Victoria Loustalot
Autor von Future Perfect: A Skeptic’s Search for an Honest Mystic
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Future Perfect: A Skeptic’s Search for an Honest… von Victoria Loustalot
At first I was skeptical, but I loved how she explored the idea of mysticism not as something intangible but instead as something to be sought. We are quickly losing any sense of spirituality but it's clear we all need some guidance in that area. Intuition is being ignored, and this book gives some hope that there are a multitude of ways to bring out focus back to it.
Stranger than fiction?
This one goes on several tangents and I’m not sure I enjoyed the ride along. At some point I had to be reminded that it was a memoir I was reading and not fiction. I cringed every time she mentioned Rob Brezney’s astrology column. Seriously? I used to read his stuff in the local free rag during a particularly depressing summer in San Diego. I only saw clever phrases built around some goofy advice. Entertainment, in other words. Get Real!
This one goes on several tangents and I’m not sure I enjoyed the ride along. At some point I had to be reminded that it was a memoir I was reading and not fiction. I cringed every time she mentioned Rob Brezney’s astrology column. Seriously? I used to read his stuff in the local free rag during a particularly depressing summer in San Diego. I only saw clever phrases built around some goofy advice. Entertainment, in other words. Get Real!
I think this book is mis-titled, as very little of this book was actually about a skeptic's search for an honest mystic. Most for this book was about the author's meanderings, celebrity sightings, and navel-gazing. She's a competent writer, and has some good insights, but it just wasn't the kind of spiritual memoir I was expecting or looking for.
I'm taking off two stars for something that might not be the author's fault: the title didn't reflect the book. It could be the publisher thought this one was catchy (or SEO enabled) or perhaps this was the work-in-progress title but the final book went in another direction.
The author frequently refers to herself as a memoirist, which seems accurate. She has a long, discursive style of storytelling where a long, long personal anecdote precedes the stated topic of a chapter. I don't object to that per se; it's a style I'm prone to and Ms. Loustalot does it rather well. Her prose is very readable. But still, the story payoff isn't always there.
Perhaps a better subtitle would have been "In which I examine my life through the lens of interviews with and occasional visits to psychics."… (mehr)
The author frequently refers to herself as a memoirist, which seems accurate. She has a long, discursive style of storytelling where a long, long personal anecdote precedes the stated topic of a chapter. I don't object to that per se; it's a style I'm prone to and Ms. Loustalot does it rather well. Her prose is very readable. But still, the story payoff isn't always there.
Perhaps a better subtitle would have been "In which I examine my life through the lens of interviews with and occasional visits to psychics."… (mehr)
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