
Dreamland
An Autobiography
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Narrateur(s):
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Barry Abrams
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Auteur(s):
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Bob Lazar
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George Knapp - foreword
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Bob Lazar was a brilliant young physicist that found himself employed at a top-secret facility in the middle of the desert outside Las Vegas. Under the watchful eye of the government elite, he is tasked with understanding an exotic propulsion system being used by an advanced aerospace vehicle he is told came from outer space.
The stressful work and long, odd hours start to wear on Bob and he becomes concerned for his safety. He tells his wife and a couple close friends about what he's doing in the desert, and his employers find out and are furious. When they station goons outside his house, Bob seeks help from wealthy UFOlogist, John Lear, who encourages Bob to take his story to award-winning investigative journalist George Knapp at KLAS-TV, a CBS affiliate.
To prove he's telling the truth, Bob takes a group of people out into the desert to watch a test flight of the "flying saucer." On the way home, they are stopped by the police, who notify the base, and Bob loses his job. In a series of interviews with CBS TV, Bob Lazar then blows the lid off "Area 51", blows the whistle on the effort to conceal this craft from the American people, and blows up his career as a top physicist.
©2019 Interstellar (P)2019 TantorFantastic essential reading.
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Great book!
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This book is written with glaring preoccupation with simile/metaphor/imagery.. as well as inordinate attention paid to foreshadowing, "banter" dialogue, characterization, and pacing. The result is a little amateurish (Lazar writes like a graduate from a Creative Writing night-class), but readable. The real star of the book is the content, anyway.. and the content is provocative.
Tantor Audio did very well to enlist Barry Abrams to read the book. Abrams exhibits spot-on diction, timbre, cadence, and pacing - but a truly exemplary interested tone. This performance elevates the book: given a choice between a text copy and this iteration - choose the audiobook.. hands down.
Mr. Lazar's 1989 revelations essentially spawned the ufologist community preoccupations surrounding Nellis Air Force Base (a USAF facility in the Nevada desert near Groom Lake). If you have heard of "Area 51".. you can largely thank Lazar. His mindblowing assertions claim that the US Government is hiding evidence of extraterrestrial contact and using captured technology to develop aeronautical craft. There are plenty of controversies (Mr Lazar's unsubstantiated background & criminal history, for example), but this fascinating book - published in 2019 - is a capable telling of iconic allegations.
I was thrilled to get the book as a 'Plus' selection from Audible.. because it rates 7 stars out of 10 - it's not great, but would merit a Credit from curious, open-minded reader/listeners willing to set aside reservations with the legitimately sophomoric writing.
A Fascinating (if Amateurish) Book
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Even those well versed in the story of Bob’s reverse engineering stint at ”S4” will find new snippets and interesting personal touches to the story. This is the first time I personally feel I understand Bob as a person a little bit more and why he made some of those fateful decisions. It really is a story about what could have been and truly feels like there is perhaps much more to be come.
This a larger than life story that forces us to take it more seriously with each decade that passes
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Basically, as part of the background check to give him more clearance his employer discovered marital problems that Bob didn't even know about yet. That kind of problem is a deal breaker for granting top secret clearance, because it makes people emotionally unpredictable and it wasn't safe enough to keep him in the loop.
Lazar's story has always been consistent, and this book is well written.
Excellent story on the key figure of Area 51 lore
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Very interesting
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Eye opening
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Good but not a lot of new information.
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not great
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The narration becomes very easy to listen to, no moments of inconsistent undercurrent, or those moments when it seems like a narrator is just reading words and not present mentally within the story.
I did give the performance 4/5 stars as sometimes the switching of voice didn't match consistently with the speakers. Also, if I were Italian-American, I might have a little issue with one of the accents in the reading. lol.
Really enjoyable book overall.
The story hasn't changed.
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