Review by Ryan Schafer
This collection is much better than Vol. 1, which featured Frank Miller as an artist but had a lousy writer. At first, reading Vol. 2 is a similar experience to watching the original James Bond films. It's classic, kinda corny, pulpy, and entertaining with lots of cliche's but overall a good story line. It gets better though. About half way through you find yourself in a much darker world as Miller get's more creative. There's some great plot twists and morbid imagination, and the art get's stranger and more nightmarish. Read this if you want to. If you're inclined to get bored skip a few issues. I haven't read the next volume yet, I will have to see if it continues to follow the trend.

Review by Future Man
This book is excellent! This is always the first book that I recommend to folks who want to start intentional communities or folks who are already in one and looking create better process or systems to function more smoothly as a whole. Intermixed throughout the chapters, there are activities provided as suggestions for brainstorming or working through potentially difficult moments. This book covers all stages of community visioning and I think it's one of the most important tools you could have.

Review by Ryan Schafer
These cards are awesome. They are friendly and celestial and inspiring. I feel so connected to the universe when I use them. They have helped me to rethink what the Tarot really is and what it is for. The book is very helpful and illuminating. There are abstract passages helping to translate the visual essence of the card into something verbal without getting too specific, but it also gives some pretty useful basic divinatory meanings. At the top of the explanation of each Minor Arcana card there is a title - for instance the Seven of Pentacles is "Fear of Failure". I have mixed feelings about that aspect. It gives you a quick summary of what the card is about but if you let it become too fixed to the card it constricts your understanding of it. If you let the "title" given to each of these cards become a rigid definition your readings can become much too literal and your intuitive impulse can be stifled. It's a little different from the classic Rider-Waitte format in that instead of a Page, Knight, Queen, and King you have a Prince, Princess, Knight, and Queen. I think this keeps the deck more balanced from a gender perspective - there are no Masculine Patriarch Kings at the top of the food chain - but it's a bit of a stumbling block if you are used to Rider-Waitte. There are also 3 variation of the Lovers card, a heterosexual, gay, and lesbian card in order to be accepting of all sexualities. I think the creator of the deck intended the diviner to choose one but I like to include all three cards, because I think if you don't interpret them literally they each can have different connotations. The cards themselves are gorgeous. There are a lot of naked people, and there is much psychedelic imagery. They have a purity to them and an energy of inclusiveness. Whether or not you have experience using Tarot cards if you have any interest in the esoteric arts I would suggest giving this deck a try. And even if you have no interest in the use of Tarot cards for divining, these cards are great for meditation or exploring symbolism, and can be appreciated purely as art. I am sad to have to check them back in soon, as I definitely feel my life has been enriched by these cards.

Review by Sam Swicord


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Review by Sam Swicord


Review by Sam Swicord
A great, and depressing, story. It has a lot of recurrent themes.

Review by Sam Swicord
Vonnegut complains about things. The results are great.

Review by Sam Swicord
A great story.

Review by Sam Swicord
Interesting book. Overrated in my opinion.

Review by Sam Swicord
A great story.

Review by Sam Swicord
Has a lot of filler and spends no time responding to plausible criticism.

Review by Sam Swicord
Presents 2 short stories which have little connection to each other. They are well-presented. Recommended for Enderverse fans.

Review by Sam Swicord


Review by Sam Swicord


Review by Sam Swicord
A surprisingly good conclusion to Card's trilogy.

Review by Sam Swicord
A lot of it is boring. Has a very interest presentation of scientists studying a strange virus.

Review by Sam Swicord
A lot of it is boring.

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