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wasw's review
2.0
I started reading this book a bit over a year ago as I'd seen it sat on my mum's shelves for years and always wondered what it was like. Today I finally finished it. The fact it took me, a pretty quick and voracious reader, over a year says a lot. For a man who had what is on paper an interesting life, this is a terrifically slow and boring read. Much of the book details his mountaineering adventures as a young man, which whilst potentially interesting if you're into mountaineering hardly live up to the promise of the sensationalist title. The story of his life is in fact quite interesting when it finally gets to his interest in the occult and wider travels, but the book is written in such a pompous and self-aggrandising manner that it makes it difficult to distinguish between fact and self-promotion. I think if you're interested in the life of Crowley then you'd be probably be better served by one of his other biographers, this one is for real obsessives only.
lynn_k's review
2.0
I thought this was going to be full of juicy drama because, well, Aleister Crowley...but it was blindingly boring.
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