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Title: Nothing in This Book Is True, But It's Exactly How Things Are
ISBN: 1583940677
Author:
Bob Frissell
Publicate Date: 2002-11-18
Publish: 2002-11-18
List Price: $16.95
Average Customer Rating: 3.5
Format: Paperback
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1: Make the decision yourself
Honestly after reading many of the reviews placed on this book I would suggest you read it and make your own conclusions. I just finished it as of today and decided it was well worth the visit to write a review regarding this book of spiritual and esoteric thought. If you consider yourself an open minded individual who seeks perhaps the basic knowledge of Sacred Geometry or mysteries of initiation regarding the left eye of Horus, take a dive, It's well worth the adventurous journey. Like some reviewers posted, you have to take a lot with a grain of salt and many of his statements do come across as truth or half-truths.
In the end, I enjoyed this book immensely and would recommend it to the like minded individual.
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2: First Half = I can't put it down.......Last Half = I can't pick it up.
This book was very interesting to me well before I even opened the cover. As I began to read the outlandish theories in the book, my mind seemed to open and receive never before thought of possibilities. It was a whirl-wind of "what if's?" and "Could that be possible's".
As I continued along, I began to feel like I was reading the Bible. But, only in the sense that I got lost in all the cosmic events and bizarre names and connections to the main plot. This lead to a disintegration in my level of interest. I have ALWAYS been open to wacky theories and metaphysical concepts, but this book got a little carried away with itself. In a sense, it takes itself WAY too seriously. What started as a fun, possible explanation for every theory and conspiracy ever, devolved into a maniacal raving, much like one would expect from the lips of the mentally unstable. And to make matters worse, I completely lost interest.
It may seem like I'm only bashing the book. However, consider this. If you start eating a meal, a delicious meal, and half way through you realize you've had WAY too much of it, do you not later tell your friends that lunch was just OK? I'm only doing the same. The book was really interesting, but too full of itself to hold my interest.
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3: Something in this book...may be true...?
To most people this book would come across as absurd, and to others it would become a bible. I really think though, that one should approach this middle-of-the-road style, perhaps leaning toward the former.
The cartoonish way this book is written and the outlandish claims it makes sem to discredit it at face value, but there is a small snack for thought buried somewhere inside it, and I think it's a helpful book if one is trying to gain a wide perspective about the various strains of esoterica, including the slightly paranoid, fantastic ones .
The book exagerrates details which can be picked up in more reputable titles, and as such it's not complete rubbish. When I read it, at first I was drawn deep into it's little conspiracy matrix and actually wondered why agents of the illuminati weren't swooping down upon me to confiscate it and have me curb-stomped. Then disbelief and dissapointment set in, but months later one usually finds a string of phrase or paragraph of information somewhere that validates a bit of the book, and that's where its worth lies. Again I say a bit of the book, because believed completely this series could turn one into a lunatic. My advice is to find a bookstore that carries it, and read the whole thing there, or pick it up used. Just don't shell out fifteen bucks, and don't expect miracles.
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4: Snore
Nothing in this book is true but it is a comprehensive new age/rebirthing/early 90's generic unified theory of kookiness. The reason this book seems original is because Bob did combine a lot of strange information here, but didn't add much to the mix. Is NASA hiding things on Mars? I think so. Is there a devious secret government? Yes, but you'll find a lot more accurate info elsewhere on these subjects. I recommend Bob's companion volume Something in This Book is True instead of this because it has a much more personal touch and at least Something true.
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5: IT'S HARDLY RECOMMENDED TO ME!!
But I really would like to read it in Spanish, I heard that it's a great book, there somethings that I read and I understand, But it will be better if I can find it in Spanish
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