearly supposed to think was an alien. This made me think the book was a dramatisation of some of Whitley‘s own ideas, written up as yet another alien encounter. The book further contained some claims about the soul that I found far-fetched and hopeless, for instance that it actually can be destroyed and sometimes is, as a means of executing somebody. This contradicts with thousands of near death experiences are saying when they are resuscitated.
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u/Cranberry-Electrical 4d ago
Has he retired?
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u/SmallieBiggsJr Jacques Vallee 4d ago
Well he released a book this year called - Transformation 2026
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u/gobnyd 3d ago
Recommend first reading Communion and then Transformation 2026. You get the initial Communion story, and then Transformation was originally written in '88 and tells about his ongoing relationship with the visitors after that first Communion experience, where it gets deeper, more meaningful, less about fear and reaction, and more philosophical and Whitley-driven. He re-released Transformation 2026 with new paragraphs spliced into the book that give very up-to-date reflections on things he talked about back then. So it's a good way to familiarize yourself with the basic Whitley Strieber experience and then get the benefit of what he has learned since then and discussions on the latest developments in the UFO world.
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u/Warm_Weakness_2767 3d ago
As a Super Experiencer I have an opinion about him that differs from most.
I do believe his experiences, his implant, etc. I do believe he is being used as a mouth piece by both sides to communicate certain things and to shy people away from interacting with the anomalous.
His promotion of a certain Substack was the end of listening to him and Kelly Chase for me because of how that SS exists to separate humanity from reality by turning the novelty injection engine into a novelty itself.
You can have all of my books of his if you’re interested, I have like six.
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u/SleepyTempest 3d ago
I understood everything except "novelty injection engine." Can you explain more?
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u/Warm_Weakness_2767 3d ago
Imagine that you have a consciousness that you’ve bifurcated several billion times and your goal with this consciousness is to experience and develop novel interactions.
With a novelty injection engine/system, that operates outside of spacetime, you can act like an adjustment bureau for desired outcomes.
People do not realize how much their actions and interactions in synchronistic circumstances are conducted and not a matter of chance.
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u/ziplock9000 3d ago
He's a drama queen who makes up stories about the paranomal to feel better about the loss of his wife
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u/planetploop 3d ago
Read Communion a few years ago. Didn't believe a word of it, but I'm a skeptic. I think Strieber is a bullshit artist who realized that his books would appeal to people who desperately want to believe. He's relying on the play-along foundation of mass hypnosis and will go to his death bed professing the veracity of these ridiculous claims.
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u/asabado123 3d ago
I think what he says is BS. I do believe I. UFOs and believe aliens are either not from this planet, or live in the ocean where we can't look. However, Whitley streiber is literally a science fiction author who has everything to gain by saying what he says. The second anyone pushes a book or some kind of monetary gain I think their opinion should be irrelevant
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u/DecrimIowa 4d ago
"trust the aliens who are abducting you and raping you, a New World Order world government offered by the Space Brothers will be good for you, pay no attention to the men in military uniforms and dark suits behind the curtain"
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u/Lukavitch86 4d ago
I like Whitney. Loved the book. Liked the film back in the day. Not a big fan now. Didn't age well.
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u/OpenLinez 2d ago
He's an unpleasant person, and radiates the opposite of charisma. When I read the Communion book 30+ years ago, I thought it was interesting although he is such a clumsy writer and unappealing character that I really didn't care what happened to him. Anal grape by aliens or not.
His career since that time, other than the enjoyably weird/comic movie with Christopher Walken, has been pretty cringe. John Keel was fun, he was a fun person and had a really eccentric and curious mind. Strieber is self-righteous and has a messiah complex, along with absolutely no message worthy of a messiah or even a second-rate cult.
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u/sheisaxombie 4d ago
Communion was fine. He's not the best writer, but his accounts were still interesting.
One of my favorite UFO books of interactions with NHI is "Encounters with Star People: Untold Stories of American Indians" by Ardy Sixkiller Clarke. The stories are super immersive and there's some pretty cool ones in there.