Castaneda's Journey: The Power and the Allegory Book

This book was much better than I anticipated. Not at all a dry exposition on how "magic doesn't exist", it instead provides a explanation why Castaneda's writings were accepted as an academic thesis: they fit right into the paradigm adhered to by the Anthropology department at UCLA. He also provides a very plausible psychological analysis of Castaneda as a lonely, confused man unable to deal with normal relationships. His description of Castaneda's attitudes towards women was validated by later accounts (Amy Wallace) of dysfunctional and abusive relationships with several women, resulting in at least 4 suicides after his death.