The Eighth Tower by John A. KeelMy rating: 1 of 5 stars
Did you read the Mothman Prophecies? Did you love how mysterious it all was, and were you intrigued by how rationally this John Keel fellow was compiling accounts of these bizarre goings-on?
Well, here you have it: The Eighth Tower is all the stuff the editors wouldn't let him publish!
What they cut, it seems, was hundreds of pages of very confident assertions about how the aliens built the pyramids! how the Bible was psychically dictated to the prophets! how "Caesar, Napoleon, Lincoln, Edison and so many more all had brief contacts with the supermind of the universe"!
And yes, that stuff can be funny. But this book is not fun. This is John Keel's laborious attempt to fit everything supernatural he's ever encountered or heard reported into one giant theory about vibrations on a superspectrum. It's eye-glazingly longwinded.
I loved Keel's The Mothman Prophecies. Suspense! Terror! Mystery! But this is more math! diagrams! rambling! Take a pass. Read Hunt for the Skinwalker instead.
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