Product Description
A collection of essays, lectures, short stories, and exhortations from the Church of Satan's "Black Pope," whose defiant hedonism and indulgent rituals have sold over a million books--The Satanic Witch, The Satanic Bible, and Satanic Rituals. La Vey was featured in Rolling Stone in September 1991.
Product Details
| Publisher | Feral House |
| ISBN | 0922915113 |
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| Format | Paperback |
| Author | Anton Szandor LaVey |
| EAN | 9780922915118 |
| Label | Feral House |
| Dewey Decimal Number | 133.422 |
| Studio | Feral House |
| Number Of Pages | 147 |
| Title | The Devil's Notebook |
| Publication Date | 2000-04-01 |
| Manufacturer | Feral House |
Customer Reviews
Lavey as a Syndicated ColumnistReview by Cwn_Annwn, 2010-07-26
The Devils Notebook is a collection of short essays by Anton Lavey. I liked The Satanic Bible better than this but it was a decent read. Most of these are very short. Lavey often writes in a very misanthropic way. Because Lavey in spite of his "scary" image was more or less a oddball nerd type of guy I think a lot of what the root of what he was getting at was instead of having a sense of shame or inferiority about being a weirdo or having odd interests was to turn it around on the sheeple and have a elitist attitude and look at your quirks and oddities as a sign of your superiority and if other people don't get it then thats a sign of their inferiority.
Although it never would have happened in a million years for a myriad of reasons even though over all I'm luke warm to the guy I think Lavey would have been an interesting syndicated newspaper columnist. Laveys opinion pieces would certainly have been more entertaining than the phony system approved left, phony system approved right or the token affirmative action black columnist that every major newspaper has one of that only writes about being black. Lavey if he didn't sell out would have made peoples heads spin. He would have offended the uptight conservatives with his anti-Christianity and pro-sexual freedom stuff and he would have offended the feel good liberals with his misanthropic stance on the masses but I know people would have bought newspapers just to read his columns, even if they wouldn't admit it.
It's interesting
Review by Aaron S. Johnson, 2010-04-13
This is an interesting book. It rings alot of truth if you read it with an open mind. Personally I think Mr.Lavey would have been alot of fun to hang out with. You won't be disappointed!
Not required reading, but a great bathroom book. :P
Review by Mindmaster, 2010-03-23
Mostly this book is a rebuttal at most, and an experiment in dark humor and imagery at worst. LaVey discusses everything from the proper attitude in ritual magic to why the bathroom can sometimes be the most sacred place in your home. Like Satan Speaks! this is more of LaVey's personal opinions on various issues which are not addressed in The Satanic Bible or his other works in great detail and it is named accordingly. I'm giving this four stars only because I don't think you HAVE to read it, but if you are a fan then you will certainly enjoy it. Very little of the material within the book refers directly back to his other works so you can easily start with this book even if you haven't read TSB.
A little different
Review by Jessica K. Hill, 2009-09-12
This was not what I expected it to be.
First the Satanic Bible was more a fluent read. I got the Devil's Notebook and it was more of compiled essays and thoughts.
The thoughts and essays themselves are both comical and has a very different view on people, thinking and that sort thing. I have enjoyed reading this book.
I have liked to pick this one off and on because really you don't have to read it from beginning to end, so I read chapter whenever...just sort of picking it out of the contents page.
A good read
Thanks :-)
Some of LaVey's Most Interesting Work
Review by Cheryablinsk70, 2009-07-14
Of all of LaVey's work, though the Satanic Bible is most well known, and arguably the best, this was the one I enjoyed the most. I think that the essays contained in The Devil's Notebook reveal a lot more about LaVey and about Satanism than you can find in any of his other works. This is one of the few books I have found recently that made a noticeable impact in my life.
