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2012: The War for Souls
by
Whitley Strieber (Goodreads Author)
December 21, 2012, may be one of the most watched dates in history. Every 26,000 years, Earth lines up with the exact center of our galaxy. At 11:11 on December 21, 2012, this event happens again, and the ancient Maya calculated that it would mark the end, not only of this age, but of human consciousness as we know it.
But what will actually happen? The end of the world? A...more
But what will actually happen? The end of the world? A...more
Hardcover, 319 pages
Published
September 18th 2007
by Tor Books
(first published January 1st 2007)
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From Publishers Weekly
Strieber's epic sequel to 2006's The Grays blends equal parts science fiction thriller, supernatural horror and provocative spiritual speculation. As struggling author Wylie Dale works on his latest novel, which revolves around an upcoming date when the earth crosses both the galactic equator and the solar ecliptic—a time that the Maya predicted would mark the cataclysmic end of this age—he begins to uncover evidence that what he's writing about is actually happening on a p...more
Strieber's epic sequel to 2006's The Grays blends equal parts science fiction thriller, supernatural horror and provocative spiritual speculation. As struggling author Wylie Dale works on his latest novel, which revolves around an upcoming date when the earth crosses both the galactic equator and the solar ecliptic—a time that the Maya predicted would mark the cataclysmic end of this age—he begins to uncover evidence that what he's writing about is actually happening on a p...more
Sep 15, 2008
Dave
rated it
1 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
anyone who has to have every book Strieber's written - and no one else.
Shelves:
sci-fi
This book taught a number of important lessons. Most notably, that sometimes the staff recommendations at my local Barnes & Noble are not to be trusted. They were apparently duped by whomever wrote this Publishers' Weekly quote on the back cover:
I am not a judgmental person, and I think that it's good that Publshers' Weekly employs at least one...more
"Fans of apocalyptic page-turners like King's The Stand and Niven and Pournelle's Lucifer's Hammer will enjoy this ambitious — and audacious — tale."
I am not a judgmental person, and I think that it's good that Publshers' Weekly employs at least one...more
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What to say about this book? Writer Whitley Strieber really wants to get across the impending doom of the 2012 date (end of human consciousness -- according to the ancient Mayan calendar). The books catches our attention right away. One of the lead characters, Martin Winters, is in the Pyramid of Khufu in Egypt. He is an archaeologist on a mission. Then the world goes crazy and this pyramid blows up. I was following along and gobbling it down up until this point. Here everything starts to go sou...more
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Na versão portuguesa: "2012 - A guerra das almas", de Whitley Strieber.
Uma obra cujo tema é a profecia do fim do mundo às 11h11 do dia 21 de Dezembro de 2012, segundo os Maias.
Na sinopse da contra-capa (edição Livros d'Hoje) pode ler-se: "Em 2012 pode vir a acontecer um dos marcos mais importantes da História. A cada 26 000 anos, a Terra fica alinhada com o centro da nossa galáxia. Às 11h11, do 21 de Dezembro de 2012, este acontecimento vai voltar a suceder. O povo Maia acreditava que marcaria o...more
Uma obra cujo tema é a profecia do fim do mundo às 11h11 do dia 21 de Dezembro de 2012, segundo os Maias.
Na sinopse da contra-capa (edição Livros d'Hoje) pode ler-se: "Em 2012 pode vir a acontecer um dos marcos mais importantes da História. A cada 26 000 anos, a Terra fica alinhada com o centro da nossa galáxia. Às 11h11, do 21 de Dezembro de 2012, este acontecimento vai voltar a suceder. O povo Maia acreditava que marcaria o...more
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When I first started reading this book, I assumed, because I had come across it at the same time that the movie was released, that the two were related because the names were the same. But, I was so wrong! The movie was basically another "disaster/end of the world" type of movie, whereas the book is an sci-fi book dealing with the concept of parallel universes and the idea that one of these universes is run by evil creatures that are able to assume human form. These creatures have only very rare...more
Mr. Strieber started out as a very competent writer of horror and fantasy novels. Then Communion was released in which he claimed to have been abducted by aliens. It was a fairly interesting story whether you believed it or not. But his fiction suffered since you could no longer separate his fiction from what he claimed as fact. When I read 2012 I was hoping for the return of Strieber the novelist. But it is impossible to tell the fiction from what Strieber is professing to believe. I doubt he r...more
Este é o tipo de livro que é divertido ler não pela sua qualidade literária mas pela quantidade de ideias bizarras por página. Striber, pelos vistos, vai-se juntar a outro dos meus prazeres, Dan Brown, cujas obras se lêem pela mesma razão. Estranheza é coisa que não falta neste semi-apocalíptico 2012. É uma verdadeira caldeirada de ideias obscuras de margem. Tem um pouco de tudo. Profecias maias, helicópteros negros, teorias da conspiração, controle de mente, tecnologia antediluviana, apocalipse...more
what a HORRIBLE book. so, i have about 1900 ebooks to read on my kindle. i figure the best way to parse so many books in so little time (if i live for another 50 years i'll have to read 38 books a year or about 3 books a month) is to take them in alphabetical order and apparently the alphabet starts with numbers.
and i thought "hey, it's 2012 and this book is about 2012, good choice." i hoped that it would be some sort of historical fiction/speculative future that mixed real life data about the m...more
and i thought "hey, it's 2012 and this book is about 2012, good choice." i hoped that it would be some sort of historical fiction/speculative future that mixed real life data about the m...more
2012 The War for Souls a Sci-Fi fiction novel by Whitley Strieber lots of things were happening. There are 2 different universes and 3 main people. There is Wylie Dale an author writing a book, Martin, and Samson a former general that wants to help the aliens. I don't get why Samson wanted to do it that time because if the aliens destroys the earth than they might just betray Samson. It would be like " Thanks for helping us and now we don't need your help anyone." It is a strange sci-fi and it h...more
First off, this book sucked big time.
The description from the back made it sound good but the constant jumping between parallel worlds made it confusing and, for myself, hard to keep track of the various characters in each world. The other thing that confused the hell out of me was that in an early chapter it lists 1 date then the next chapter lists an earlier date and the story continues from there. It actually started off pretty good once I was able to keep track of things in the other worlds...more
The description from the back made it sound good but the constant jumping between parallel worlds made it confusing and, for myself, hard to keep track of the various characters in each world. The other thing that confused the hell out of me was that in an early chapter it lists 1 date then the next chapter lists an earlier date and the story continues from there. It actually started off pretty good once I was able to keep track of things in the other worlds...more
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I'll admit, my interest is more than a little peaked about 2012, and the historical background and predictions surrounding the much-anticipated date. So, 2012: The War for Souls practically jumped off the library shelf and into my eager hands.
I've never read anything by Whitley Strieber, and I was very young when he wrote Communion and received all the attention for the work. So I was even more intrigued by the book.
I really enjoyed the first third of the 2012. I devoured the first 10 chapters...more
I've never read anything by Whitley Strieber, and I was very young when he wrote Communion and received all the attention for the work. So I was even more intrigued by the book.
I really enjoyed the first third of the 2012. I devoured the first 10 chapters...more
I have read many theories about the year 2012 and the Mayan calendar. I have also read many theories about the 'end times'. Nothing I had read previously prepared me for the unique approach to the end of time that this author takes. We're talking parallel universes where events occur simultaneously. We're talking about aliens from another planet/universe. Or are we the aliens and are they the true reality? Lot of universe-crossing in this story but I'll admit that it draws you in sort of like th...more
Move over 2012, the movie, and make room for something that has creativity, thoughtfulness, spirituality and plenty of action. This is the first book I've read by Whitley Strieber, so I was not affected by his other stories. This story has three settings, each in a parallel planet. It takes place near the winter solstice 2012, a time when portals to the three different worlds open as they did 15,000 years earlier. Two of the worlds are twin earths with some variations. The third world contains t...more
It's December 2012, and structures around the world, hidden by famous landmarks, are rising all around the world and releasing lights that attack people, robbing them of their souls. What stays behind is an empty shell, wandering aimlessly on the Earth. It seems the apocalypse as predicted by ancient mayans will actually happen... only this is a parallel Earth. On our Earth a famous writer called Wylie Dale (who claims was abducted by aliens) is having blackouts where he sees his parallel-world,...more
The title, 2012, is based on the date the our world is due to end according to the Mayan calendar, December 21, 2012 and the events leading up to that date in 3 parallel universes. Universe 1 is our present day Earth; Universe 2 has two moons but is parallel to our Earth in every way, including portals that cross between the two, and Universe 3 contains the dinosaurs never died out but continued to evolve and who now want to populate Universe 1 and 2. While the story held my interest enough to f...more
Took me for ever to get though the book, slow paced and really hard to get into (I actually never did get into the book, which is sad since the author is a good one in general) and even harder to stay connected with the story line as it was presented.
Getting into mirror worlds and other such aspects though make for great story telling and the like, just didn't help the novel it only served to me to make it more disjointed then it already was, there was no feeling of coming to a conclusion at th...more
Getting into mirror worlds and other such aspects though make for great story telling and the like, just didn't help the novel it only served to me to make it more disjointed then it already was, there was no feeling of coming to a conclusion at th...more
We all know about the Mayan calendar and the doomsday warning for 2012. We start with an archeologist on a dig and move quickly to an author writing a science fiction book and somewhere along the way the lines get blurry and we are drawn into a parallel universe and earth invasion. Sound confusing? It was a little bit. I had to keep flipping back a little to remember where I was in the layers of parallel in this book. (With due respect to the author I was trying to read the book with the Olympic...more
This book was not really what I had expected. I don't know if I was looking for more of the concepts put forth in the film "2012" (which IS NOT an adaptation of this book, by the way) or some intense fictional study of the Mayan long count.
What is was was a pretty solid piece of work with strong concept of metafiction and fiction vs. reality concepts. It deals more with extraterrestrials, which I should have expected from Strieber and gets more into a sci-fi/horror fiction examination of the loo...more
What is was was a pretty solid piece of work with strong concept of metafiction and fiction vs. reality concepts. It deals more with extraterrestrials, which I should have expected from Strieber and gets more into a sci-fi/horror fiction examination of the loo...more
Scatterbrained at first, a mishmash of new agey philosophy that will fly far over your head if you aren't familiar with Strieber's philosophical bent. His Coast to Coast Interviews with Art Bell would be a good primer for this book. Without them, you may well be lost.
Note on Mr. Strieber's use of "Ann Coulter" in the text: I understand that his and Coulter's political viewpoints are widely divergent, and that he clearly harbors an intense personal dislike for the woman. The appearance of Coulter...more
Note on Mr. Strieber's use of "Ann Coulter" in the text: I understand that his and Coulter's political viewpoints are widely divergent, and that he clearly harbors an intense personal dislike for the woman. The appearance of Coulter...more
This book was kind of difficult to read. I dont know if it was because I fully wasnt into it or what. But I like what the other did by telling it in 3 points of views. That was a very cool technique. I didnt like however, that it took me halfway through the book to figure out what person was in which world. That was a little confusing. The enemies in the book were very creative. Some of the things they did though were a little graphic. I have no problem with that though. Overall, the book was al...more
An interesting book, I thought I would like it a lot more. It skipped around with characters quite a bit so it was not as easy to get into.
I was really interested in seeing the movie after having read this book, thinking it might be better with special effects and characters you could see. So. I watched the movie and was surprised to see a completely different storyline, different characters. Different plot. Hmm, now that I think about it, there was nothing on the cover of the book that even hin...more
I was really interested in seeing the movie after having read this book, thinking it might be better with special effects and characters you could see. So. I watched the movie and was surprised to see a completely different storyline, different characters. Different plot. Hmm, now that I think about it, there was nothing on the cover of the book that even hin...more
Okay, I will be honest... this book is weird as hell. There were times that I was just thinking "wtf?" That said, I couldn't stop reading it. I'm not saying that I couldn't put it down but I had some strange compulsion to finish reading it even though occasionally I had my doubts. I finished it in about three days and I didn't feel like I wasted my time afterwards like I do with some books. There were even some things I liked about it... like some of the characters.
I guess what I'm trying to ge...more
I guess what I'm trying to ge...more
Bem este livro foi... uma perda de tempo. Achei-o bastante ridículo, do início ao fim, com um estilo de escrita atroz e personagens que não me puxaram. O enredo não tem ponta por onde se lhe pegue, não tem sequência e principalmente, não tem coerência. Algumas cenas parecem mesmo retiradas da versão cinematográfica de "A Guerra dos Mundos" (pessoas a fugir e a serem "capturadas", e isso tudo)
Só leva duas estrelas porque, não sei bem como, consegui lê-lo até ao fim. Mas a classificação é mais 1 e...more
Só leva duas estrelas porque, não sei bem como, consegui lê-lo até ao fim. Mas a classificação é mais 1 e...more
Aug 14, 2010
Penny Ramirez
rated it
1 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Shelves:
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sf
This had a great premise - I thought - but I couldn't get past the 2nd disc. Didn't like the narrator, and didn't like the alternate history facets - I like my post-apocalyptic/dystopic/while the apocalypse is happening stuff to be set in my United States, thank you very much. I used to like Streiber, so I thought I'd give this one a try, especially as the year 2012 approaches, but I couldn't buy into the "US is the weakest empire of the 5 empires currently ruling the earth" theory. Plus I didn'...more
Whitley Strieber is one of my favorite authors because Communion is the scariest book I have ever read. The Greys & Transformation, while good but not as good as Communion, still managed to be creepy. I knew from the start that 2012 was not dealing with the Greys but had faith that Whitley could make the Seraph just as creepy. The book started off with an interesting premise, the black lenses, the writer with a mysterious connection with another world. However as the book progresses things f...more
I really went back and forth on this one. The detail is very... detailed. But there are part of this book where it really felt like the author put the writing down and just didn't bother to re-read the previous bit before starting again; serious contradictions. Because I read this in a continuation, these contradictions not only stand out, they grate against me.
Furthermore, there were so many areas of the book where Strieber went into so much detail it was like diarrhea of the pen, where the de...more
Furthermore, there were so many areas of the book where Strieber went into so much detail it was like diarrhea of the pen, where the de...more
Aug 08, 2011
Alan Hoffman
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The cover gives you the impression that in this fictional work there may be some serious discussion of aliens or the events speculated to happen on 2012. It isn't. It also is not a sequel to his fiction novel The Grays.
If anything it reminds me ofthe latter installments of Stephen King's Dark Tower series, (King fans may hate me for this) where King was almost free associating plotwise and throwing in any story elements with the kitchen sink to complete his horror/fantasy adventure, including ro...more
If anything it reminds me ofthe latter installments of Stephen King's Dark Tower series, (King fans may hate me for this) where King was almost free associating plotwise and throwing in any story elements with the kitchen sink to complete his horror/fantasy adventure, including ro...more
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American writer best known for his horror novels The Wolfen and The Hunger and for Communion, a non-fiction description of his experiences with apparent alien contact. He has recently made significant advances in understanding this phenomenon, and has published his new discoveries in Solving the Communion Enigma.
Strieber also co-authored The Coming Global Superstorm with Art Bell, which inspired t...more
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the satan will say thats the heaven under the earth & u will see the hell passing upon ur head
in this time the satan will appear...more
Apr 03, 2012 12:34pm