A Voyage to Arcturus (Bison Frontiers of Imagination Series)

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Summary: Great book, terrible edition
Review: This is an excellent book, one I have read many times. Five stars for the story. Never have I read it in such a garbled edition, though. Zero stars to Bison Books. Chapter one (which was as far as I got) contained ten typos, some actually changing the meaning of what was going on ("turned and confronted the party" becomes "turned and _comforted_ the party".) If you haven't read Arcturus, you'll just be confused by textual errors in what is already a demanding book. Nice cover, though.

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Summary: A grand gnostic allegory
Review: This is Lindsay's masterpiece, a visionary work of the religious imagination that reads like a Gnostic "Pilgrim's Progress," with the hero, Maskull, progressing through various stages of human belief and error (philosophical, Theosophical, neo-Nietzschean, you name it)in his trek across the world of Tormance. Lindsay's sense of acosmic dualism, Good and Evil fighting for Man's soul, is at times almost Manichaean in its intensity. Harold Bloom's 1979 novel "A Flight to Lucifer" is a direct lift of Lindsay's earlier work, a sort of pale academic misprision of the luminous original. Read them both and see for yourself the difference between a Surtur and a Shaping!

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Summary: I knew right away I'd gotten my hands on something good, too
Review: Too good for a youngster likely and a teacher might take it away. Not that it was sexy, or subversive, or addictive or anti anything. But I knew it was seductive, it was taking me someplace forbidden by the status quo had they known. This book chose its readers and not everyone would see the veil let alone walk beyond it. I was excited, flattered, scared but I was going to go no matter how far, the more alien the more it felt like going home. It was sweet like fairy food and with the same effect but that was just fine. It had changed me already and I could never really go back. Well the me that came back was not the sane kid everbody thought they knew. I wanted more. I'd find it and if you were the kind I'd show you the book and say' \, "you want to read this, its really special" And I had given you something and waited to see if you were special too. So all I'll say is You do want to read this.

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Summary: The book had many groupies.
Review: We loved it so much that Doris copied it one page at a time to give to Logan. It had a strong cult following in the Toms River/Beachwood area of New Jersey in the early 1980's.

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Summary: Remembered, Not Understood
Review: When I read this book I was only 14-15 years old. Although I did not understand this book compeltely I did realize that there was something magical about it, that he was telling some sort of truth in his work. I've read all these reviews on this page and have decided to read it again. Now that I am 21 perhaps I am ready for everything that this book has to offer. So, for any of you who read this book: make sure to read it again as once will definetely not be enough to get its complete essence. For those of you who haven't read the book: Good luck finding it. If you find somewhere to buy it e-mail me. I'd love a copy of my own.