It doesn't seem that there are any interesting conversations about Colin Wilson going on on this forum. The first book of Wilson's that I bought was The...
Hello new member, I must apologise for my part in the grammer and spelling mistakes in some of this forums messages. You see, we are not all native english...
The Outsider Religion & The Rebel Beyond The Outsider Ritual in the Dark God of the Labarinth Necessary Doubt The Philosophers Stone The Glass Cage The Black...
I finished reading Wilson's "The Craft of the Novel" yesterday and Wilson's reading stuns me more than ever. I was quite surprised at the number of serious...
Greetings, I thought it would be germane to the list if I mentioned that I have been composing a string quartet based on Colin Wilson's philosophy and...
... see ... spelling ... Before you ask how I got so many, I've been reading Colin's work for over 30 years: Access to inner worlds Afterlife Alien dawn Atlas...
Unless I've missed it, I don't think anyone on this group has posted their thoughts on the latest "Spider World" book, Shadowland. To those who have read it,...
I posted my views on Shadowland before. It is quite different from the previous volumes. It has a lot more whimsicality; nature spirits, etc. This is not ...
Erm...I just wanted to say a few thing's about the crux of Wilson's life! Why he wrote and researched all that he did? He did it, it seems' because of the the...
Erm...I just wanted to say a few thing's about the crux of Wilson's life! Why he wrote and researched all that he did? He did it, it seems' because of the the...
dear all talking of music, last year Colin contributed to the 'sons of TC Lethbridge' project, this has received very good reviews from 'the guardian' to the ...
My main offerings at the moment are a Wilson bibliography, and a basic biography, as well as an introduction, which is probably the best starting place for...
Hello all, I'm a new member to the group, and after reading some of the "complaints" about the lack of real discussion here (true or not), I thought I'd chime...
I discovered Colin Wilson while browsing the occult section in a used book store. It was "Mysteries". I bought the book and by the time I had read the chapter...
I'm glad to see that there's been some activity here recently. However, I had to draw the line today when I saw that Steve Cockerell had uploaded the complete...
well said John. Has any one been able to get hold of 'Diaries of a Metaphisician' (sex diaries of Gerard Sorme, Man without a Shadow) whatever edition or name...
Hi I saw a copy on ebay.uk yesterday or go to: http://www.abebooks.co.uk/ which has plenty simon well said John. ... -> ... Lexmark ... Canada. ... -> ... --...
I discovered Colin Wilson in the first year of university when a friend of mine living in the same part of the halls of residence was telling me about a book...
I first saw The Outsider in the school library when I was 15 (1994), read it as a history book more than a philosophical one, even though I was attracted to...
I was either fourteen or fifteen. Sometime in the seventies. I was dithering around The Science Fiction Bookshop in St Anne's Court in Soho with a friend. The...
I was watching the mini-series of Jack The Ripper that starred Michael Caine and Lewis Collins back in 1988 here in Australia when a mate of mine at the time...
Hollywood again. Previous mentions I made to films before - links for example, were to be seen in the context of previous postings of course. Predator, to...
I read Dennis Potter's review [of Adrift in Soho]as Robert Hogg mentioned it in his last posting. It is churlish and reveals more about DP than about the...
"Perhaps some critics are still guilty of a certain snobbishness: they can't stand the thought of the autodidact. I would be interested to hear other views." ...
Thanks, Robert, for letting us know about the Potter review. I was a bit surprised to see him attacking Colin with such vehemence. In fact, I had always seen...
Hi John; accept my apologies for the delay. Perhaps too many preoccupations with Planet Shenanigan. You make some excellent points as always. It sems somehow...