danegarcia

I read this book twice before I was 20 years old, and I think that might be the best time to read it. It turned me on to a lot of other writers and historical figures I might never have sought out on my own, and the experience he talks about throughout the book is something that probably freaks out a lot of people, usually young adults, when it happens to them, which isn't often at all, but when it does, it is such a relief to know you're not alone, and a lot of people much more intelligent, insightful, and creative than we'll ever be wrote some really great things about it, including Colin Wilson himself, who never seemed able to come up with another book as good as this one. Though the space vampires movie was awesome! Update 12 August 2013: I just finished this book for the fourth time, I think, I read it a couple times when I was a teenager, once again in my twenties, and now once again in my mid thirties, and I still think it's a super amazing book. I actually don't agree with it now nearly as much as I did when I was younger, and I can sense more of Colin Wilson's personality seeping through the text than I did in the past, but it's still one of the best books ever written for what it's trying to do, and I'd still recommend it to everyone who ever just, you know, sometimes looks at a tree and suddenly gets terrified by the tree's existence. Man, you are not alone.

2022-11-14 13:56