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Jonathan Margolis

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Jonathan Margolis is a journalist who writes regularly for the London Evening Standard and the Guardian. He is also a European contributor to Time magazine and the author of five highly successful biographies. During the writing of Uri Geller: Magician or Mystic?, he regularly witnessed firsthand toon meer Geller's startling paranormal capabilities. toon minder

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I received a copy in a Giveaway.

I had two main thoughts about this book. On the one hand is the interesting life of Uri Geller himself and on the other the writer's skill. The former was pretty much lost on me by the lack of the latter.

Page 57 before it even got out of a long list of experiments, page 128 or so before the one fascinating insight into his childhood is even mentioned? An introduction peppered with '(as we shall see later)' type brackets - I mean surely you stop doing that in A Level English essays?

The writer is obviously an excellent journalist but what is a good style for 2,000 words falls apart over 200 pages.

And in this mess we have to gauge what may be an evolutionary movement in the human brain. We are even told of 'others' like Uri. Now there's a story. What we do learn is that over all the things Uri did, he never felt he had any control.
Neither does the writer.
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Daniel_Nanavati | Jul 19, 2015 |
I must admit I thought this book was about how people in the past thought the future would be, but I was wrong. It is instead about what the future will be like from a year 2000 perspective. The book is divided into chapters and each chapter looks at a different subject area. I was surprised at how conservative he was in places, for example saying that houses will stay the same as thats how people like them. Which I found pleasing. But very radical in others, this is the problem with trying to work out how the future will look as something very simple can transform it, something the author brings up throughout the book. The book is about future technology mostly, not about economics, politics or society. An interesting book, even 14 years after it was published and some of it's predictions are already wrong, which I think makes it more interesting not less.… (meer)
 
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