Starting to keep track again
I guess its because of my research wikis that I figured I better also keep up with documenting my "fun" reads, so here goes.
Just tonight, I finished Donna Kossy's Strange Creations--Aberrant Ideas of Human Origins from Ancient Astronauts to Aquatic Apes.
It was odd but interesting. The section on Eugenics didn't really fit in with the rest of the book--it would have if it had been fit in under the Ancient Astronauts section. Why didn't it fit? Because that section (along with the Heaven's Gate section) was more about what certain segments of the population believe must be done to save the future--and the book was supposed to be focused on the past, or beginnings, of mankind. There may have been some editing and scaling down involved, but I noticed in sections, Kossy uses judgment calls without explaining why she arrived at her position. One such area was in her damning of von Daniken's assumptions of proof of ancient astronauts. Because there are other times that she explains her viewpoints by pulling out textual examples, I wonder if some things weren't just cut for length's sake. However, it did jump out at me.
Before this, I read Haunted Places of the South (can't remember the author). While most of the book now utterly escapes me, I enjoyed it while I read it and now know of some spots here in Mississippi as well as in Louisiana and Alabama that maybe I could visit and do a little "ghost hunting" myself. One of the spookiest parts for me was the writeup about Shiloh in Tennessee. It reinforced an experience I had as a child when we visited. Maybe it all wasn't my imagination, since I was 5 at the time and hadn't heard of Shiloh, much less the folklore about the place.
I've also just finished reading "I, Avatar" but the writeup for that is in my Higher SLeducation research wiki.
Just tonight, I finished Donna Kossy's Strange Creations--Aberrant Ideas of Human Origins from Ancient Astronauts to Aquatic Apes.
It was odd but interesting. The section on Eugenics didn't really fit in with the rest of the book--it would have if it had been fit in under the Ancient Astronauts section. Why didn't it fit? Because that section (along with the Heaven's Gate section) was more about what certain segments of the population believe must be done to save the future--and the book was supposed to be focused on the past, or beginnings, of mankind. There may have been some editing and scaling down involved, but I noticed in sections, Kossy uses judgment calls without explaining why she arrived at her position. One such area was in her damning of von Daniken's assumptions of proof of ancient astronauts. Because there are other times that she explains her viewpoints by pulling out textual examples, I wonder if some things weren't just cut for length's sake. However, it did jump out at me.
Before this, I read Haunted Places of the South (can't remember the author). While most of the book now utterly escapes me, I enjoyed it while I read it and now know of some spots here in Mississippi as well as in Louisiana and Alabama that maybe I could visit and do a little "ghost hunting" myself. One of the spookiest parts for me was the writeup about Shiloh in Tennessee. It reinforced an experience I had as a child when we visited. Maybe it all wasn't my imagination, since I was 5 at the time and hadn't heard of Shiloh, much less the folklore about the place.
I've also just finished reading "I, Avatar" but the writeup for that is in my Higher SLeducation research wiki.
posted by Stash @ 7:00 PM
