September 2, 2012

Journey To Ixtlan: The Lessons of Don Juan - by: Carlos Castaneda (1972)

Hailed as Castaneda's best book, but I didn't think so. It wasn't bad, but not as good as I'd hoped it would be. Pretty dry, actually. It now sits unread by other inmates on the FDC book cart. I used to think Don Juan was a real person, after this read, I doubt it. The events are way too contrived to be real at all, much more so than I remember in Castaneda's other books.

Magic and Mystery in Tibet - by: Alexandra David-Neel (1932, 2014)

This is one of those rare books that exposes another culture in a way that really opens it up an lets the reader glimpse for themselves what...