July 21, 2010
Book Review: Ancient Mysteries
Ancient Mysteries by Peter James and Nick Thorpe. Published by Ballantine Books, 1998
ISBN 0-345-40195-6
CB311.J385
Ancient Mysteries – "The unsolved puzzles of lost civilizations and knowledge; the inexplicable monuments and earthworks built by the ancients; the strange messages conveyed by the world's great legends; the riddles of early exploration; and even apparent evidence of extraterrestrial and paranormal phenomena of ancient times"
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October 30, 2009
Book Review: The Complete Approach
The Complete Approach: A Scientific and Metaphysical Guide To The Paranormal is the opposite of Seeking Spirits. Where Spirits is professional and too slick for its own good, The Complete Approach is earnest and personal. Jay and Grant's book focuses on anecdote; Dustin Pari and Barry Fitzgerald's work tries to give us nothing less than the theoretical underpinnings of their ghost hunting practice– the hows and whys of their paranormal career. It's apparent that they wrote this themselves and published it in a small press out of their own personal passion for the subject. It is an extremely heartfelt work.
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October 18, 2009
Book Review: Seeking Spirits
by Stephen
(Note: THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS.)
At their opening lecture at DragonCon, Jay and Grant hinted that their new book, Seeking Spirits, would detail their adventures doing battle with the forces of evil on behalf of various churches. That's not the book we have here, though. Instead, Seeking Spirits serves us up kind of a sequel to their early chapters from the last book, Ghost Hunting. They recount more tales from the early career of TAPS, from a ghostly white cat in 1994 to a recounting of the famous "lost" possession episode of "Ghost Hunters" in 2004.
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