Nicole ( Colie )'s review
2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl
by Daniel Pinchbeck
Nicole ( Colie )'s review
2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl by Daniel Pinchbeck
Nicole ( Colie )'s review
rating:
Pinchbeck is one of those scholars who, without losing sight of his end-goal, manages to take himself and his reader on a macro-tour of alternate universes simply by virtue of mind that rejects no thing. Though I'll admit I found his character less than appealing, I admire his ability to cohesively cross disciplines and present already-stigmatized information in such a manner that it becomes new, more urgent, and that it may manifest an amount of hope for a future that differs in some way, any way, all ways from the interminable stagnancy I sometimes think we face.
P.S. I need to reread my underlinings before this review can be legitimized. Do not undertake 2012 without pen in hand. If you can, I suggest reading it somewhere high, with a view of rolling grassland and dense pine forest. Oh, and have beside you a partner who has already read it, whom you can remind of details and whom you can fight with as though he himself were Daniel Pinchbeck (for those special sub-misogynistic...more
P.S. I need to reread my underlinings before this review can be legitimized. Do not undertake 2012 without pen in hand. If you can, I suggest reading it somewhere high, with a view of rolling grassland and dense pine forest. Oh, and have beside you a partner who has already read it, whom you can remind of details and whom you can fight with as though he himself were Daniel Pinchbeck (for those special sub-misogynistic...more
