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	2012: The War for Souls Whitley Strieber Tor Books, 2007 - 320 pages average customer review:based on 86 reviews view larger image
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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 new age for mankind? Nothing? The last time this happened, Cro-Magnon man suddenly began creating great art in the caves of southern France, which to this day remains one of the most inexplicable changes in human history. Now Whitley Strieber explores 2012 in a towering work of fiction that will astound readers with its truly new insights and a riveting roller-coaster ride of a story. A mysterious alien presence unexpectedly bursts out of sacred sites all over the world and begins to rip human souls from their bodies, plunging the world into chaos it has never before known. Courage meets cowardice, loyalty meets betrayal as an entire world struggles to survive this incredible end-all war. Heroes emerge, villains reveal themselves, and in the end something completely new and unexpected happens that at once lifts the fictional characters into a new life, and sounds a haunting real-world warning for the future.

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2012: The War for Souls......

2012: The War for Souls tells the story of one Martin Winters. An archeologist at the pyramids in Giza where something is happening, something where people around the globe begin experiencing the bizarre effects of mysterious dark lenses rising out of the earth. What these lenses are, and even more importantly whom they serve, sends Winters on a mission to find the truth as the date of December 21, 2012 closes in, a date predicted by the ancient Mayan as the end of time. Enter science fiction writer Wiley Dale, who discovers he is living a plight much alongside Winters' own. The two heroes must find a way to merge their realities in order to save the world from one impending fate.

Over the years, Whitley Steiber has written all sorts of books. From books on vampires to aliens to climate change and global superstorms. Crossing the lines at times between Fiction and Non-Fiction. Now, he tackles the enigma surrounding belief that the world will end in 2012 thanks to the Mayan Prophecies and with good results. This book is an absolute page-turner. For a science-fiction read, it's actually a pretty good book, much in the same vein of "The Stand" & "Lucifer's Hammer"(an apocolyptic thriller, if you will) and "War of the Worlds". I will agree with the majority that, at times, there were lulls in the book that made me want to put it down for awhile. Yet, I kept on and it ended up worth it in the end.

Will creation end as we know it in 2012 as Mayan Prophecy suggests? Not even the angels in heaven know when the world will end. At any rate, this is an intense read with lots of sci-fi intrigue and action that'll get your heart a pumpin'. I really enjoyed it.

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Stupid - but a good read

This is one crazy ride. It's filled with a bunch of incredible and unbelievable situations that just had me shaking me head incredously. There are certainly better "alternate universe" stories out there - but this was so far out in left field that the story somehow kept my attention.

The character development in the story is what saved this book for me. I found myself getting attached to the folks involved in these crazy worlds that I couldn't put the book down simply because I wanted to see what happened to them. Had Strieber not created some characters you give a flip about - I never would have stayed with this one.

This is just a really wierd sci-fi tale that is surprisingly well written and told very well at that.

In regards to Whitley I have to say that this guy had to have written this book under the influence of some whacky drugs or he is paranoid-schitzophranic (or perhaps both). He has one strange imagination....

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