An Author who should be a star on Audible!

Would you listen to The Mind Parasites again? Why?

Absolutely!
This is one of my favourite books

What did you like best about this story?

The intrigue and author's skill at interweaving retro and futuristic elements.

Have you listened to any of Raphael Corkhill’s other performances? How does this one compare?

Have not listened to any other examples - but this is good, and engaging.

Any additional comments?

Colin Wilson is an author who could be featured far more in the audio-book genre. The Occult, Mysteries and many of his novels would be astounding audio content. Not to mention the 'Outsider' a book still in print after 60 years!

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Very much of its period, with ideas that are dated

There was a time when Colin Wilson was a must read for any aficionado of science fiction, he also wrote about criminology and the breaking of taboos, there is even a movie a very b movie named Lifeforce based on Space Vampires, the book was better even if the name was terrible.

Mind Parasites suffers of with the same affliction, a terrible name with an interesting story that is very much written in the style of H. P. Lovecraft this being the reason that it is still a good story, the philosophy is very dated it talks of racial memory and the sea of shared consciousness, and the infinite expanse of the human mind, some are influences of the racial ideas left by the fascist and communist of the period and some are the experimentation with drugs the sixties had fallen for, LSD was culpable of the expanded filling of very limited consciousness, and the belief that folding the mind into colorful patterns was like folding space and time just because it felt that way. Culture and race were very much interchangeable at that time so culture was described as race, there is one disparaging comment about race in the book, but it feels glaringly notorious to a person of my period and I am not a PC person by any stretch of the imagination.

The plot is well constructed but the amount of suppositions and speculation makes it impossible to maintain coherence, we are thrown from one theory to another, from one speculation to the next and all have the same value as truth as next or the next, making the narration feverish with information and possibilities but not grounded on any one idea just constant speculation.

Interesting to revisit but dated in so many ways.

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