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  • beatthedrum posted an update 4 years, 8 months ago

    A personal post this one, but you will all relate no doubt. I ordered two of JPF’s books around 14 weeks ago…one from Amazon (along with a book from Anthony Sutton) and one from Lulu. Amazon had ‘returned to sender’ the first one – Covert Wars and Breakaway Civilizations – and they had to start again, then completely lost track of the book and have been useless in the extreme at ‘finding’ it and giving me a delivery date. Needless to say, Amazon had made zero effort to contact me re the sending back of the first book and the late delivery of the second one…I had to hound them to find out anything at all. Covert Wars did arrive today. At least it made it! The Anthony Sutton book is still in the wind, and Amazon’s tracking is useless…they can’t tell me anything re its whereabouts. The second JPF book, Microcosm and Medium is, of course, coming from Lulu…it too is late, and once again I simply hope it arrives before I die of boredom thanks to the 18-month lockdown here in Manila. I started acquiring the JPF catalog – I now have nearly 20 titles – in May of last year, and apart from these last 2 books, all others arrived on schedule, in less than 3 weeks!. I am now using these latest transactions as a barometer of just how bad things have become over the past 18 months. I do hope the other two books duly arrive here, as I can then at least bury myself in some good reading for a week or so, which is way better than being out on the streets here where one can be shot by cops! 🙁

    • 18 months ?
      And it’s a for real lockdown there ?
      Hang in there.

      • Best of luck with the books! And hang in there — burying oneself in good reading can do wonders.

        • Supply chain is failing. I’ve been try to acquire everything I think I will need for the coming year, right down to extra underwear for us. Now JPF books are moving up to the front of my list.

          • Those wait times are extreme for sure. Lulu, if I recall, often prints per order, so lead times are indeed longer than what you’d usually expect. I’m not excusing those lead times. I ordered The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings books from Folio over in the UK some time back, it took about 90 days or so before I got a shipping confirmation. I feel like it took 4mo to get the books. Not exactly apples to apples as far as reading material goes, haha.

            • If I may, I would propose to you (or anyone serious in reading his works) to start at the beginning, i.e., with his Giza Death Star book, and work your way through them in chronological order. In this way, you see how he (Farrell) will “till the soil” for analogical thinking, and how he makes connections. I can assure you it will bear fruit reading them in this order. His list for the order of books written can be found under the “community” tab, and clicking “about Joseph P. Farrell”…but, needless to say, however you read them, enjoy!

                • 100% agree with this. The only book out of order I read was Microcosms and Medium. It was too highly regarded to not dive in once it came out, haha.

                    • Oh I do the same with new books as they come out, I greedily devour them for the juicy details…and then go back in order …

                        • I cannot say how many times I have done this with authors too perhaps “dangerous” to mention( especially here), one delights in the novel novel( so to speak), but I have indeed found that reading all the books, from first print to last, and reading them again 3 times over, grants, at least for me, some surpassing understanding. And, not a few most strange and intriguing dreams…

                    • you can always try at alibis. a lot of the books are used, but things seem to arrive within the period they outline