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63 of 65 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Fear is a good thing, 20 Mar 2004
Summary: Disturbing. Ingenious. Magical. Buy it.I have to be honest; I'm feeling very ambivalent regarding this book. I'm not sure if it's a masterpiece of self-empowerment, a cynical pile of literary terrorism or simply a big fat joke played on all the people stupid enough to spend their money on it (like me). The Psychopath's Bible is just that; sound advice for people who aren't too concerned with ethics. It's a manual on how to get what you want. It contains advice on how to analyse and deconstruct yourself, on how to analyse others, and on how to use this for whatever you want. And how to make them thank you for it. It isn't evil, deranged or satanical, it's simply practical. So practical that it's scary. Several time while reading it, I got the terrible feeling; 'what if I changed into that? What if I used this, looked at the world like this? What would I be able to achieve?'
To be honest, I'm terrified of what I might do. That I might do everything I ever wanted to. Nothing is more scary than that. In the end, there's really only one thing to do. Get this book. It is deeply troubling to read, it has got me questioning things I took for granted, and I feel richer because of it.
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34 of 56 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Hyatt 'seems' to make sense etc.......BUT...., 31 Jul 2005
At first this all seems very sharp and and the ball even if it is from a pessimistic and doomladen perspective. Yes people are as Hyatt describes and many of the mechanisms described are in place but he's not giving you the whole picture exactly, he is saying everything is how HE percieves it or tells you (which is how he sells books right?)....Im so happy someone out there is 100% enlightened to know all this (sniggers), oh but then on the other hand as we are all distorted in one way or another you cant believe messiah Hyatt ,me , R.A Wilson and his catch phrase or Amazon.co.uk's policies!:P. Some might say the poor doctor is a delusional MANIC DEPRESSIVE who need a hug. The book is worth reading but mainly so any tricks the black (as in base ,TRIVIAL magician and psychic vampire, LHP systems are not all as Hyatt operates , there is a big misconception/s in the occult field) uses are clear , if you are lucid and can already see though you will already know and percieve most of it. FIRST- Hyatt uses all the suggestions and word play on the reader himself! How can you trust the word of a self proclaimed psychic leech who's over inflated delusional ego knows no bounds???? Listen to some of Hyatts audio stuff, If your a sharpn bunny you will automatically get what Im on about , the word 'pillock' should surface in ones minds eye surrounded by laughing gnomes eating jelly:P. SECOND -Ever read La Veys Satanic Bible?(he even leaves the 'Bible' bit in!!!!!). This is basically a parody rehash with added shock value written by a far less charismatic charachter if anything. Imagine the SB re written using some fancy pants American buzzwords *TocXic MagiCIaN* (does he have bumper stickes and other 'cool' freebies?), a set of shock tactics for todays standards and his credible academia(which means jack) and magical proficiency badge (I always thought Regardie, Crowley, Fortune and the GD were a bunch of idiots personally) and just having a credible teacher does not mean the student is any bit cleverer than a donkey no matter what page of the advanced calculus book its fly swatting tail flips open, just because you visit the Shaolin temple it does not mean you are Da Mo or have recieved his knowledge!!????;P Im gonna send my Hyatt a MY LITTLE PONY (tm) colouring book to help him through his personal DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL period because it may help this distored period and heal his troubled head quicker;) Yours, Lopsang Rampant *wipes third eye with a cleenex* x
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4 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Remove the shock value and what have you..., 16 Dec 2007
This book may read like revelation to anyone who is open to or bordering upon a cynically self-serving or deeply pessimistic world view but some of the psychological content could be more refined and there is far, far, far too much meshing of literary or political concepts into the mix.
At times I was sure this book was a joke, a coffee table book like the Anarchists Cookbook (the bomb book not the recipe book), kind of buy this book, shock your friends, outrage your loved ones, startle your loving parents as they stand already horrified by teenage angst personified.
Lets be really, really clear about this psychosis is an illness, not an identity to which anyone should or could really aspire or be inspired by, while psycho-pathy is a different matter again.
Portraying psychopaths as enlightened intellectuals who have hit upon truths about how the "sheep" operate is literary or philosophic nonsense, making allusions to how few politicos or belief systems have valued the individual is also nonsensical.
The true psycho-path isnt a ponderous or enlightened individual or individualist, unless some how failing to value the individual or individualism some how qualifies a person as the ultimate individualist, which truly is one almighty sumersault of reasoning.
So be sure about what you're buying, it's not a deeply troubling and rudely awakening read, it's not perfect psychology, its worse philosophy but if you want to read a book with a bit of shock value then go right ahead. The authors of weighty tomes of ethical or moral philosophy, I suspect, arent going to be too troubled by the "revelations" here in.
Edit: Sentence structure changed for clarity, psychosis and psycho-pathy are not being used synomyns.
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