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Title: Beware the Night by Ralph Sarchie, Lisa Collier Cool ISBN: 0-312-97737-9 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 14 October, 2001 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.98 (43 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Beware the Night
Comment: This book is positively gripping. I must disagree with the other Catholic reviewer listed here. Yes, both Frs. McKenna and Martin went against the Vatican's grain in speaking out about evil in our midst. But if you look at the history of our church, it's people like them who planted the seeds of changed. Padre Pio never said the Novus Ordo, and is now Saint Pio. God Bless Them! As for relics of the True Cross, Amazon.com has a number of excellent books on the subject! Check them out...
As something of a square peg myself, much more comfortable with the writings of Jane Austin, I found I very much enjoyed Officer Sarchie's New York style of "speech." His writing is very much like a discussion with a friend. He takes you through his cases at high speed while still bringing you face to face with real evil. He explains the difference between demonic evil and the evil that men do. Yes, we humans can get down right nasty.
Excellent book.
Rating: 2
Summary: Colloquial, Sensational, but Accurate
Comment: Officer Sarchie has undertaken to write a gripping account of evil as he has encountered it in his 'job' with the NYC Police. At the core of his discussion is the concept that, as violent, viscious, and otherwise depraved as it may be, human evil is no comparison to praeternatural evil.
That being said, this is by no means a scholarly work. Sarchie's style is colloquial, conversational at best. There are no serious annotations. And he makes some terrible "professional" mistakes in discussing his experience assisting at formal exorcisms. He reveals information at times in a round-about manner, while other at other times being too direct, (e.g., describing failed exorcism attempts). He himself manages to violate most of the principles he tries to promote in this book.
Informative? Yes? Valid? Most certainly. This is a not-too-bad, somewhat sensationalized, attempt to discuss two distinct but very real issues: human and 'extra-human' evil, and exorcism. All things being equal, I would not encourage spending money on this book when there are more worthwhile -- better written, more comprehensive -- books available on the topic. If you find your curiosity piqued, get ahold of M. Scott Peck's "People of the Lie" for a serious discussion of the nature of praeturnatural evil and its effects on humans, and Malachi Martin's "Hostage to the Devil" for an in-depth look at the (exorcism) rituals used to expell demons.
Rating: 1
Summary: Stay Away!
Comment: This book was extremely disappointing. Very conceited, pretentious writer who writes very badly. And way too much self-righteous proselytizing, mumbo jumbo, and flinging of holy water. He believes that every ghost, friendly or otherwise, is a demon in disguise just waiting to possess you. Sorry I wasted my money on this garbage. Don't waste yours.
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Title: Hostage to the Devil: The Possession and Exorcism of Five Contemporary Americans by Malachi Martin ISBN: 006065337X Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: October, 1992 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Haunted: The Incredible True Story of a Canadian Family's Experience Living in a Haunted House by Dorah L. Williams ISBN: 1550023780 Publisher: Dundurn Press, Ltd. Pub. Date: 01 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.99 |
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Title: The Demonologist : The Extraordinary Career of Ed and Lorraine Warren by Gerald Brittle ISBN: 0595246184 Publisher: Backinprint.Com Pub. Date: 13 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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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: Grave's End by Elaine Mercado, Hans Holzer ISBN: 0738700037 Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide, Ltd. Pub. Date: 01 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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