Book opinions

[Brian Jones]

TB Jr. is a very skilled tracker and outdoorsman.

His stories are chock full of fiction though, but inspiring nonetheless in some ways if you understand a lot of it is fiction. But if you read through the books, you'll notice he has trouble keeping track of his tall tales and the stories change and grow with the rewriting.

Plus, I know several instructors from the early days of his school. Tom read a lot of books on subjects such as zen meditation and astral spiritual travelling (Eckankar), and gathered them to practice the things he was reading about, then, next thing they saw, he was teaching it in classes but attributing the teachings to Grandfather, and them claiming same in his books. That's just the tip of the iceberg. Many of his Grandfather stories are direct regurgitations of stories found in Far Eastern myths and stories.

However, they were in awe of his tracking skills. In the early days, these instructors would go to great lengths to hide their trail so they could smoke pot without getting caught by Tom, because he highly disapproved of it. Even then, they said it was buzz kill because the paranoia factor was throuigh the roof, because they expected Tom to walk up on them at any time, which he had done before.

 

[attej]

TB Jr. is a very skilled tracker and outdoorsman.

His stories are chock full of fiction though, but inspiring nonetheless in some ways if you understand a lot of it is fiction. But if you read through the books, you'll notice he has trouble keeping track of his tall tales and the stories change and grow with the rewriting.

IMHO he should just keep it realistic. Im sure it would be intresting enough.

I just finished reading "The Way of the Scout", and even though some of the observations he makes about modern day life are pretty insightfull, the superhuman tales about the mystic order of the scout are quite annoying. Partly the book seems to be an ad for his scouting courses, which he mentiones at the end of the book.

However, I then started browsing through "the Tracker", and it instantly seemed a lot better. The skill level which he obtains seems to be a bit more realistic too, at least thats the impression I have from the first few pages. Its propably because the Tracker was written so early on... (I think it was the first book that he wrote). I suppose every time he has written a new book, he has wanted to add something new and amazing, the end result being pure fiction.