This is really the book to start with if you are interested in the Art of Memory. I read it ages ago, and I do not remember it being a particularly easy read. I was frustrated that the reader was expected to know so many languages---but it is a book written for a scholastic crowd. If you want to try to understand Giordano Bruno, the power of imagination, and the critical role that mnemonic arts played in history, this is where you've gotta start.
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Reverend Erik commented on The practical art of divine magic by Patrick Dunn
Like all of Patrick Dunn's books, this one is filled with amazing ideas. I started reading it two years ago and haven't finished yet, apparently.
Review of 'Three Books of Occult Philosophy' on 'LibraryThing'
5 stars
This is a very amazing new translation into English; one of the first in over 350 years. The translation is great, the books are gorgeous, and the translator is to be commended.
Reverend Erik rated The mystery men of Mars: 3 stars
C. H. Claudy: The mystery men of Mars (1933, Grosset & Dunlap)
The mystery men of Mars by C. H. Claudy (His Adventures in the unknown)
Reverend Erik rated A thousand years a minute: 3 stars
C. H. Claudy: A thousand years a minute (1933, Grosset & Dunlap)
A thousand years a minute by C. H. Claudy (His Adventures in the unknown)
Reverend Erik rated Parasyte, Volume 1: 5 stars
Reverend Erik rated How to Write a Sentence and How to Read One: 4 stars
How to Write a Sentence and How to Read One by Stanley Fish
Some appreciate fine art; others appreciate fine wines. Stanley Fish appreciates fine sentences. The New York Times columnist and world-class …
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (Millennium, #3) by Stieg Larsson (The Millennium Trilogy, #3)
Lisbeth Salander—the heart of Larsson’s two previous novels—lies in critical condition, a bullet wound to her head, in the intensive …
Reverend Erik rated Adventures of the Stainless Steel Rat: 5 stars
Adventures of the Stainless Steel Rat by Harry Harrison
Compilation of the first three Stainless Steel Rat books.
The Stainless Steel Rat DiGriz is caught during one of his …
Reverend Erik rated Teas & tisanes: 3 stars
Teas & tisanes by Jill Norman (The Bantam library of culinary arts)
Reverend Erik rated The Masonic Myth: 4 stars
The Masonic Myth by Jay Kinney
The Masonic Myth by Jay Kinney is an accessible and fascinating history of the Freemasons that sheds new light on …