At least I enjoyed the first half of this book. The story moves along nicely, and some of the characters are quite interesting- leading man WIll Boden, Moyle, the taciturn old salt, and Gar Chamberlain, a young kid out to see the world. But others are as flat as comic-book villains- like nouveau riche industrialist and white hunter wanna'-be Carl Shenck, or Percival, the stuffy and stern English sea captain with a dark secret.

As the lavishly appointed "Lodestar" ventures into the arctic north, the tale grows increasingly wild. Ernest Shackleton meets "Heart of Darkness". I challenge the reader to locate another book in which death comes in the forms of polar bear attack, serial killer, and harpooning by an Eskimo lynch mob. What a mess; I mean, a serial killer! ... I felt the novel really lost its focus.

In the sprit of being constructive, I feel that any of the following books would pose a superior alternative for the reader interested in Arctic voyages: - Christoph Ransmayr's "The Terrors of Ice and Darkness" - Sebastian Junger's popular title, "The Perfect Storm" (fishing on the Grand Banks, close enough) - Barry Lopez, "Arctic Dreams" (not much sailing, but excellent, worth reading for the chapters on Narwhals and Polar Bears alone) - Alfred Lansing, "Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage" (which takes place in the Antarctic, but it's as harrowing a tale as you'll ever find, and entirely true)

Like Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain, Voyage to the North Star is an adventure story written at a deep heartfelt level. Nichols's epic story of sailor Will Boden chasing his dreams on a whcko yacht in the arctic goes just as deep. And, with a crew of tragic, lucky and unlucky misfits who all seem wonderfully real and well-drawn, I was taken all the way with them. It's a wild ride. The descriptions of the fogbound arctic seas and tundra landscape are terrific. A great read for the armchair adventurer.

This is a thoughtful book by a man who both loves and understands the sea -- and its risks. Peter Nichols tells a deeply ironic but beautiful story of a wild adventure in the northern reaches of the Atlantic on and around Baffin Island, which is north of Labrador and west of Greenland. In some ways Nichols seems too enamoured with death. Nevertheless, his tale is both exciting and moving and demonstrates a deep understanding of the sea, ships, and the men who sail them. Highly recommended.

While you may find a few legitimate interesting facts and connections buried within Moon's work, be advised that to find them you will have dig through a multitude of almost ridiculous logical leaps that will make you wonder if Moon is a tad schizophrenic, actually believing the nonsense he espouses OR if his ludicrous jumps from one "splendid synchronicity" to another are just an attempt to fill the pages in order to make a buck. If you don't have the stomach for B.S... either read this in short doses, like I have, or don't read it at all...

This book is a real page-turner, I couldn't put it down! This book is much better written than the two books I have read previously (The Montauk Files and Montauk: The Alien Connection), and the research is thorough. Connections were made that dovetailed nicely with my own research. If you get nothing else from these books, *get it* that the world is much bigger and much more complex than it seems, and all is not as it appears to be. If you are wondering why the world today seems unfathomable by our own limited forms of understanding, it is because of the undercurrents that we are not made privy to by those who are in control. If you don't get that, it is certainly not because these writers didn't try...

"The Black Sun: Montauk's Nazi-Tibetan Connection" is one of my favorite books in the Montauk series. As with all of the Montauk books, this book is fairly wild at times and is enjoyable reading. The book covers numerous issues and references many books, yet pieces them together in a unique way. I found the information on the occult interest of the Nazis and the role Tibet supposedly played, to be of most interest.

The book gets contains several photographs of supposed Nazi aircraft that look like UFOs. There are also several interesting illustrations throughout the book.

Reporter Chris Ketchum brings it all home with an excellent,
objective, and honest report on the Montauk Project for national men's magazine, Gear.

See it now on-line at
http://www.geocities.com/montaukprojectexposed/

Don't miss this one!

This book is pretty frucking far out...and I've read a lot of cutting edge stuff. Whose reality are we talkin' about here? The reader must decide for himself.

This, the third book in the series, continues the saga of the secret underground base at Montauk. The author introduces a number of new elements into the mix, such as sacred geometry, the Nazis, and an astonishing amount of synchronicity.

If the information in this book is true, I think I want to start taking Prozac. If this stuff isn't true, it's still the best science fiction I've ever read.

Reporter Chris Ketchum brings it all home with an excellent,
objective, and honest report on the Montauk Project for national men's
magazine, Gear. ...

Don't miss this one!

Take a 12 year old boy, sit him in a basement with a thick pad and a few colored pens, and you have Montauk. Undocumented, unedited, uninteresting, unbelievable. Take the ten bucks you would spend on this and read the Anubis Gates instead. Crikey.

One gets breathless reading, for what could well be, a well-written science fiction story: an episode of THE OUTER LIMITS; One then wonders-chicken or egg? Did these events inspire fiction as they leaked out, or did the TV show inspire the author. Written in such a matter-of-fact style, that one is easily sucked into the proceedings... Totally fraudulant fiction, or secret research on the edge of forever...? Next to the PHILADELPHIA EXPERIMENT, the MONTAUK PROJECT is fast becoming as well known, and even if partly true, is bone chilling;