Buy the paperback. It looks great on a shelf next to your serious Crowley books, and it serves as a reminder that the gods laugh, so you should too.
The premise is absurdly simple: A fictional, cynical, chain-smoking Rabbi named Lamed Ben Clifford explains the dense spiritual system of the Qabalah (specifically the Hermetic tradition) using bad puns, turkey sandwiches, and toilet humor. chicken qabalah pdf
Most Qabalah texts (like Dion Fortune's The Mystical Qabalah or Israel Regardie's works) are dense. A newcomer who downloads a PDF of those books will likely give up by page ten. DuQuette’s book, however, is readable. It is funny. It uses diagrams of chickens standing on the Sephiroth. Thus, the PDF is the first thing a newbie searches for. Buy the paperback
The book is structured into ten main chapters that distill ancient wisdom into modern analogies, such as explaining the four Qabalistic worlds through the lens of a screenplay. Most Qabalah texts (like Dion Fortune's The Mystical
If you read the Chicken Qabalah PDF purely for laughs, you will miss the magic. But if you read it with a highlighter, you will walk away understanding 80% of what the "Royal Qabalah" tries to teach in 500 pages.