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Summary: The first spirutual book which i read fully.
Review: This is the book with a proper blend of normal story and spiritual thinking.The script is well written which keeps you going on and on till you finish. I really enjoyed reading it. Some of the concepts explained in the book have already been implemented by certain Spiritual Healers Associations in India. It's worth a read.
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Summary: Literature? Whatever.
Review: First of all, I have no idea what the hell this book is doing listed under "Literature and Fiction." It should be under a category like, say, "New Age Pulp." I did actually read this book, though I don't know what posessed me to buy it at the time.Setting the plot iself aside (which is awful, but we're setting it aside, aren't we?), James Redfield gives a bad name to writers everywhere. His flow of narrative is hopelessly stilted, his word-usage archaic, and his DIOLOGUE--my god!--I've read better stuff by grade-schoolers. That doilogue would be considered too ridiculously verbose, stilted, and strangely infantile if it were straight narrative. Don't even think about reading this. Tom Clancy novels are more believeable.
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Summary: A very dissapointing read.It was really quite awful
Review: I expected much more from this book. It was written in a very juvenile tone, and the story itself was quite bad. I could not even bring myself to finish the book, for it was torturous to read on.
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Summary: Bad writing Bad Cheesy Plot Devices and Bad construction
Review: There are lots of problems with this book, but the fundamental problem is that it is supposed to be a worldwide phenomenon, but he uses only western Christian history to organize his thoughts. The history of the eastern world is completely different, and often several hundred years in advance of western civ.
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Summary: If this book changes your life, what else did you read?
Review: From such a bestseller I expected at least mediocre content, but it proved to be below that. There are no characters in this book, no dialogues, and almost no plot. At least not in the firts two thirds of the book, 'cause I couldn't force myself to read any further. From page to page I kept hoping for some improvement but it didn't came. The ideas offered through "Insights" are not developed enough... already seen... cheap psychology... They are not worth reading the book, and the wrapping around those ideas is by far worse.
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Summary: Very important...
Review: Okay, perhaps the story isn't any more insightful than the latest occurances on Days of Our Lives. Who cares. The purpose of this book isn't to be a literary revelation... It's a spiritual one. Take a moment and read the reviews that follow(or at least as many as you can). You'll notice that people either love it or hate it. If you read "The Celestine Prophecy" closely enough, you'll know why this is so...and that reason is crucially important for all of us to understand. Let's keep things in perspective here...Look at the nuber of copies sold worldwide! Look at the number of reviews presented here! This book is having major implications around the world,and at an extremely appropriate time. It has given people an appreciation for themselves, their environment, and the people around them, and as far as I'm concerned, there can never be anything wrong with that. My life was changed forever by reading this book...as well as millions of others' have been. Above all, this is an important work for the spiritual to reaffirm themsleves, the lost to find hope, and most critically essential to the lot of us in between.
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Summary: A must for any collection
Review: This story is well written. The extremists will have you believe that you are suposed to change religions because of it. If anything, you'll examine the insights in perspective to your own life, you may come to some very interesting conclusions and maybe even form a few questions. The insights are to highten ones spirituality awareness, not change religions. As you go through the story, keep an opend mind and enjoy. You may find yourself relating to some aspects of the book.
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Summary: My mother read this?
Review: The thing that's surprising me so much about this book is that my mother, and each of my friends' mothers, have read and raved about it. My mother was on me for years to read it, and I finally did just recently, and blech. And yet, I still felt wonderment at the idea of her truly pondering any "meaningful coincidence" in her life. I guess if one's at the point in a spiritual path where this book properly applies, then I'm happy that it aided development in some way like any book can. But I found the writing hideous and that smug tone behind it thoroughly overbearing. Redfield acts like he's uncovered these tremendous secrets about life and God--like God has a password or something--and I didn't read anything in there that I hadn't already mulled over by the time I was thirteen. Many of us most likely take for granted the spiritual distance, so to speak (what an oxymoron), that we've been granted, so this work comes across as much more idiotic to ourselves than to others. (Did that just come across as thoroughly smug and overbearing?) I couldn't wait to finish it personally. Now I'm reading "A Wrinkle in Time" with my 6 month old, and everyday we both get a strong dose of "A Course in Miracles" (especially him by chewing on it).
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Summary: Read beyond the words and the book is excellent
Review: To all you ignorant narrow-minded people out there who said "its a dumb story", maybe it is a bad story in how it is written, but its background meaning is what the key to the book is and it is definitely worth reading...
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Summary: An important book.
Review: No this book was not written for intellectuals. No this book was not written for monks. This book was written for the average person alive during this decade. I have to disagree with all the negative reviews for the book saying to go read about buddhism instead..though I would suggest reading aboutBuddhism along with it. Someone said Buddhism is the most profound attempt to explain existance? First of all this book has nothing to do with "explaining" existance..and how the hell would an explination of existance help you in your life? If you want a good book on explaining existance.. an AWESOME book..read "The Book of Lies" by Aliester Crowley., I definitely think "The Celestine Prophecy:An Adventure" is an important book. A lot of the bad reviews suprised me..
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