Yes, the books are nonsense. I remember one that had 'a melancholy youth' for the Rider Waite Page of Swords, which clearly depicts a person in the grip of paranoia. (I did find one book that was mostly all right.)
What you need, especially if you use Tarot 'not for entertainment only,' is your meanings for the deck you are using. There are hundreds of decks, all kinds of them, from puerile to banal to creepy to dopey, from brilliant to inspiring to analytical to brainstorming. There are ...
