I started off this year by actually reading a book, it was Gavin Baddeley’s Lucifer Rising which is named after the Kenneth Anger movie of the same name. I read this after I read the stellar book Lords of Chaos: The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground by Michael Moynihan. If you’re looking at getting either, don’t bother with Baddeley’s book, it’s just not worth a read.
Then I started reading Three Books of Occult Philosophy by HC Agrippa and I had to stop due to the text alone. It’s just hard to read. Not hard to comprehend by any means, it’s just physically hard to read a book that was written in 1630. I will pick it up again this year I’m sure.
This week I received The Devil: Perceptions of Evil from Antiquity to Primitive Christianity. I’m only two chapters deep but I’m waiting for Russell to actually get to discussing “The Devil” and evil. So far it’s been what evil means to him “historically” and what a concept is (yes, he explains what concepts are for an entire chapter) and I’m ready to put this book up on the shelf already. I’ve heard that it’s a decent book but so far, I can’t see why or how it would be. I really hope I didn’t waste some money on what could be a pretty interesting read.
Today I received notice from Amazon that my pre-order copy of The Canon: A Whirlgig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science will be shipping earlier than expected! Woo! Early reviews are good for Natalie Angier’s newest book and I’m no stranger to science but it gets me giddy to get a book about it that I’m not required to read!
I’ve got more books on order that I’m eager to read but I have to plow through these others before I can undertake anything else interesting!
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