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Summary: What a waste of time (26 years!)
Review: Although not a waste of money! This book (the comments) was written by a non-scholar, in a pseudo-scholarly way. His translation is questionable (to say the least), the historical inaccuracy shows that he is not interested in history, nor were the geographic annotations checked on a map.
IT IS however a compendium of what most people (English or Americans, or Anglo-philes) who are into new age believe to be a good interpretation of Nostradamus' work. So it's quite amusing. But remember: Nostradamus was French, not American (only quite recently discovered) or English!
It does contain a good transcript of the original texts, which is a plus for people who know French.
What's really disturbing about it is the bias the writer overtly displays towards certain 'political' interpretations (the bush administration will be regarded as one of the most beneficial influences on mankind for centuries to come, apparently) which I find slightly exaggerated.
In short: the author's comments are not the result of years of research but the result of years of self-indulging, non-critical, self-opinionating thought. A shame, all that wasted time. BUT I 'm having a good time laughing, waiting for an objective book about Nostradamus to come out.
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Summary: opinions on nostradamus
Review: did you people ever think that maybe these people don't care about all the negative things you have to say about there interests? I found your reviews quite offensive and frankly, I don't care about the red cross and am a great deal more interested in nostradamus. I'm not trying to say he could accuratly predict the future, but I do think all of it is interesting.
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Summary: Hogue Presents Open-Minded View
Review: Hogue has obviously spent a lot of time and effort in research both into Nostrodamus's life (which is very important when understanding what ANY author is writing) and into the translations and interpretations of the quatrains. He gives the reader the purpose behind the predictions, an in-depth rationale as to the reason it is so difficult to translate, admits his own short-comings, and then attempts to translate them to English, but always gives alternate meanings if they are too unclear to interpret in just one way. He interprets each quatrain in the way he believes it to be interpreted, incorporates other authors' interpretations, and encourages the reader to make his/her own interpretation. This prophecies, in their original form, are very, very difficult to understand, and Hogue gives and open-minded view to the interpretations and never says that he is absolutely right. I admire anyone who admits they don't have all of the answers and appreciated being educated enough in reading his book to be able to make my own interpretations.
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Summary: ARE OUR DESTINIES PREDETERMINED?
Review: I become thoroughly engrossed in this book from the very beginning. It is quite lengthy, 976 pages, and it is certainly a book that takes some time not only to read but digest. Was Nostradamus a prophet, a genius, a madman - the reader will need to reach their own conclusions. In some respects, the book can be interpreted almost as one interprets their daily horoscope. Given a wide scope, the reader can apply a prophecy to fit almost any situation depending on the existing surroundings, circumstances, conditions, and what is happening in the reader's life at that given moment. For anyone who firmly believes in predetermined destinies, they will find the philosophies and beliefs of Nostradamus both intriguing and thought proking. The message can be deep and readers are often compelled to look deep inside themselves for a clearer understanding of the prophecies of this 16th Century, French doctor and astrologist.
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Summary: Not bad
Review: I picked up this book knowing very little backround of Nostradamus or his language. That being said, I had to rely on all the actual English. Basically, Big Mr. N has had tons of bunk prophecies and a few that hit the bulls-eye in a way that's hard to deny. The author rambles on occasionaly, giving us his opinion of decoding big N's quatraints, but fails to impress. If anyone is actually looking for predictions that are YET to come, do not waste your time- anywhere. These prophecies I doubt will ever be able to be deciphered so as to predict a coming event.
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Summary: Don't expect to find quotes from your bogus emails in here.
Review: I'm not surprised to see this selling so well over the past week. Never underestimate the power of junk emails and talk radio. I have not read it but I understand it to be a fairly straightforward account of the whole Nostradamus thing. Can't you just see the dorks who ordered this based on those bogus emails poring through the text trying to find the quotes from the emails. HELLO!!! They ain't in there people. You were had...Check it out.
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Summary: This book using others work to further clandestine causes
Review: Nostradamus was given a great gift, from our heavenly Father;whose name alone is Yahweh...He was given the information to write for further generations to decipher...
Now we start seeing things occur, and Men of worldly "wisdom?".tend to ignore the relevence of these writtings by this man of old, The "Dead Sea" scrolls reveal the same information as what is being acknowledged by Nostradamus's same words..But as always the corrupt Minds of Men leave this "truth" out of the stream of "knowledge"..for the common man. We as a nation just had a "WAKE-UP" call.
Our God & Father, the creator of life it self...is gathering back unto himself His "own"...An some of us To-day know of the "path" forwhich one must take...NO!! religious faction of Mankind is or ever was a true messenger of God's "TRUTH"...But there are some of us who can still be trusted in this world, and we shall conquer the Iniquity of this barren land of ours.
through the teachings and guidlines set forth by Our Heavenly Father-YAHWEH...being given of His "SEAL"...as it was intended to be passed on...Not!!! as a Man's dictation and self taught propagandas...Let's reclaim that which is rightfully the children of "Isreal's" spiritual inheritance, Once partaking of the 2nd Baptism, Which men of religious Orders tend to deny.
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Summary: Not bad
Review: Nostradamus' Prophecies are extremely vague and enigmatic. Now you might be saying "But Nostradamus predicted WWII and Hitler." and here's what I have to say about that: Have you ever actually read Nostradamus' Prophecies with the near most perfect translation? Or have you've read a very poor, tampered around with book that was based on Nostradamus' Prophecies? Well, this book is one of them. Many authors change around the words of the prophet to make their so called "event" to be more fufilling and valid for the reader, so that the reader may believe that Nostradamus was really a prophet, and that he saw these events truthfully. Well you know what...that's wrong. Anyone who changes the words around of Nostradamus are making a lie out of him. I suggest you get "Nostradamus and His Prophecies" by Edgar Leoni. He puts Nostradamus' prophecies in the most precise translation he can truthfully put it in. Not only that, he also has footnotes of the origin of the words that are enigmatic to him and the reader.
So you want to know what I think about Nostradamus? I'm totally disappointed in him. His prophecies are very vague and poor. I still try to figure out how his prophecies have survived up till this time. I'm not the only one who doubts him. Le Peteller (a famous commentor and translator of Nostradamus' works) also believes his prophecies are a complete enigma. Nostradamus' son Ceasar also believes that he wasn't the real thing. Ceasar believed he was crazy and that his prophecies were nothing but garbage. Even Edgar Leoni thought he did nothing but try to fool the people. He believed that Nostradamus made his prophecies in such a way as to make people interpret it in many different ways as the human mind can grasp. One might say that Quatrain V-79 is talking about Abraham Lincoln, while another might say that he's talking about Napoleon, or even Jesus Christ himself! Although I doubt Nostradamus, something deep inside is telling me that Nostradamus was the real thing. I've been studying Nostradamus for 3 years and sometimes I wonder if Nostradamus' prophecies were actually a code. Maybe those extremely vague prophecies are not the real thing, but that each prophecy is a huge anagram of some sort that when solved, the prophecy predicts exactly as people would suspect it without any vagueness at all. Even the prophets in the bible were right on the money with their predictions and were hardly vague at all. I personally believe the best prophet out there is not Nostradamus, but Isaiah. He was the prophet that predicted a son of God and that salvation was God's main purpose. And you know what? Jesus fits Isaiah's prophecies perfectly. And he wasn't vague at all. But who knows, maybe someone who read Isaiah made up the story of Jesus Christ based on Isaiah's prophecies. But then again, how can you make up a great teacher who accepted even women at his time, out of thin air? If you want to read a good prophet, then go read the prophets of the bible. But if you want to try to figure out Nostradamus' enigmatic codes in his quatrains (since most of the words he wrote were misspelled and enigmatic at its time) then go get Nostradamus' Prophecies by Edgar Leoni. I hope someday someone will figure out this prophets code (if he has one), so that I will know for sure that he was truly the greatest prophet who ever lived.
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Summary: Don't take too literally....
Review: There has been alot said and written about Nostradamus over the years, but here is a slightly more scientific/psychological slant than some others, based primarily on the work of Jung and others. Nostradamus' words eminated from dreams and dream states deep within his mind, but they are essentially no different to the dreams and thoughts of other people. The brain dreams, we all dream. Some people simply have more connection to their dreams and their dream states, and Nostradamus was probably one of these people. Most dreams are random, but a few relate to the outside world, ie the thoughts, anxieties, and culture one lives in, whilst some people probably tend to dream more common and universal symbolic themes. These dreams/dream states/visions, written down, will therefore tend over time to follow consistent patterns, and some dreams and words will at one point or another prove to be 'correct', or 'fulfilled', simply because we live in a world where history and historical processes tend to repeat themselves. This book may have value for personal inspiration, such as personal understanding of own's own dreams. But it would be wrong to believe that the words of one man several centuries ago were directly connected or ACTUAL images of events of another age. It is more likely that he saw, in his dream-like trance states, the same universal images, the same warnings of his mind of his own time, which also occur in other ages. That is also why he left them vague and cryptic. The messages are symbols, they are dreams, they are not, as some people interpret them, supposed to be uniquely accurate, or some kind of magic. Dreams are inspiring, they show us images from deep within the collective pscyhe, which the mind interprets and warns from the world around it, but they are not necassarily external reality. As one wouldn't necasarily take ones own dreams in the night, as necassarily real or true, I wouldn't take other people dreams from trance-like states, as literally or necassarily real either.
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Summary: NOSTRADAMUS
Review: This is the best book on Nostradamus I have found yet. Author John Hogue does an excellent job translating the old seers writings. The only drawback I noticed, was the fact that some Christians may find themselves offended. The underlying problem seems to be author John Hogues vague assumption that Christianity is no greater than or different than other world religions. I would reccomend this book to a friend. They should also read it with an open mind. The prediction that intrigues me the most is the one that predicts the seven year tribulation from 2013 through 2019.
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