The Place of Dead Roads: A Novel

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A good old-fashioned shoot-out in the American West of the frontier days serves as the springboard for this hyperkinetic adventure in which gunslingers lead by Kim Carson fight for galactic freedom.AUTHORBIO: William S. Burroughs was born in St. Louis in 1914.His many other works include NAKED LUNCH and JUNKY.Described by Norman Mailer as one of America's few writers genuinely "possessed by genius," he died in 1997.

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Perhaps Burroughs' Best.......2005-04-08

In my opinion William S. Burroughs was one of the greatest authors of the 20th century.
In this masterpiece the author weaves an incredible series of vignettes, sometimes horrific, into a cohesive and powerful story.
Disturbing, surreal and powerful.

fairly entertaining but not b's best.......2002-02-01

the book starts off well with some deft writing on wild west style duels and guns--burroughs knows his shootin' irons. then there is some good stuff on dividing humankind (and et's too) into johnsons (the good) and non-johnsons (the bad, including the english, the arabs, the venusians, but not the french, who are johnsons.) along way are a few one-liner jokes so funny you have to slap your leg. and in the middle of the book are two wonderful
chapters, one evoking a feeling of loss, the next about a fake rural town peopled by fake rustics, johsonville, that is absolutely hilarious. and toward the end there's an astonishingly funny chapter on kim carsons, the gunslinging hero, being fitted for a proper english suit by an english tailor after entering the shop in a medieval cape that reeks of black palgue. and then near the end as well there's a proper bourroughs's list of the inner circles of hell, including bald, mid-aged men giving birth to centipedes from egg sacks on their heads. that is, there's b at his hallucinatory wildest here and there, but for too many pages there's just dull claptrap attempting to hold the sharper visions together in a ho-hum good vs evil (johnson vs non-) plot. not as stylistically even as b's more sober books such as junky and queer, and not as consistently stoned as naked lunch, but definitely readable.

Burroughs at his Best.......2001-09-07

This may be the most accessible of all of Burrough's books, and proves his brilliant command of the language. He starts with an incredibly strong novel, and then takes us on a head trip through the joys and evils of modern civilization. Remarkably coherent, considering the ground that he covers. Like a few other things, you really can't explain it - just try it and you'll see.

THE MASTER DOES IT AGAIN.......2001-02-15

WILLIAM BURROUGHS AT HIS BEST, PERIOD. DOING HIS VERY OWN VERSION OF NIETSZCHE'S "THE GENEALOGY OF MORAL", BURROUGHS TAKES US ON A TIME AND SPACE SPANNING TRIP TROUGH THE REALMS OF THE SLAVE-GODS, THE LANGUAJE VIRUS (EVER PRESENT IN BURROUGHS MITHOLOGY) AND THE INVADED WOMAN-VESSELS FOR THE CATHOLIC DECEASE, BURROUGHS PROVES ONCE MORE THAT HE CAN DO WHATEVER HE WANTS WITH LANGUAJE, A TRULY MASTERPIECE THAT EXPANDS SEVERAL UNIVERSES WIDE. DO NOT DARE TO MISS IT.

Hyperdimensional and ecstatically conceived.......2001-02-01

In "The Place of Dead Roads," the second volume of the "Cities of the Red Night" trilogy, Burroughs continues his scathing deconstruction of Western society, making a murderously funny mockery of hypocrisy and hum-drum normality. Written with a practiced mix of anger and nostalgia, "The Place of Dead Roads" is like a prison confession written in some other dimension, a rollicking synthesis of Burroughs tropes old and new. Join Kim Carsons on his nightmare quest to rid the planet of its addictions: it's a surreal and haunting literary journey, the last 100 pages of which witness Burroughs at his visionary best.

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BORN IN FIRE
Maggie Concannon is a glassmaker whose exquisite works are more than mere objects of beauty: they are reflections of her own true nature. One man has seen the soul in her art, and vows to help this complex woman build a lucrative career.

When gallery owner Rogan Sweeney comes to Maggie's isolated studio, her heart is enflamed by their fierce attraction - and her scarred past is slowly healed by a gentle and forgiving love.

BORN IN ICE
When the harsh storms of winter descend upon western Ireland, the locals stay indoors - and visitors stay away. Brianna Concannon's bed-and-breakfast becomes a cold and empty place. And that's fine with Brianna. She enjoys the peace and quiet, even when icy winds howl at her window.

This year, though, she's expecting an unusual guest - mystery writer Grayson Thane - from America. A restless wanderer with a dark past, he plans to spend the cold winter alone. Yet sometimes fate has a plan of its own. Sometimes a fire can be born in ice . . .

BORN IN SHAME
Shannon Bodine is a talented graphic artist whose life revolves around her job at a prestigious New York advertising agency. Her world is turned upside down when she learns the identity of her real father: Thomas Concannon.

Respecting her late mother's wish, Shannon travels, however reluctantly, to County Clare. There, her loneliness and shame melt away in the embrace of the family she never knew existed. And amid the lush Irish landscape, steeped in mysticism and legend, she discovers the possibility of a love that is meant to be.

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Nora Roberts Born Trilogy.......2005-10-01

Nora Roberts provides a romantic tale of love, passion, family relationships ,
in a story based in Ireland
The trilogy presents three strong and resourseful young women who are connected by a familyl mystery.
Entertaining escape reading. The audio reader is excellent.

Nora Roberts Born In Trilogy CD Collection: Born in Fire, Born in Ice, Born in Shame (Born In Trilogy)

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Nora Roberts Born In Trilogy CD Collection: Born in Fire, Born in Ice, Born in Shame (Born In Trilogy)
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ASIN: 1423331869
Release Date: 2007-10-29

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Born in Fire:
Maggie Concannon is a glassmaker whose exquisite works are more than mere objects of beauty: they are reflections of her own true nature. When gallery owner Rogan Sweeney comes to Maggie's isolated studio, her heart is enflamed by their fierce attraction - and her scarred past is slowly healed by a gentle and forgiving love.

Born in Ice:
When the harsh storms of winter descend upon western Ireland, the locals stay indoors - and visitors stay away. Brianna Concannon's bed-and-breakfast becomes a cold and empty place. This year, though, she's expecting an unusual guest - mystery writer Grayson Thane - from America. A restless wanderer with a dark past, he plans to spend the cold winter alone. Yet sometimes fate has a plan of its own.

Born in Shame:
Shannon Bodine is a talented graphic artist whose life revolves around her job at a prestigious New York advertising agency. Her world is turned upside down when she learns the identity of her real father: Thomas Concannon. Respecting her late mother's wish, Shannon travels to County Clare. There, her loneliness and shame melt away in the embrace of family. And amid the lush Irish landscape, she discovers the possibility of a love that is meant to be.

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On the arid colony of Mars the only thing more precious than water may be a ten-year-old schizophrenic boy named Manfred Steiner. For although the UN has slated "anomalous" children for deportation and destruction, other people--especially Supreme Goodmember Arnie Kott of the Water Worker's union--suspect that Manfred's disorder may be a window into the future. In Martian Time-Slip Philip K. Dick uses power politics and extraterrestrial real estate scams, adultery, and murder to penetrate the mysteries of being and time.

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On the arid colony of Mars the only thing more precious than water may be a ten–year–old schizophrenic boy named Manfred Steiner. For although the UN has slated “anomalous” children for deportation and destruction, other people—especially Supreme Goodmember Arnie Kott of the Water Worker’s union—suspect that Manfred’s disorder may be a window into the future. In Martian Time–Slip Philip K. Dick uses power politics and extraterrestrial real estate scams, adultery, and murder to penetrate the mysteries of being and time.

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Great read, and a little creepy.......2007-09-23

I really enjoyed this one. It slowed down a little in the middle, but after that, it got really good and pretty creepy. I have read Ubik, Flow My Tears, Scanner, and I think this is my favorite one of his books so far. The character of Manfred is especially cool.

Terrible.......2007-09-17

I not a huge reader of science fiction, and the only Dick I've read is The Man in the High Castle. Seeking to remedy this underexposure, I picked up this entry in the "Masterworks" series. Originally written in 1964 (and boy does it feel like it), the story is set amidst struggling human colonies on Mars. There, we meet a whole host of one-dimensional characters -- union boss, electronics repairman, robot teacher, poor native Martians, black marketeer, psychiatrist, and so on. The plot is set in motion by the impending United Nations-led development of the "FDR" mountain range. This sparks a greedy union boss to embark on a harebrained scheme to channel the untapped psychic abilities of schizophrenics in an attempt to see into the future in order to learn which parcels of real-estate are worth speculating on. No, really...

I managed to make through most of this setup, about 1/3 of the way into the book, before giving up. The story moves at a glacial pace, with a ton of plodding discussion of schizophrenia and autism and how they relate. The characters are so flat, the dialogue so mundane, and the plot so banal, that the book feels mainly like Dick's attempt to write his way to understanding schizophrenia. (Dick apparently suffered from mental illness himself.) Not being a mental health professional, I have no idea to what extent the portrayal of schizophrenics or autism is realistic -- but at a certain point I realized that I didn't care about any of the characters and I didn't care about the situation, and so there was little point in continuing. The ideas aren't interesting, the writing is pedestrian at best, and it's hard to imagine Dick being capable of worse.

Tons of insight into Dick but experimental excuse for story........2005-03-02

Next to reading "The Man in the High Castle", I was prepared to read something as deep and as drawn out as that Hugo winning quasi-science-fiction novel from the same author. "Martian Time-Slip" is described as being similar in nature to that style of writing. I also discovered "Clans of the Alphane Moon", "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" (Blade Runner), "Ubik" and "The Simulacra", all of which are 5 star reads, "Martian-Time Slip" comes highly recommended because it is in the top twenty science-fiction books, Orion Publishers and the SF Masterworks series listing it as #13 in their collection. Unfortunately I was surprised by how little I enjoyed any of it and in fact I hated a lot of it, however the author should be credited and published for creating this world, but as for reading it... well that is a totally different matter. This is an oddity, more for collectors than readers. I am glad to have it in my Philip K. Dick collection.... However, it is at the back of his collection.

Mars is populated by settlers from Earth, starting a new world there, with Bleekmen Martians, like primitive man, selling trinkets to earthlings, who mostly need clean water, which is owned by the waterworks manager, Arnie Kott, who has acquired a former mentally ill repairman, Jack Bohlen, to plug into the mind of an autistic boy, Manfred, who might be able to see the future and tell him why the UN wants to buy in on Mars soil. Jack's father arrives from Earth, turns out to be a prospector and Jack ends up double-crossing Kott, over and over again in alterative universes, until he figures what is going on and by that stage you just don't care because there is no ending, there is no science-fiction, the politics and extraterrestrial real estate scams became moot long ago, the penetration of the mysteries of being and time totally abstract to the point of meaninglessness anywhere else except in Dick's mind, then we get his over-excuse for adultery neatly wrapped in a package "Sleep with other people so that you get to know what your spouse is doing right and wrong", Dick who happens to have been married five times, really doesn't come across as that faithful to his characters and his alter-ego chews through them, mostly sexually, and quite disturbingly, ending up in a Dick book that doesn't quite have the same panache as anything I have read from him before.

Even though "Martian Time-Slip" puts forward some very interesting notions that make you think ah, here it comes, the plot or the twist, it never really does. Instead you end up with an extended soap opera on Mars, not that this is a bad idea, Dick writes good soap into his science-fiction ("Clans of the Alphane Moon" does it well), but the soap here pretty much envelops any science-fiction under all the smut and suds that come out of nowhere around page 100 and continue to dominate the later half of the book with the theories discussed in pages 70 to 100, never going anywhere, after the huge 70 page opening, yes many of you will be wasting your time, characters are introduced far too slowly, jacked around half way through the story and replaced by new characters towards the end, meaning what you have covered so far has been lost to the warping and bending of time in the story, unfortunately not working out as a good read, but maybe as good writing, and certainly Philip K. Dick can not be faulted for his literature skills, dialogue or introduction of descriptions that should have occurred towards the start of the book, we don't mind all of this, but the story thus is boring, without centre and does not deliver on a payoff like the last two or three pages of "The Man in the High Castle." It isn't like that work at all. This is a self-serving science fiction rant to explain the author's own problems with mental health and infidelity.

As many of you know Dick can be more suggestive than fleshing out those suggestions. Here he makes a suggestion that quite frankly we are not in the least bit interested in because of the way he puts it forward, that some people's mental illness can be confused with people who really have special talents, but the story boxes this concept into replaying a scene a couple of times over again in variation each time, the Martian Time-Slip explained by changes in people's perceptions, this concept comes up in the middle of the book, then takes a back seat to more suds and soap about adultery... and never emerges again. I am glad to be free of this book. That is not a good sign.

It hurts me to say this but... "Martian Time-Slip" stinks. Only get it to see into the mind of a science-fiction writer beginning to question the depths of the mind and reasons for his own unfaithfulness. If you want to learn more about Dick through his work, then certainly this has lots of insight, but the story, not even close to what he is capable of doing.

I am going to move onto "A Scanner Darkly" next. Hopefully that will go a bit better than this one did. Five stars all the way and then this bumpy ride. Only get this Philip K. Dick if you have read everything else. Comes nowhere even close to #13 place that Orion SF Masterworks gave it.

Twenty-first century schizoid boy.......2004-06-07

In this major novel, first published in 1964, Dick effectively utilizes multifocal viewpoints to comment on the nature of the schizophrenic experience and its implications for our evaluation of "normal" experience. The precognitive schizophrenic boy, Manfred Steiner, into whose mind the narrative sometimes strays, sees the world as entropic, in continual decline, as the horrifying spirit of the Gubbler pervades everything, reducing all communication to meaningless "gubble" and all life to dust and rot. Schizophrenia is seen here as a horror in which the dark shadowy fears and inner demons are let loose into the day world of ordinary consciousness. Manfred innocently projects his deranged vision so powerfully on others that they begin to see things the way he does, causing one main character's time-sense to become non-chronological. It seems to have the power of a pervasive, infectious disease in this novel, replicating itself throughout the fabric of society. It is interesting to read this in contrast with another sixties book about the schizophrenic experience, R. D. Laing's The Politics of Experience (1967. Dick hardly soft-pedals the horrific aspects of the disorder, but like Laing also plays with the possibility that the psychotic may sometimes glimpse reality more fully than "normal" people can.

Martian Time Slip: The Forbidden Future.......2004-02-16

This is a near-masterpiece about schizophrenia and society in the US in the 1950s, although it takes place on a sparsely populated Mars run by the UN, a desert world traversed by helicopters and inhabited most successfuly by indigenous blacks and the Arabs and the Jews of New Israel. Jack Bohlen, like the younger P.K.Dick, is a repairman of audio devices such as the anachronistically reel-to-reel tape-based encoding machine used by his eventual boss, the irrepressible but irresponsible Arnie Kott, the leader--the Supereme Goodmember--of the Water Worker's Union on Mars. Kott is a big fish in a small pond, and his beautiful red-headed girlfriend is easily as interested in Jack, who is married, with a normal child, as she is in her big spender boss. There are at least two main problems: 1) they live on Mars, an essentially lonely red desert of frontier survival, despite its indigenous population of Aborigine-like "Bleekmen" and 2) schizophrenia is beginning to transmit laterally, like a contagion rather than a genetic disease. This second problem is compounded by the potential usefulness of the afflicted, especially a boy named Manfred Steiner, whose father commits suicide early on, leaving Jack's wife, the phenobarbital-popping Silvia, to care for the healthy children. Hard-drinking cut throat businessman Kott, who likes to waste water in steam baths on a planet where scotch is cheaper than beer because it contains less water, realizes that the mentally ill on this small planet have real clairvoyant powers. Without going into too much plot detail, there is much of interest here. It has been said that the greatest windfall of the space program is that it allowed us to look back and really see ourselves for the first time. Dick's Mars here is a transported microcosm, with Bleekman as the indigenous people whose valuable civilizations have been temporarily trampled, their human reservoirs of knowledge insulted and enslaved. The sexism, suburban isolation, and prescribed drug use of the fifties has also landed undamaged on the red planet. The faith in American psychiatry is subtly spoofed as for example when the red planet's most highly regarded therapist (therapists on Mars stand in for agoraphobics, accomplishing their worldly affairs), the essentially petty Milton Glaub, diagnoses Kott as someone with an "oral, sucking problem." More to the point, schizophrenia itself, of which P.K.D. is thought to have had a (pharmaceutically enhanced) touch, is wonderfully described, both "internally" via the points of view of Jack and Manfred (and later, Arnie, the last one you would expect to be afflicted) and "externally" with reference to Swiss theorists who analyze it as essentially a disturbance in the time sense. In this connection there is much talk of "gub" and "gubbish"-stand-in words for the schizophrenic's sense of dissolution, of a lack of meaning and the eventual entropic deconstruction of all presently held valuable. The gub words, which emanate at one point even from the mechanical teaching robots (e.g., Mark Twain) at the local public school, alert us that clairvoyant Steiner's schizophrenia is potentiating Bohlen's latent affliction. When Bohlen's father comes to the UN planet to put a down payment on land that will be used for emigrants, Arnie Kott is angry and scooped because he can see that his mafia-like control is coming to an end. Yet Jack's realtor father is also upset because the Steiner boy can look still further to see the demise of the housing complex that will contain the emigrants and enrich the land developers. Indeed, the Steiner boy, along with we ourselves, can eventually project into a future that "jubs" us all. Here jub joins with "kipple" in Dick's special lexicon of entropy-related words: jub is a mental version, in a way, of kipple, Dick's term for household clutter, gum wrappers and old newspapers and the like. "Ich liebe die Unwissenheit um die Zukunft" wrote Nietzsche: "I love not knowing the future." Dick's schizophrenic seers here are afflicted by the weight of knowing too much, one of the great themes of human introspection-even in the Bible where it is a weight which makes the first couple plummet to Earth after Eve eats the forbidden apple. This is not "hard science fiction"--the origins of the Bleekmen and the breathability of the atmosphere are never addressed--but it is emotionally rivetting.

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Compelling Book

Martian Time-Slip and The Golden Man
Philip K. Dick
Manufacturer: Blackstone Audio Inc.
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Martian Time-Slip

On the arid colony of Mars, the only thing more precious than water may be a ten-year-old schizophrenic boy named Manfred Steiner. Although the UN has slated "anomalous" children for deportation and destruction, some suspect that Manfred's disorder may be a window into the future. But what sort of future? In Martian Time-Slip, Dick uses power politics and extraterrestrial real-estate scams, adultery, and murder to penetrate the mysteries of being and time.

The Golden Man

In the post-nuclear America, monstrous mutants roam freely. A government agency, the DCA, is formed to rid the world of mutants. But there is one of the new species that is not a monster: eighteen year old Cris Johnson. He is a perfect specimen of young manhood, an icon of masculine beauty. He is the golden man. But the DCA's fear that he might mate and produce a new race of golden men with survival skills far superior to ordinary men makes his destruction paramount.

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Compelling Book.......2007-07-11

This was my first read of a Philip K. Dick book. Dick was a prolific writer of Science Fiction writing 30+ books over his life.

This book (Martian Time-Slip) reminded me of Bradbury's Martian Chronicles in the way human society on Mars carried on its same practices of bigotry, greed, betrayal and other human foibles. Another grand experiment seemingly doomed.

Where this book really shined was in Dick's description of a schizophrenic and what goes on in their mind. Dick used an interesting writing method in one place to show a particular scene from the perspective of two characters with normal minds, one autistic child, an aboriginal Martian, and a schizophrenic. The method, though originally a little annoying in the beginning was very effective in creating a window to understanding and experiencing how a schizophrenic feels.

The reader of this book does a good job of creating the speech rhythm and sound of someone from the 60's and handles the various voices quite well. I liked him very much and will seek other books he might have read.

The Golden Man is a short story that is interesting, amusing, and a little disturbing. It is about a time on earth after some type of horrific war where many human mutations have been born with the world policy to destroy all the mutations before they can reproduce. The story focus is about a boy/man of 18 who cannot speak but is tall, golden, muscular - basically a perfect physical specimen, but cannot communicate verbally and sees the world from a different time perspective than normal humans. Obviously, woman find him irresistible and men see him as the ultimate danger.

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Reality, Madness, Time, Life, Death, and More

Martian Time-slip

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Reality, Madness, Time, Life, Death, and More.......2005-02-17

In Martain Time-Slip, PKD deals with communication (as a counterpart to schizophrenia), time/death/life, empathy, sin and salvation, reality and madness, and the idea that the seperation of sanity and insanity is by degrees - they are not wholly distinct. As usual, PKD's vision for the story takes on a much broader scope than the reader may be expecting. The storyline is both highly complicated (PKD always likes to blur reality and illusion) and highly fascinating. There is a general complaint among some people that his endings are normally inconclusive. In the last two books I've read, I haven't got this feeling at all, but I am not sure if this is because I am becoming more familiar with his writing and thus am looking for endings that are more thematically conclusive than physically, or if these endings are just more concrete. I tend to think it's the former. Besides, how can you expect a conventional ending in such an unconventional book?

I've read 10 of his books, and found this to be one of the better ones. PKD is a master at taking our minds on rides we were not expecting, to places we never expected, and this book is no exception.

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Martian Time Slip
Philip K Dick
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Philip K Dick
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Martian Time Slip 1ST Edition U2191
Philip K Dick
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Martian Time Slip U2191
Philip K. Dick
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Philip K Dick
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Martian Time-Slip
Philip K. DICK
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Deliverance of information rather vague

Like most of the author's work....worth reading.

It cleared my channels

High hopes disappointed

Explosive

The Crone: Woman of Age, Wisdom, and Power
Barbara G. Walker
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A probing account of the honored place of older women in ancient matriarchal societies restores to contemporary women an energizing symbol of self-value, power, and respect.

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Deliverance of information rather vague.......2006-01-07

(Written by Ms. LeClair's daughter,Parissa Shareghi, high school student)
Insightful in most of the analyzations, however I agree with the idea that the bibliography in the back of the book does not account for the fashion in which Ms. Walker states her research as unyielding facts. There is a balance to be sought here. For a woman to be as equally empowered she must recognize her historical role through the formation of patriarchy and how to use her innate sense to live for herself and whatever may spring forth from her. Ms. Walker may be continuing a sense of helplessness, perhaps by vague descriptions of the obliteration of the images of woman. This could not have happened without partipation of women, abused or not. If woman is equal as she most undeniably is, she must analyze her part, because it is a 50-50 mutual situation involving men and women. Change lies in organization to rise parallel from a patriarchy in my opinion.

Like most of the author's work....worth reading........2002-03-21

But again, one grows tired of the tirade against men, Christianity, all things NOT feminine. She makes a good case for some things but you wonder if you can believe her or not because she is so embittered. I was glad I bought it, as I have been with all her books. The lady certainly doesn't lack for passion about her subject matter!

It cleared my channels.......2000-12-17

I read this book into the wee hours of the morning because it was connecting the dots in so many ways. All the mythological names I had studied in high school and at the university were re-visited in her text and explained. She makes a very convincing case for how many female goddesses and especially, the trinities, were co-opted by the Christian theology. She takes a stab at Buddhism as well for being a religion of solipsism. The screed at the beginning, while accurate in my mind, may turn off some readers. I know it made me feel depressed and that there would be nothing new told here. But if you keep going you will be rewarded many times over. Walker's scholarship and analysis of myths and their re-working to non-pagan beliefs is excellent. Anyone reading this can approach it as a work of scholarship.

High hopes disappointed.......2000-08-13

As a teacher of mythology, I was delighted when I first discovered this book. Reading it, however, was a disappointment. The author's embittered tirad against men quickly wears thin and leaves you longing for a more accurate and less obviously distorted exploration of this important subject. While the author is to be commended for drawing our attention to the crone's vital role in society, I hope this book will inspire a feminist with less of an ax to grind to write a more accurate and psychologically profound account of the crone.

Explosive.......2000-06-20

Every paragraph in this book is a bombshell revelation, written with passion and scholarly authority. It is a wellspring of inspiration and history for women -- history we have been denied about our own heritage. The book had enormous influence on me as a feminist. It is stunning in its intensity and scope. I wish everyone in the world would read it, although it would probably make the blood of traditionalist people boil. It contains explosive challenges to the patriarchal status quo, and particularly to patriarchal religions. There is much fuel for debate here. Strongly recommended!

The Crone:Woman of Age, Wisdom, and Power

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Barbara G. Walker
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The Crone - Woman of Age, Wisdom, & Power

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Barbara G. Walker
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