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i was given a copy yesterday, is it any good?

I've never read it but FourWinds seems to think very highly of it...

http://www.megalithomania.com/show_review.php?book_id=24

"The musician is a Healer, a Dealer and a Mother-loving seed bearer. 2 years ago, I stood in the great Avebury henge with Michael Dames, the Visionary author of the Occult classics The Avebury Cycle, The Silbury Treasure and Mythic Ireland. His writing is wondrous spectalur revelation, he's the Lester Bangs of Neolithic discovery, right? I was screaming all this at the guy. He'd written the first two books in 1977 and 1978 and there's enough discovery there to last an archaeologist 1000 lifetimes (and the rest). I shouted out that there was so much Vision in those first 2 books I bet he didn't remember one quarter of what he'd written. Dames is a great looking guy - he turned around beaming a huge grin and said, 'Right! You're totally right. I had to re-read them recently for the first lecture I'd given in years. And it was like reading someone else's work.' So it WAS Vision, I screamed. Yes, it truly was! Dames is about 50 now and he's so full of light - the last thing he said to me as we parted was about the Musicians. The Musicians are the discoverers. The Musicians are the way forward. Michael Dames told me I was the next step and handed me the baton... And now, I am the MC5. I am Ash Ra Tempel. I am the first 5 Funkadelic LPs out of their sleeves and being played 10 times a day each. I am the Living giving breathing Everlasting first." (from "A Week In The Field of Julian Cope, published in the Ur-Pagan, A Propheteering Companion)

I really don't think you could get a more glowing recommendation.

The thoery behind it seems a little invented and unsubstantiated. That being said, the benefit of the book is that it helps you think of Avebury and surrounds as a complex of inter-related monuments all working together. Kind of a cool idea but I'm not sure that I buy all or any of it.

Definitely worth reading, but don't take it too seriously.