As you can tell from the title of Freeman’s latest blog post –
Chameleon Book Chronicles: A Truly Awful Book?
– he’s feeling glum about low sales of his I Ching translation. Actually, we should all feel glum about low sales of his book, as it’s remarkably good one. I wrote about it once here, and to my shame have a half-finished review of the whole thing sitting in my draft posts. Meanwhile various people at the ICC have adopted it with enthusiasm, and with reason. It’s concise, lucid, and with some excellent insights that are very useful in divination.
If Freeman had lots of orders and lots of indignant returns, you’d know it was a Truly Awful Book. Since he actually has just a select handful of very enthusiastic purchasers, his real problem is Truly Awful Marketing. (Or possibly no marketing at all.) As he neglects to mention in his post (!), you can read more, get a downloadable sample, and order your own copy from ChameleonBook.com. (Amazon links: paperback, Kindle edition. More recent author blog here.)
I Ching book, Zhouyi, Yijing
I bought it! I was intrigued by the name–and like all different forms of the I Ching, so I decided to send for it.It arrived unobtrusively in a plain wrapper.With an old-world chameleon on the cover.
I liked it too.
Unfortunately, I cannot refer to it now, as it was in my home when it burned–though I believe *it* did not burn, it is back there with everything else–locked up, until we clear our belongings out.But I look forward to seeing it again.;-)