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Originally Posted by Alfa
Crowley throws in a lot of BS troughout his books, as the swines will roll in mud, while silver recognises silver. In other words; pick out the marbles and forget the rest. There are lots of marbles there.
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There's more BS than anything else. He was a VERY charismatic individual, in the same way that some far-right religious fundamentalists are charismatic. Able to get people to follow him and submit to HIS will, he had a whale of a time, but often at the expense of others. He wrote some interesting stuff, but the man was an arsehole...."Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law" indeed (more like "do my will shall be the whole of the law").
On the original subject of this thread, I think 'Diary of a Drug Fiend' is a very poorly written book (roughly following his early exploits), that does little to capture the imagination of the reader (all personal opinion of course). I think that 'The Strategem and other stories' is a far better piece of work by the man (from a purely entertaining read point of view).