How to Hunt Ghosts : A Practical Guide by Joshua P. Warren
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Book Reviews of How to Hunt Ghosts : A Practical Guide
Book Review: How to hunt for ghosts book.
Summary: 3 Stars
I personally am grateful to PennText for shipping this book to me. I've skimmed over the book and it seems to be okay for a beginner interested in hunting whether ghosts exist or not. The book itself I needed for college and to be truthful I know a little about ghosthunting so I'd probably not buy this spec. book if I hadn't a future book report due in English 100.
Anyways its a good starting point for any beginner, but the reader should know even though this book is informative vaguely enough to give a good idea about the topic itself, it lacks enough info to actually leave questions in a good investigator's mind. Also lack of some information may lead the beginner to believe s/he is doing certain areas of ghosthunting justice when in truth they may have missed several proper and important steps.
Now would I buy another book from PennText? I'm not psychic, but if they would have a product that I've be wanting when the time comes then most likely.
Book Review: Ok for you starting from nothing.
Summary: 3 Stars
This book in my opinion is targeted more towards people who are completely brand new to the idea do paranormal investigation (or ghost hunting). I did a small amount of research online then bought this book before going out on my very first investigation. Everything I would need to know I (a) Already knew or (b) already found online. There were only a few parts in there that explained something more detailed, but other than that, I learned nothing.
If you've just decided to go ghost hunting and you haven't done any research on the topic, this would be a good book to start with, but if you already had an idea about equipment & techniques, this is nothing but a review.
Book Review: A Contrary Opinion
Summary: 2 Stars
This book does really little to shatter the notion that paranormal research is anything but wacky in the eyes of accepted science. The science covered in the book is left pretty much only half explained and presented in a more "trust me, because I have been doing this for a really long time" attitude.The biggest disappointment was the lack of the "how to" in the book all together. Most of the tips and ideas are nothing short of common sense. Also, the discussion about the equipment was far too brief and not once included a "why we use this" to tie it back to the previously explained science. If you are a beginning paranormal researcher, you would not be served well from this book in getting your feet wet.
The only thing I found reasonably sound from this book was the classification of the evidence and the weight that is placed on each catagory. The author also has some interesting ideas on the sources of the ghostly phenomenon. This leads me to believe that the author does understand the basic science, but just didn't translate it very well to his text.
I just felt that the entire book was more a validation of the first three words, "Ghosts are real" rather than a practical guide. It is a horrible attempt at trying to legitimize the field.
Book Review: A Reading Dry Spell
Summary: 2 Stars
This book has proven to be a very dry read. There are a lot of theories that seem to be the author pushing his own ideas rather than citing any basis for the information. I would like to see more how to in this "How To" guide and less dry theory after dry theory. I do not recommend this book as an instructional guide. If you just like to read about the paranormal then this book should suffice but as a how to... I would not recommend it.Book Review: Worst Ghost hunt book ever written
Summary: 1 Stars
How to Hunt Ghosts : A Practical Guide is not well written at all. Joshua acts like he forgot to take his ADD medication has he repeated gets off topic thoughout the whole book. He can be in a chapter about spirts and let his mouth open to flood the pages full of stuff about ESP. What the hell? When did I buy a book about ESP.
He does way more than enough promo plugging for his paranormal group. Mentioning it once is nice, or mentioning an outing is great... but lay off after that.... we all know how BIG you are Josh...
Finally... I don't suggest this book for anything but reading material at the toilet... maybe if you run out of toilet paper and you bought it used, you can rip pages out to substitute for your lack proper paper... at least you'd get your money's worth out of it that way.
Don't buy it... if you buy it burn it...! It's a waste...
Try... Speak With The Dead:Seven methods of Afterlife communication by Konstantinos, he is a little more new age about it but, he will get you results and stay on topic.