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Summary: Not enough
Review: This book needs to be longer. No one can explain such magic with this little of a book.... nuf said, bigger book, more info.
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Summary: Not very good and possibly dangerous.
Review: This is a tiny paperback and most of it is taken up with symbols representing the fifty names of Marduk. It instructs you to get up at 3 am and light two candles. Then stare at one of the symbols and use a spell which invokes the power of this name for whatever purpose the symbol represents. It then goes on to say that if you do hear anything or experience anything strange to just ignore it. Personally, I think this is a terrible practice. Even if you could work a spell with this little but of practice and lack of training, if something manifests itself then this is obviously some type of evocation magic. Evocation can be extremely dangerous if done by someone not trained in banishing techniques. All in all this is not a good book and promotes dangerous practices just to make a quick buck. Don't get it.
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Summary: NOT a hoax
Review: The Necronomicon is not a hoax. It is all real and dangerous. I know. Lovecraft merely took "ideas" from what he heard about it. These "ideas" are very different from the true text. I have heard Their Call in my dreams. DO NOT take this as a hoax! Everyone says that Lovecraft created the Necronomicon and the Cthulhu Mythos and it is all made up. I have been to Leng in my dreams. I have seen R'lyeh and its mighty towers. The time will come when we open the Gate. It is a moment I have longed for. I hear Them stirring in the void. The time will come. Soon...
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Summary: Is it real? Does it matter?
Review: Whether or not the Necronomicon is real is rather trivial. If it IS a hoax, it is still a fun read. I have not tried any of the spells because getting up at 3 AM is rather inconvenient for me, but I'm sure they are a lot of fun. If it IS real (and I've met a number of people who will swear on their lives that it is), then it is worth its weight in gold. Either way, you can't go wrong.
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Summary: People Please!
Review: It was extremely sad to read the previous reviews. Here we have a bunch of "adults" saying that this book is pure evil and that they have not dared to try the dreaded spells contained in this black book. It's obvious that these persons have not read Lovecraft and his biography, otherwise they would know that the Necronomicon is a FICTION work and the spells are nothing but random (sometimes incoherent) words. All sorts of magick require time and knowledge and if you do not know where to begin, you shold try "The Secret Teachings of All Ages" , now that's a good book about the hermetic and the occult. Don't waste your money buying the Fakeonomicon.
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Summary: Great Book!
Review: I've been into necro for about a year now, and I haven't found a book yet that is extremely helpful. This is a great book to learn all the 50 names and what they can do. But I do warn you, this is a very powerful book, and you must know what you're doing before even considering a certain seal and name. This book is not "just to play with" thingy. Necro spellbook is very real!
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Summary: PURE EVIL!!!!!!!
Review: Whether this book is real i cannot say, but it does have a power about it. I haven't preformed the rituals, i dare not. This book my have the ability to summon Marduk it may not. I have known people who have been hurt by the Necronomicon. I can't believe Lovecraft made it up, it is to complex for that, and I am a devoted student of Lovecraft. Do NOT take it lightly. But i encourage you to read it, but respect it. It is more dangerous then you think. Be warned.
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Summary: QUITE A DIFFERENT TONE FROM OUR OLD FRIEND SIMON
Review: Open the gates for the pop occult demons from beyond easier than ever! Master the secrets of the universe without getting your hands dirty with human sacrifices! The Necronomicon Pantheon is going to make it easier on you than ever! For five bucks!Once upon a time we had some occult paperback called The Necronomicon, edited by Simon, and it was all grizzly and gruesome, filled with the puffed up fantasies of the crew that gave it birth. Terrible warnings, rare ingredients for the rituals, the Mad Arab's rattling of Black Things, seven Gates to cross for the right to cast magick, etc. It was all rather (meant to be) horrifying. In fact, apart from some glaring errors I appreciated the book as a fun hoax, as a non-fiction horror story. And I think that Lovecraft would have very much approved of it if he saw the number of people who "lost their minds" over this Simon Necronomicon (Lovecraft's was, what, over 1200 pages?). Yet the tone of this new supplement! Suddenly Simon starts babbling about taking control of your own destiny with the aid of the Necronomicon, which has all beautiful consequences for your life, and which reduces the concentrating exquisite rituals with gibbering Sumerian to staring at a seal on a peace of paper, and visualizing the goal one seeks ('Imagine yourself in a pile of cash!'). It would seem that from the old, musty and forbidding tome of utter evil and vile knowledge about indifferent horrors, a beautiful New Age rose grows to help us to our pitiful little wishes for a nice capitalistic life. In fact, this book wouldn't stand evil on James Redfield's resumé. I haven't attempted any 'spell' from this book yet, although I have it now for three years, I think. Still, I don't mind giving it a try. Actually, I kind of look forward to penetrate the mysteries of Yog-Sothoth and unleash all the hell of Cthulhu upon this world by sitting in a corner, staring intently at the seal, concentrate and demand loudly, "Demons of Azathoth, come forth! Reclaim this Earth you Derlethian Beasts of the Abyss!" After that, I will sip my beer, 'sit back and watch the show,' and do some '...good hunting.' Simon will be first, Redfield next...
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Summary: A bit silly
Review: A bit silly, and certainly not thorough enough to give anyone any detailed insight into the world of witchcraft. I am sure that there are those who believe they have achieved magical things with the spells herein, but my impression is that saying meaningless words and drawing pretty, but again meaningless, simplistic drawings, is not what those who practice wicca, witchcraft, or magick, in any serious way would regard as a serious incursion into a fascinating arena of belief.
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Summary: Not really what I expected
Review: This book mainly deals with the lighter side of the Necronomicon. Although the original is fiction, it is still a good read but I found this book to be small and not really that interesting to read. It is just filled with sigils and a short descript of each.
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