fu reviewed They Are Already Here by Sarah Scoles
An anthropological look at the UFO community, told through first-person experiences with researchers in their …
EX-Mormon Take on UFOology?
3 stars
received this audiobook as Part of LibraryThing's Early review program.
I spent most of the book trying to figure out what the the author's deal was. Now that I've completed it, I'm still not completely sure. She's a Mormon turned atheist, and she seems to spend much of the book arguing that UFOlogoy is a modern day religion.
The book is more about the people who "study" UFOs than the UFOs themselves.
She doesn't really explain the "Why we See Saucers" mentioned in the subtitle of the book other than a flimsy argument that we see them because we want to see them.
I will say the version of an "official" story about the Roswell incident that she recount's here is the first one I have heard that holds any water.
As far as its quality as an audiobook: I was pleasantly pleased that they are still making CD versions …
received this audiobook as Part of LibraryThing's Early review program.
I spent most of the book trying to figure out what the the author's deal was. Now that I've completed it, I'm still not completely sure. She's a Mormon turned atheist, and she seems to spend much of the book arguing that UFOlogoy is a modern day religion.
The book is more about the people who "study" UFOs than the UFOs themselves.
She doesn't really explain the "Why we See Saucers" mentioned in the subtitle of the book other than a flimsy argument that we see them because we want to see them.
I will say the version of an "official" story about the Roswell incident that she recount's here is the first one I have heard that holds any water.
As far as its quality as an audiobook: I was pleasantly pleased that they are still making CD versions in 2020. In fact when I finally received it I hadn't even realized it was going to be an audiobook, and I love audiobooks on CD. The reader was OK. Her voice wasn't annoying or anything, but personally I always prefer audiobooks that are read by the author.
