Joshua Byrd reviewed Communion by Whitley Strieber
Review of 'Communion' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
There's something about owls and aliens...
Paperback, 320 pages
English language
Published Nov. 7, 1987 by Beech Tree Books.
On December 26, 1985, at a secluded cabin in upstate New York, Whitley Strieber went skiing with his wife and son, ate Christmas dinner leftovers, and went to bed early.
Six hours later, he found himself suddenly awake... and forever changed.
Thus begins the most astonishing true-life odyssey ever recorded—one man's riveting account of his extraordinary experiences with visitors from "elsewhere"... how they found him, where they took him, what they did to him and why...
There's something about owls and aliens...
I remember being scared reading this book. Like if Whitley Strieber thought I'd be comforted and intrigued about the possibility of alien life forms coming into my house, kidnapping me, and performing experiments upon my being he was sorely mistaken. ugh. Still gives me the creeps when I'm home alone and I hear a noise in the middle of the night!
Being an astronomy fan myself, I often encounter the issue of UFO sightings and abductions in my readings. It seems that once you begin to discuss the cosmos, little green men have to enter the equation. Even though I really have no opinion on such things I thought it necessary to at least have read this very often referred to account of an abductee. My thoughts: once you've read this, you need not read any other abductee story because this defines the 'stereotype'.