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Summary: more catholic right-wing extremism
Review: The title leads you to to believe the book will be a survey of horror books and films. Instead, it's an ultra-consevative political rant that refers to specific horror works only occasionally in order to score dubious points. The author hijacks Stephen King's insight, "the horror story is as conservative as an Illinois Republican in a three-piece suit", and proceeds to hammer his themes over and over: sex=death, everything was better before the 16th century, a group called the Illuminati is plotting to take over the world. Avoid at all costs.
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Summary: Don't Be Fooled By The Title
Review: The title leads you to to believe the book will be a survey of horror books and films. Instead, it's an ultra-consevative political rant that refers to specific horror works only occasionally in order to score dubious points. The author hijacks Stephen King's insight, "the horror story is as conservative as an Illinois Republican in a three-piece suit", and proceeds to hammer his themes over and over: sex=death, everything was better before the 16th century, a group called the Illuminati is plotting to take over the world. Avoid at all costs.
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Summary: An excellent examination of Culture
Review: This is one of the better books that I have read in quite some time. E. Micheal Jones examines horror books and films focusing more specifically on Frankenstien, Dracula, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and the Aliens films among others. He examines what drives people to write or make books/films of this nature. He supports his conclusions with concise information that is easy to understand. The book was so good that I was dissapointed when it was over. It is hard to debate his conclusions, but it will be shocking when you agree with him because it makes you evaluate what you believe, and what you are allowing yourself to watch and read. This is a book that I would highly recommend to anyone.
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Summary: An excellent examination of Culture
Review: This is one of the better books that I have read in quite some time. E. Micheal Jones examines horror books and films focusing more specifically on Frankenstien, Dracula, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and the Aliens films among others. He examines what drives people to write or make books/films of this nature. He supports his conclusions with concise information that is easy to understand. The book was so good that I was dissapointed when it was over. It is hard to debate his conclusions, but it will be shocking when you agree with him because it makes you evaluate what you believe, and what you are allowing yourself to watch and read. This is a book that I would highly recommend to anyone.
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Summary: extremism-r-us
Review: This review is meant to reinforce R.W. Rasband's: unless you're a member of the extreme right-wing of the Roman Catholic Church, this book's not for you (and not what it appears to be).
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Summary: Yes, it is about sex
Review: Up to about 1970, most folks outside Catholicism accused Catholic priests of obsessing about sex, and preaching only about that (and money). Since then, the culture has so cowed priests that sex is the one thing they never preach about.Jones, who I admit is a friend of mine, has done a fine job of distilling the theories he developed in LIBIDO DOMINANDI to about one-third the length of that book, and focusing his attention quite well on the horror genre, both in book and film. Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker and the modern producers of horror films, according to Jones, are all actors in a long-running play about the Enlightenment's misreading and misuse of sex. Repress the moral and it comes back as a monster. You'll particularly get involved in what he has to say about Dracula and Alien. Inexplicably, he omits his more recent research about the much-ignored film Mimic. Then, again, this book was first announced about four years ago.
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Summary: Yes, it is about sex
Review: Up to about 1970, most folks outside Catholicism accused Catholic priests of obsessing about sex, and preaching only about that (and money). Since then, the culture has so cowed priests that sex is the one thing they never preach about. Jones, who I admit is a friend of mine, has done a fine job of distilling the theories he developed in LIBIDO DOMINANDI to about one-third the length of that book, and focusing his attention quite well on the horror genre, both in book and film. Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker and the modern producers of horror films, according to Jones, are all actors in a long-running play about the Enlightenment's misreading and misuse of sex. Repress the moral and it comes back as a monster. You'll particularly get involved in what he has to say about Dracula and Alien. Inexplicably, he omits his more recent research about the much-ignored film Mimic. Then, again, this book was first announced about four years ago.
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