- Hardcover: 304 pages
- Publisher: Watkins Publishing (6 Sep 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1905857187
- ISBN-13: 978-1905857180
- Product Dimensions: 18.6 x 13.4 x 3.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 929,829 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Nostradamus: The Good News" breaks stunning new ground in isolating those prophecies in which Nostradamus suggested the possibility of positive change - that could - and indeed did - alter the world for the better. It was Nostradamus' fundamental belief that if the world could only see into the future, it would wish to alter it benevolently. His prophecies were an attempt to communicate across the intervening ages with the world to come. Now, for the first time, a Nostradamus commentator has adhered rigorously to Nostradamus' own index dates and by so doing, he has revolutionized traditional Nostradamus scholarship. His innovative new versions of the verses combine literal translation of the medieval French with his own technique of 'euphonic translation', which takes into account the codes, hidden meanings and jeux de mots concealed within the medieval texts.
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Mario Reading is the author of Nostradamus: The Complete Prophecies for the Future as well as The Watkins Dictionary of Dreams.
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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A quite unexpected gem,
By Avid reader (West Palm Beach, FL USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Nostradamus: The Good News (Hardcover)
The diviner Nostradamus has acquired a certain notoriety for his generally dark prophecies about the future, and I would bet that most people's knowledge of him and his quatrains has been in that spirit. One of my earliest encounters with Nostradamus came while listening to Al Stewart's 1973 song called 'Nostradamus, Pt. 1', in which he sings about some of the better known prophecies: the great London fire of 1666, the rise of Franco and Hitler and the assassinations of Jack and Robert Kennedy. No wonder that Nostradamus and his predictions continue to fascinate us to this day.
It was thus with great interest -- and astonishment -- that I came across a book of Nostradamus' 'good news'. To my shame, I have to admit that I was quite unaware of the breadth and scope of Nostradamus' predictions, straggling both bad and good news. The author should be praised just for exposing us to these 'other' prophecies. Once again employing his 'trademark' technique of unraveling secret connections that has already proved very effective in 'Nostradamus: the Complete Prophesies for the Future', Mario Reading has produced another book both equally accessible to the layman and worthy of further study by anyone interested in delving further into the world of Nostradamus. Once again, the original French quatrains are juxtaposed with an authoritative, up-to-date and modern English translation. All this goes to show that reading Nostradamus' prophecies can be positive and -- dare I say it -- good fun. After writing a book on both the good and the bad news, it is to be hoped that the author can be coaxed to provide a complete translation of all of Nostradamus' prophecies in the future.
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2.0 out of 5 stars (1 customer review)
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Not really a believer now,
By Jonsam Friedman "Symbilbooks" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Nostradamus: The Good News (Hardcover)
This book made almost no sense from beginning to end. Maybe two quatrains seemed logical, the rest was some kind of bad sales pitch, not a good read at all.
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