Whether or not Castenada made this all up or not is basically irrelevant; he still paints us a portrait of a shaman who insists on shaking up the world as we know it. Some of his sequels get a bit too caught up in the details, but Castenada has created a wonderful gatekeeper to the world of the fantastic. ( )

If you ignore the disreputable encouragement to use drugs, these books are fairl fantasy reading. ( )