A review by sakusha
I Ching: The Book of Change by John Minford

challenging hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective slow-paced

3.0

Minford’s book is large, with two parts: one called the book of wisdom, and one called the oracle. They say pretty much the same things, but the book of wisdom part is longer because it includes extensive interpretations of each hexagram. 

The divination instructions were confusing to me. I thought I had it figured out, but after I got my coin tosses and wrote down my hexagram, I tried doing the same coin tosses on a website and it gave me a different hexagram. For a shorter and easier to understand version of the I Ching, check out David Hinton’s translation, although that version seems to prioritize political correctness over accuracy.

I went into the divination with a hopeful open mind, only to conclude that if there was any validity to this, you should get the same answer when asking the same question. But that doesn’t happen (I tried both online and in real life). It is totally based on chance.