APhew Wrote:This is known to alien buffs as "lost time". The experience also applies to the works of F. Paul Wilson. The unwary person sitting down to read one of his novels not realizing what they are getting into may find that hours of their lives are sucked away in what seems like a relatively short span of time.

Last year in an undisclosed location in South America we ran tests on subjects with a variety of the man's work, all of which turned out the same results over and over again. They would begin reading and after twelve hours a loud bell was rung. We'd then ask the subjects how long they thought they had been reading and averaged the results. Can you believe: FIVE MINUTES. Some passed out from dehydration and others could not be brought out of the book no matter what type of external stimuli was applied.

We have repeatedly tried to get him to put a warning in the front of his novels, but so far he refuses. There is a theory going around that it might be a ploy for world domination, but it's merely conjecture at this point.

You have been warned.

Bluesman Mike Lindner Wrote:[QUOTE=KRW]To further this warning, we have conducted simialer research in the desert with the temperature reaching 121 degrees in the shade. And we recorded simialer results! The test subjects where asked to sit in the blistering heat and read "The Tomb" for six hours with out food or water! We then had to wrestle the books from them. We placed the books next to a very tall, inviting glass of iced water and the results were the same in every case. The subjects ALWAYS reached for the book and ran off to finish without a second glance at the water!

The most unusual aspect about this test is we used illeagal immigrants (for liability purposes) and not one understood a word of English! The conclusion being that FPW even trancends the language barrier on another level that we have failed to recognize. Needless to say, more testing is needed!

Intriguing results, KRW. My own research group undertook a similar study in the frozen wastes of Antarctica. We found that the penguins danced like James Brown when they read a scene in CRISSCROSS : "Name's not Lou. It's Jack."

jimbow8 Wrote:That would be pretty funny to see a penguin do the "duck walk"

Maggers Wrote:I wonder how you all respond to Paul's books.

I was on the subway the other day re-reading "The Haunted Air." I got so lost in the book that I quite literally forgot where I was. A sound distracted me and I looked up, baffled to find myself on a train. I was so in the experience of RJ, Lyle, Charlie and the Pomerols that I couldn't remember my destination, couldn't fix on whether I was traveling uptown or down, couldn't remember where I'd come from. The experience lasted for several seconds and was disorienting.

That is how deeply engrossed I become in Paul's books. He pulls me into his world and it becomes mine, to the point where I lose my own reality for a moment or two. What a trip! The perfect out of body experience!

How about you?

KRW Wrote:The most unusual aspect about this test is we used illeagal immigrants (for liability purposes) and not one understood a word of English! The conclusion being that FPW even trancends the language barrier on another level that we have failed to recognize. Needless to say, more testing is needed!

KRW