I've always appreciated the author's work on his website. He pointed out things that I had not considered. Having met him and listened to two brief lectures, I decided that it was finally time to buy one of his books.
I am not impressed. The table of contents does not have titles. There is no index. Citation is almost entirely lacking and is otherwise only brief inline citations of author names. A vast, vast portion of the book is made up of rituals of the author's own creation. (Though interesting, I did not feel that this belonged and it made it feel that half the book was unnecessary to read.) There's a large amount of assumption that is otherwise unremarked. Germanic sources are mostly ignored; Slavic and Baltic sources are simply missing. Roman and Vedic sources are seemingly placed on a pedestal, even beyond the mere fact that they may be better preserved. Changes are made to reconstructed practices to reflect current dogma on equality, but this is only to allow women access to more roles, while this is not extended to men at all.
No copyeditor was employed at all. There are so many issues in grammar, pacing, punctuation, repetitiveness, and just general formatting. There are places with contradictory information, sometimes just paragraphs apart.
The author is very knowledgeable, but this does not show in this book. The most useful information is, indeed, already posted on his website for free as excerpts.
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