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Originally Posted by pdurrant
Now onto a strange book. The Science Behind The Secret by Travis S. Taylor.
So far I'm distinctly unimpressed. I'm only going to finish it because I want to see how he gets where he's apparently going, which seems to be off the deep end. |
It wasn't worth it. I don't recommend the book. Amazing twaddle with quantum hand-waving to back it up.
He seems to have taken a few personal experiences and tried to tie them into a global framework utilising various speculations about consciousness and Quantum Mechanics.
And the bits about how you should ignore skeptics — classic.
It does seem that Dr Taylor has started to confuse wishful thinking* and fiction with fact. But I'll still read his fiction, as that's been fun so far.
Now I'm moving onto
The Complete Hammer's Slammers: Volume 1 by David Drake. I've read a lot of David Drakes SF and Fantasy, and even horror. I've liked it all, even though I don't usually like horror.
I have this book in a beautiful leather-bound, signed, special edition by Night Shade Press. But I've never got around to reading it, as paper books are just so inconvenient. But Baen brought out the ebook edition a year ago, so now it's time to read it.
* I'm using this phrase deliberately. "The Secret" mentioned in the book title is apparently the idea that if we think about some desired outcome in the right way, the the Universe will adjust itself to our wishes, and what we desire will come to pass.