Reviews for Animal crackers

The average rating for Animal crackers based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-09-11 00:00:00 Karli Quinlan Another part of my bedtime rereads of paranormal books of my youth. I really dug this book when I was a kid, and was looking forward to rereading it. Unfortunately, I did that early this year and never took any notes, so here I am trying to mentally recreate whatever I can about the experience (which probably occurred during the height of the first wave of Covid and following my losing my job)....so, this may be a rather weak review, I state apologetically... Essentially, this is yet another tour through the usual "unusual suspects" - lake monsters, giant wildcats, big bird and bird men, black dogs, BHM (Big Hairy Monsters aka Bigfoot) and the like. The only difference comes in lumping them all into one book and, with their backgrounds in British prehistoric sites/standing stones and the like, the Bord's making an argument that perhaps these creatures are not real and physical, or only temporarily physical, and more of a manifestation of the witness' mind as it interacts with posited Earth Energies/Ley Lines. All very 1970s hippie/Caravan/New Age, of course, but as a kid I found this a very useful alternative to the endless, fruitless pursuit of actual animals that seemed to lack the capacity for breeding populations and food sources. If nothing else, it rang some mental chimes and so I give it credit for that. Of course, they can't *prove* anything - and no one should really be expecting them to - so it becomes another theory on the pile....

Review # 2 was written on 2017-06-01 00:00:00 Russell Cartledge That cover brings back delighted memories of leaving the library, clutching this tome, going back and forth between the menacing, red-eyed representatives of the cryptids within and the back cover, a wall-paper of newspaper headlines about monster sightings. A thorough and well-written book, although I never bought into (and still don't) the mystical explanations that crop up at the end. That said, even when the book is all the way down its rabbit hole (Bigfoot hole?), it remains sober and at least vaguely scientific in its argument. Time to track this one down.