Reviews for On your own

The average rating for On your own based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2011-09-14 00:00:00 Jeffrey Saunders This book was on the shelf of my grandmother's house when I was a child. It may have influenced me more than any other text in or out of print, and has acquainted me with all manner of things bizarre, paranormal, and futurist. The woman who channeled Franz Liszt's symphonies from beyond the grave, the guy who sold the Brooklyn Bridge, Spring-Heeled Jack, the Chinese Chess-Playing Automaton Hoax or hundreds of other fantastic, bite-size tales - all of these and more I have read and re-read and then read again and they have taken up permanent residence in my memories.

Review # 2 was written on 2013-08-12 00:00:00 Toni Caceres In the 70s, ghosts still existed and many of the stories of the supernatural presented here seemed, at the least, plausible. We had a copy of this on the bookshelf when I was a kid and I read it cover to cover and back again a few times. Of course, most of the stories have dated in a somewhat delightful manner -- especially the section dealing with predictions of the future, which has repeatedly failed to deliver me the comfortable life in an underwater city it promised -- but I'm not giving it five stars just for nostalgic purposes. The historical adventure stories were snappy and would still fire up kids' imaginations today, and even as a fully-grown rationalist the story of the Faces of Belmez still gives me the willies. Keep an eye out in your local thrift stores.