The Book I Read in Roswell
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I visited Roswell some years ago.

After spending a couple of days going through the museum & looking around, I found this book in the UFO Museum library.  I flicked through it, compared it to the evidence in the museum & realised that Pflock was right!  It was all baloney.

This doesn't mean that there are no flying saucers, just that Roswell wasn't one.
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Most of us are familiar with cozy mysteries.  I think P. S. Winn has perfected cozy sci-fi.  There is just something deliciously comforting and relaxing crawling into the arms of this book.  It reminded mein a good wayof those Hardy Boys and Alfred Hitchcock mysteries I read as a kid.  Though the ensemble cast involves some thirty-somes on the adventure of their lives, I guess it just bought back those fun times for me when, during my childhood, high school, and college years, I had friends that were that tight, and we were always up for getting into one kind of trouble or another.  In the case of this story, the trouble they're up to is an army base at the edge of town that taunts them with animal mutilations, strange disappearances, and people being returned to them forever changed.  When our heroes return from a camping trip one day, having gone to investigate the military base, having no recollection of what went on up there, they are more determined than ever to get to the root of the mystery.  And our story is off and running.

The author does a great job of living up to the excitement of alien contact sci-fi genre expectations.  I also found the dialogue, chapter cliff hangers, and overall plot structure excellent for conveying a real sense of conspiracy playing out against the people of this small local town.  One can imagine the conspiracy is in the name of national security but that hardly seems to scratch the surface.

The hard sci-fi elements were handled believably, and sufficient detail as to how the underlying alien technology works is given to punch up the overall sense of realism of the story.  Fans of Area 51 and Roswell stories will find the author enriches the body of literature on the subject by adding fascinating twists and angles not found elsewhere.

The brisk novella could easily have been unfolded into a larger size novel using essentially the same plot points, only letting the reader discover some of the information that he/she is spoon-fed through the dialogue.  That said, I respect the authors choices.  In fact, I picked up this book, when I was getting ready to start another, because I felt in the mood for a shorter read to decompress from the big books Ive been devouring.
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The whole Roswell thing has been gone over and over by writers, TV, comic books -- indeed all media (except maybe hip hop or rap). I resist anything on the topic. Still, the reviews made me buy it as well as the follow on 'Immune'. Even worse, it is about teens, and so many scifi stories with teens are drivel unless you is one. I gave that up 50 years ago and pretty much concluded that Heinlein had fully tapped out that market.
Well, I guess that ain't so. This one has three teens as its principals, and I haven't yet puked over their intuitive brilliance, having become potty trained in a half day, or other extraordinary feats. In the Second Ship, there is actually a powerful external influence that pulls/pushes them along, making it all fanciful but credible. There are also evil doers, mad scientists, gunslingers, self appointed messiahs, beautiful but deadly women, devoted parents (not all of whom can cook well), crooked politicians (is that redundant?) and a bevy of other archtypes. Stir them all together and they create a stew that was entertaining, mostly quick moving, and a definate prelude to reading the second entry, which I have already downloaded. I liked it a lot, and only give 5-stars when I really love it love it love it. So 4 stars can be considered a recommendation.
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The book was in the condition that I was told.

I've read this before, but I'm writing a fiction story that has some similarities and wanted this book for research. This is such a strange case, I can't help but wonder if they actually found out the truth. Of course I saw the movie based on the book too.
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For a long time I'd never even heard of Roswell. Then, one day, when I was working in the library, I came across two of the books from the series. I immediatly read them, and have been hooked ever since. I was thrilled to discover that they had a t.v. show and bought the first season the very next day. I loved it! I'm sorry to see this show go. However, this was still a season and final farewell. BUY IT!!!!!!!
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Theres something about a mystery which is on the supernatural and ghostly side which really fascinates many people  me included. The story of Broad Haven and the UFO sightings is well known but since this is the 40 year anniversary of that day when children of a small Welsh village claimed to have seen something otherworldly I dug out my copy of The Watchers and reread it.

What a fascinating story and I can only hope this becomes a TV programme like the authors early book of Harry Price and Borley Rectory did as I would lap it up as Im sure many others would. The story is fascinating on every level  the small boy who remembers his grandfather warning him of  dangers and then his return many years later when working for the British Goverment amidst claims of their cover up along with the US airforce of strange happenings, strange figures watching over a small triangle of Welsh coast.

Ive been to Roswell in New Mexico where in the mid-1947, a United States Air Force balloon crashed at a ranch near prompting claims that the crash was of an extraterrestrial spaceship. I shiver as I remember my time there and also when I read this book as .what if its true? Or at least some of it?Are we really alone? What did those children see?

A fascinating book and a really good way of visiting a remote part of Wales  I was there with the wind hitting my face (as opposed to something else which drops from the sky!) and walking along with the Stacks Rocks in the background. What ever you think of this extraterrestrial subject, you cant say this book isn't fascinating. And just maybe it will make you think differently

If I was brave enough I might head down to Broad Haven but Im only just getting over Roswell! Neil Spring is an excellent guide to both the area and the subject which still haunts in every sense of the word. Read more and see the map of locations on TheBookTrail.com
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I think the book was really fantastic! My name is Brian Watts and I enjoy reading the book and listening to the audio CD version of the book as well.
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Not as good as the original, but i still give it 5 stars because I could not put it down until I read the whole thing which is the sign of a really good book
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i got  today . i saw nice review about this book . but that's true it was one of nice Star trek book .  I Love It so much . i am very new star trek fun  but book cover a lot of beging to all 5 TV shows . if you one get yourselfe or you know some trekkeys friend to gife this is Nice also i am Higrly Reccomand  . thank you
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I choose this rating because it was a great book. I really liked it because I could really see like some of the scenes from the movie. I recommend this book to people that like wizards and witches watchdog people that liked the movie and has not read the book yet.
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From the Roswell crash to the Farmington Wave this book has it all. I really loved the crashed UFO chapter. Im a big fan of Landings and onboard encounters chapters also. He also covers cattle mutilations and the Taos hum. I love Preston Dennett's work.
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I thought the 5 stars would be "The Purrrrrfect Book" so I gave it four stars. But I liked Vesper One, I liked the main idea they chose, I liked the creepy messages, and I'm getting into "Cahills V.S. Vespers" I would recommend this book, to anyone with remote imagination so you could picture yourself in the most action-filled and horror-filled moments. Also I would recommend it to anyone who wants to pass the time, 39 clues are great series and great books.
Sincerely, Total Waesomeness
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I first started reading in Oct/Nov 1985.  Took me a little while to "get into" it, because then, I read slowly and hated most books. But by about mid Dec 1985 it suddenly dawned on me that "this guy knows what he is talking about" (the author). Also, did dawn on me that THAT Book had the answer, the real true answer. Or at least the beginning answer of the whole problem. (You know, the step in the right direction.) And so it was. As I read that book the first time, I sometimes put down for a few weeks to let the data "sink in" for awhile. Because it also meant I would have to face up to some areas of my own life that were going to be a bit tough to get through. Which they were, but not as tough as I thought. Anyway, I plugged through the entire book. Took me until like Feb/March 1986. And he (the author LRH) explained the main principles like 14 times, and I got the understanding very well of what it was all about. And life has not necessarily been easier since, but I understood what the issues were, and I could function. But life had meaning after, whereas before that book, not knowing that data, I was lost on "road nowhere".  I was 20 and all life goals were fading away. But after knowing that data, I knew how to plow through difficulties, and knew I could make it. And I have achieved most of the goals which I had dropped, which I now have accomplished.  You understand, that was 1985/86, and it did take some learning of more LRH principles too, but these only augmented Dianetics info, added to it. And I've probably re-read that book 5, 6 ,8 times by now, and understand even more each time. But you have to really read it, not just gloss over the data. And you have to let it sink in for awhile, because it really is far reaching.  And quite frankly, had I not read that book, then, I would surely be dead, because in 1985/1986, I was into some very seriously wrong things. And in a few seconds, by about midway into that book, I new I could climb out of the troubles I was into... All, yes, the entire world's troubles and resolutions to those troubles are in that book too. Volcano is perfect front cover... and people who are against Dianetics, or mock it, well, they have their troubles too, which that book also explains them thoroughly... they will take longer, but they will make it too...
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I liked the book because I read it as I was becoming a "Pyscho Stalker". The book made me realize what I was doing. So I sat back, laughed, and got over him real quick!
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I love fiction, especially science fiction books.  This book was very interesting.  I like how well it was written.  There was alot of detail about things that gave the book a very real feel.  I found myself wondering about the characters when I could not read he book.  I think it is a wonderful book and I love the theme. I bought the second one and I am going to get the third one to finish the series.  I recommend it!!
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I wish the author had not included the UFO angle in the title.  This book is much more and probably the best city guide I have ever read. It is much more than a shallow look at the restaurants and clubs must supposed guide books are.  It has actual depth.  It covers the history of Roswell, linking the people with current homes and buildings, and it has a playfulness to it that makes reading enjoyable. It covers the current as well as the past and is very well rounded.