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The Pocket I-Ching (Yenbooks)

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A good I-Ching for the beginner, great for quick answers and catagorized for simplicity. No interpretation needed. If you are looking for a more philosophical version, this is not it.

This book is too simple and glosses over much of the insight and depth that other commentaries do. I bought this out of a bargain box at Media Play and insofar as it introduced me to the I Ching and spurred me to buy more editions and get into studying the oracle, I guess I can give it that much thanks, but you would be better off getting Brian Browne Walker's I Ching for a starter and going from there.

They also use that nasty word fortune telling on the cover. As anyone knows, the I Ching IS NOT fortune telling. It is advice and direction and choices at confusing turning points when logic cannot answer. This book tries to be too much of a fortune telling tome.

There are simply better versions to start your education with.

Not much here. You'd be just as well off writing down a list of 20 to 30 possible fortunes and then rolling a dice with as many sides or asking a magic 8-ball your fortune. This book basically saps any of the poetry and ambiguity out of the I-ching
and as such treats Taoism as a cheap worthless trinket suitable for resale in the Salvation Army knick-knack department. Why do people insist on trivializing and dumbing down incredibly ancient, complex, and mystical traditions like Taoism and Christianity????????