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The Secret Life of Puppets
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Rating: 4.4/5 from 5 reviews Heavy reading, but interestingThis is a clinical look at cults and religions, but is VERY heavy reading. Not a light and fluffy book that you can flip through...or would want to. Great subject!Nice way to connect wide range of topics. It has a typographical error or two, but it's a very good read. Spins a common thread through esoteric interestsIf you have bookshelves at home covering sci-fi/fantasy/horror, mythology, AI, psychology, alchemy, animation, and semiotics, and know them only as "things I'm interested in" without being aware of any other common thread, Victoria Nelson just might convince you that you are interested in those things for the same reason she is, and that people throughout history have been: you are mapping a geography of human imagination, taking a journey that you can't help but pursue. Although the book is structured as a history of ideas, there's an autobiography being told, too, about a precocious, sensitive kid fleeing grad school to Hawaii (just as I did) only to return years later "to finish the PhD thesis I never wrote". Along the way, you'd find many great books and films you may never have heard of. | ||||||||||||||||||||
