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jorreads's review
3.0
Could’ve been presented in a manner that motivated the reader to turn the page more. Heavily focused on the secret societies aspect, especially freemasonry. Would’ve enjoyed to see more of the hidden histories.
dibujared's review
Similar in scope and depth to "The Occult Book," but, personally, I didn't find the subject as interesting. Still, it was a very informative read.
sjoukje's review
2.0
Didn't really love it. The stories are too superficial. But for the general idea of conspiricies it is allright. Cover looks good and looks nice on a bookshelf.
ie_haven_'s review
3.0
Anybody else’s copy have some really blatant mistakes on some of the dates printed? I don’t know if I like the way this book is laid out but it’s really interesting content so like. There’s that!
rosedosed's review
2.0
This book turned out to be a bit more informative than I anticipated 1/4th of the way through! Conspiracies (or “Samenzweringen”, as I read it, but Goodreads doesn’t show the rad version of the Dutch cover) does a great job roughly sketching out some historically relevant conspiracies & cults. Mass hysteria is a very intriguing topic, and reading about *just* how deep antisemitism goes was a very harrowing experience.
All that being said, this book unfortunately only goes skin deep. It was moreso a list of interesting topics to look up than it was a genuine encyclopedia. In a way, it kind of felt like a collection of back-cover summaries; every entry does the job to get your attention, but it ends once you’re invested, so you’re always left wanting more. I also have a slight hunch that this one worked much better in English than it did in Dutch. From what I can tell Greer has a very appropriately tense writing style that was, unfortunately, lost in translation a little bit.
It’s a 2.5 for me, initially rounded up for the DOPE cover & the fact that every subject on the list was, in fact, a very interesting read (granted I googled it for additional information first) but eventually rounded down for the fact that the book itself didn’t really leave much of an impact & the somewhat lacking translation. Sorry king :(
All that being said, this book unfortunately only goes skin deep. It was moreso a list of interesting topics to look up than it was a genuine encyclopedia. In a way, it kind of felt like a collection of back-cover summaries; every entry does the job to get your attention, but it ends once you’re invested, so you’re always left wanting more. I also have a slight hunch that this one worked much better in English than it did in Dutch. From what I can tell Greer has a very appropriately tense writing style that was, unfortunately, lost in translation a little bit.
It’s a 2.5 for me, initially rounded up for the DOPE cover & the fact that every subject on the list was, in fact, a very interesting read (granted I googled it for additional information first) but eventually rounded down for the fact that the book itself didn’t really leave much of an impact & the somewhat lacking translation. Sorry king :(
jordaher's review
3.0
Could’ve been presented in a manner that motivated the reader to turn the page more. Heavily focused on the secret societies aspect, especially freemasonry. Would’ve enjoyed to see more of the hidden histories.