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Title: Hostage to the Devil: The Possession and Exorcism of Five Contemporary Americans by Malachi Martin ISBN: 0-06-065337-X Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: October, 1992 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (83 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Terrifying, Fascinating Page Turner
Comment: Hostage to the Devil makes the world's worst bedtime reading. When you read fiction by a horror master like Stephen King, you can turn out the lights and reassure yourself it's just a work of imagination. You will experience no such relief in reading Malachi Martin's in depth portrayal of real exorcisms. What I read in Hostage to the Devil, left me wide awake long after I set the book down.
The stories are not sensationalized, but rather display an interesting combination of story-telling, reportage, and scholarship that make them impossible to dismiss. Although I am not a Catholic, I finished the book believing I'd been exposed to dangerous, but edifying truths about the nature of evil.
If you are truly interested in the phenomena of possession and exorcism and are not easily disturbed, then Hostage to the Devil will be well worth your time.
Rating: 4
Summary: Horrifying yet fascinating.
Comment: I read this book b/c I find the material fascinating, albeit horrifying. The topic that is discussed in the book, demonic possession, is something that I find rather interesting. I have read other books, accounts and seen the movies. As a fan of the macabre, I thought I have heard it all. This book totally changed my perception. It makes "The Exorcist" look like Dr. Suess. In fact, I read the first case study, Zio and the Smiler and took it back to the bookstore. What I read was so disgusting, explicit and nauseating that I had trouble falling asleep for 2 days. It reaches into the unimaginable part of the human soul and psyche. The vileness and ugliness of these accounts startles the imagination. This book is definately NOT for the faint of heart, nor the weak in constitution. I find it difficult to believe that one can sustain the type of physical, emotional and spiritual torture that accompanies the possessed. This book will make you reassess your spiritual outlook. It leaves the reader with an utterly claustrophobic feeling and the need to come up for air every now and again. I caution any parent who have children in the house to not leave this book out casually. It may affect a younger or sensitive person adversely. Hideous, sanguinous and wretched, "Hostage to the Devil" will keep the reader entraced and may serve some good....it will make you believe in evil. And when evil is acknowledged, as this book implies, only then can it be conquered.
Rating: 5
Summary: Sobering Book on Good and Evil in the World...
Comment: I highly recommend this book for those who don't believe that there is a God---Who is merciful and loves them. It is also for those who don't believe in the power of evil (the devil) in the our world. I read this book a while back and have not forgotten the images that were imprinted in my mind. It made me keenly aware of what a priest has to be like in order to carry out his priestly duties as a representative of Christ. It is not a pleasant book to read, but indeed a sobering experience. It gives light to what the true meaning of free-will is and of redemptive love. These exorcisms really happened to those 5 Americans..that is what makes this so impressive reading. This is not a Stephen King novel..yet it reads like one. And you almost wished it was--Instead of something that was recorded as though it was from a crime-scene forenics record...which it could be. Once you have read this book, you will not soon forget it... This book however, is not for the faint hearted. So if you have the courage to read it, then do so..you will not be disappointed in Malachi Martin's book.
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Title: Windswept House by Malachi Martin ISBN: 0385492316 Publisher: Main Street Books Pub. Date: 13 July, 1998 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Beware the Night by Ralph Sarchie, Lisa Collier Cool ISBN: 0312977379 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 14 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: An Exorcist Tells His Story by Gabriele, Father Amorth, Nicoletta V. MacKenzie, Benedict J. Groeschel ISBN: 0898707102 Publisher: Ignatius Press Pub. Date: March, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: JESUITS by Malachi Martin ISBN: 067165716X Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 15 February, 1988 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: KEYS OF THIS BLOOD: POPE JOHN PAUL II VERSUS RUSSIA AND THE WEST FOR CONTROL OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER by Malachi Martin ISBN: 0671747231 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 15 September, 1991 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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