Do What Thou Wilt: A Life of Aleister Crowley, (Paperback)

from gbsallery

Well researched, with copious source notes, and well written. As with any biography, the success or failure as a book depends very much on the subject material, and in this respect it is Crowley himself who fails to satisfy (a surprise, for a sexual magician). Whilst Sutin tries hard to be even-h...

from kukulaj

I've read a bit around occult topics but didn't know much at all about Crowley. This was a great book to get a reasonably complete high level survey of Crowley's life and work. It's quite chronological. It touches on Crowley's thinking but never goes very deep. We don't learn much about where Cro...

from aadyer

A long, rather academic study which although only just readable, is not accessible to the lay reader. This isn't a volume that will allow the starter in this subject area to feel as though they can understand Crowley or his motivations or even the Magic that he purports to perform. Good on detail...