Customer Reviews

Phrenology

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seriously, I'd like to know. this "book" deserves negative stars. It looks like it was published by a vanity press.

I ordered this book expecting a literate and intelligent discussion of the science of phrenology.
Imagine my horror when I found this to be the inane mental wanderings of (I-don't-know-what). The book was too disgusting for me to read more than one paragraph on any one page. I read about 15 selections before doing something I have only done 3 times in 50 years - threw the book away.
I would not even recommend using the paper for toilet paper for fear of soiling one's sewer system.
It is sad that with so much need in the world that the author, publisher, and distributors could not find a better use for their time.

An early work from one of America's most nebulous thinkers. Phrenology's hocus-pocus will entice or bore depending on the reader. If you like the first five pages, sit back - the text is remarkably consistent in both style and mood. Quintessential Martinez.

If you are searching for a book on phrenology that could provide a working frame or methodology, even history or scholar essay this is not the book. It doesn't follow any systematic frame and it is absolutely useless.

New & different! Enjoyed this book a lot. The author has obvious insight into the minds of the unordinary and uses this insight to create some interesting people and situations.

buy it before your friends do- or let your friends buy it and then borrow it- or wait for a sale. question, how long do these books stay online for sale? this thing might be around when your grannakids need some adolescent theraputics - if this the case, i might just hold off - then again i want to reed this book so bad - what should i do - i don't know what to do - maybe i'll find out what to do if i buy this book- might make a nice wedding present for some of my guy frineds back in the service- only problem is he asked for my back or the new anthology- i really should just buy this book-my thearpist problmy has a copy on his self- maybe i should jusstg buy a copy from him-or maybe he could lend it out-shouldn't be to hard to convince him that it is needed in-i don't know-its weird to aks your thearpist sort of things-i might be able to find some change in the couch-if not under the matress-i don't know what to do-i need to read this book-i am so confused

when i first bellied up to the author and asked him if he was trying to expose the sully underbelly of the midwest world he tried to kick me in the teeth, a place where high school beauty queens turn up years later looking tired and ragged, the very definition of hill street blues, dating the abstract algerbraic burn-outs who stopped being able to perform away at college and now find themselves exiled on main st with a paranoid android wearing a dog's collar was no place for me he said. he gave me a bus ticket to california and bought me a coffee, he's a true gentleman and i'm glad i bought his book. i now know what i never will be missing.