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Opinions?

>> No.2799494

see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Castaneda
for information about Castaneda.
The books are fascinating and interesting--if you accept them as fiction. The problem is that Castaneda insisted they were real descriptions of real events.

>> No.2799497

>>2799494
yeah, i've finished the book today and i search about it, i know what it is, i'm just asking you a personal opinion about the book.

>> No.2799540

The first three were great. At least, when I read them at 17 they were. The rest of them go downhill.

>> No.2799561

Read it as a 17-year old pothead, was pretty cool. Not as cool as Huxley's Doors of Perception / Heaven and Hell or Wolfe's Acid Test, but still.

>> No.2799588

>>2799494
>The books are fascinating and interesting--if you accept them as fiction.

Just so.

As an occasional hallucinogen user I found the teachings (the first book) pretty interesting, the story was told well and Juan really took on the sagelike aura that Castaneda attempted to portray. I'd never known that datura usage was ritualized before then, it was pretty interesting to read about how it affected Carlos.

>> No.2799590

He's no L. Ron Hubbard