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Indlæser... A Magick Life: A Biography of Aleister Crowley (2000)af Martin Booth
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. Utterly fascinating biography of an utterly fascinating character, Having previously stopped reading Crowley's own "autohagiography" midway through as I couldn't handle his vain, pompous prose, it's good to be able to read a more rounded biography of a man often far ahead of his time. Now I think I may even end up finishing Crowley's own book after all. ( ) Of the nearly innummerable Crowley bios I have read, this one may be the best for the curious layperson. Its facts are pretty solid throughout; and it is highly readable and well organized. The author confesses that he doesn't know much about magick, and while that lack does show occasionally, his caution in that department rescues him from technical howlers that plague even such sage treatments as Kaczysnki's Perdurabo. The tone of this book manages to stay in the wide middle ground between the derision of Symonds' Great Beast (a.k.a. King of the Shadow Realm) and the adulation of Suster's Legacy of the Beast. Unfortunately, it looks like its timing sucked: arriving just before Sutin's Do What Thou Wilt, it was mostly washed under by the tide of Crowley bios. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
Crowley advocated the practice of magick and encouraged his followers to create their own life styles and develop a keen self knowledge. He wrote many books on his subject and is still revered as the master of the dark arts with books and websites and followers all over the world. Martin Booth has used his skills as a biographer to encapsulate the man and his extraordinary life-style in a chilling tale of magic and intrigue. Ingen biblioteksbeskrivelser fundet. |
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