The Magic of Shapeshifting

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Summary: If you can't believe werewolves are real, don't read it
Review: This isn't for Anne Rice fans or goths or role-players, this is for people who seriously believe in werewolves and want to know all the details, and it is really, really good. This is everything that a book like this could be, it tells you everything, and it explains how these things work.
I see lots of whining reviews from people who don't believe in werewolves. Well, this is the whole point of this book. If you don't think werewolves are real, then don't read it. Or if you think they are real but that it's just some kind of wishy-washy symbolic thing where you worship wolves on the full moon but never really transform, then of course you won't like this book.
This book is for people who know, who believe. It tells exactly how it is for REAL werewolves (which I have seen, so I do believe). Apparently, the author has made some enemies among those cults of wishy-washy half-werewolves who hang out online and tell you that werewolves aren't real because they are werewolves, yet who use this book anyway and try to pretend this book is ripping off every belief they have that happens to be the same, and at the same time attack this book for every idea it has that differs from theirs. Either you do believe or you don't. There shouldn't be a halfway point that is worse even than the science skeptics.
This book gets everything right, except for one or two points that the author doesn't seem too sure about anyway. This author was interviewing REAL werewolves, not clubbers or goths. If you want to know about REAL werewolves, you have to get away from fads and stop mooning over Anne Rice novels and study stuff like ectoplasm and the goblin universe. Where do you think bigfoot came from, huh?

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Summary: great book!!!
Review: Well this book has some great info on shifters, and true it's does critize alittle. You can get past opinions in. It does have some good techs and ideas. Also if a author choose not to respond that is their choice. On male bashing issue,I hate to drop this, but I can name 8 books out there that are bias against women in pagan community that do the same. Bias is bad either way for either sex, and I am female surprise ,and For some this a good place for them to start and some people also forget not everyone has a pc most do but not all, and online people can say anything just as books do.I have read twice and the book had some of stuff that made sense to me thou more details would have been nice and helful for those who are beginng to understand.
My point is book has good ideas and flaws as with any book ever written. Overall I do say the book is worth it for references. I would have added alittle more on other shifters and as for bias issue i just ingore it. Still a good book and first of it's kind. The key to ingore a bias in a book and read it for yourself. Decide what to use what out of the book seems right and if ya want more infomation on a topic then look for other sources. I am wolf shifter myself and i wish more people would at least try to write more about it. She seems to have some firm knowledge on shiftering and at least someone wrote about it. I would buy this book for many reasons but big one is to understand ones self which does point people in right direction.Enjoy it and to understand one self is not a easy task and this book give a start on a long journey...