Richard Scarry's The Little Red Hen Book

To be frank with everyone, I just read it because this work has food for thought in its rather... paranoic and delusional approach to the subject matter. The writer is (or rather was), and I quote:

a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland [...] the Chevalier de St. Germain, he is attached to the European Council of Princes as the Jacobite Historiographer Royal [...] Conservation Counsultant to the Fine Art Trade Guild [...] A Knight Templar of St. Anthony and Prior of the Sacred Kindred of St. Columba.



talk about paranoia, this guy beat Stephan Hawking, and in the first page no less. Wow. Respect indeed.

So anyway, what's the whole book about? Some douchemonkey historian, decided on talking about the Grail and the Ring... you know:



Ring. and



Grail.

So anyway, this work... I like it, because of the ideas it uses to try and get the point through about these two belonging to some tribe called the Annunaki (good grief), among other things.

Although I sound like a prick right now, what with the obvious GIFs and the way I'm bashing the author, I commend him for a few things:

1) the research he actually did do to justify his idea. It does allow him to keep his "conspiracy theorist" card.

2) His interesting take on pop culture characters from fairytales like Count Dracula, the Pixies, the Werewolves, and others. Although for what its worth, his Dracula depiction is fairly decent - its believable to say the least.

3) Its a decent read for those who love Norse legends, such as the Ring of the Nebulung.

My personal favourite portion in the whole book:

What is equally surprising, if not discourteous, is the fact that one so often finds copies of Tolkien's works on bookshop shelves containing childish pulp fiction. In reality, however, The Lord of the Rings constitutes a modern rendering of the world's greatest mythological tradition and should rightly be placed with the classics of the genre, from Homer to Malory. The fact that the late J.R.R. Tolkein was a writer of our modern time does not detract form the issue that classic mythology is, in any event, timeless. the fact that his work is far form wholly unique does not detract from its value. On the contrary, it has an enhanced value because it is based upon qualified of the most ancient kind - preserving it for future generations within a modern market arena which has, for the most part, forsaken the more archaic root material because it is not necessarily conducive to everyday reading

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so basically:



.... true. I do agree with him.

So basically, you'll have a crazy person, but with an interesting approach towards books, nursery rhymes, the origins of some things, and an obvious bashing of the church (rolls eyes, growls) God...

So yeah... happy reading.