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From: gjerawlins@watdaisy.UUCP (Gregory J.E. Rawlins)
Newsgroups: net.books
Subject: Re: Colin Wilson
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Date: Thu, 21-Feb-85 17:27:34 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 21 17:27:34 1985
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In article <274@nmtvax.UUCP> cooley@nmtvax.UUCP (Michael D. Cooley) writes:
>Does anyone out there in net-land have information on Colin Wilson?
>I have read 'The Outsider,' 'The Space Vampires,' 'The Mind Parasites,'
>and 'The Philosophers Stone'. Are there any more books out? Comments,
>slander, libel?
>
>	- thaedeus zefuldar

	The only two others that i have read are _The Killer_ and
_The Occult_ .  _The killer_ is a very upsetting novel about a
psychotic rapist/murderer/scum (not to be *too* harsh :-) which
Wilson did to see if he could get into the mind_set of such a
person, he does a very good treatment of the killer much in the
vein of _The Boston Strangler_ or _Helter Skelter_, it's really
upsetting even though it's a novel and not based on any person.
	_The Occult_ shows Wilson's other side. It's a scholarly
treatment of the role of the occult in human existence; it's also
quite good.
	All in all Wilson is one strange bird.
		greg

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Gregory Rawlins CS Dept.,U.Waterloo,Waterloo,Ont.N2L3G1 (519)884-3852
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