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A very interesting book, but oddly flawed. The author repeatedly got bogged down in narrating the details of the occult ceremonies Parsons researched or attempted, well past what the casual reader would want to know. Had he done the same thing in the sections on rocket research, the book would have been hundreds of pages longer, and deadly dull. Other than that, it was an interesting insight into the live of a very eccentric man. Still, it never quite got inside his head in a way that made sense. It left me with the impression that even the author didn't quite understand Parsons, a brilliant engineer and explosives expert who veered off into what might or might not have been madness.