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Summary: A very powerful and spiritually believable book
Review: I bought this book on the recommendation of a friend. I found that I could not put it down. The story was exciting as well as being a great adventure. A spiritual powerhouse for those seeking the true meaning of life. I highly recommend this book for anyone seeking answers to questions about life and what it's all about! As an avid reader of spiritual writings, I found this book to hold many similarities to facts I've learned from other books (non-fiction). Although it is a fictional story, it holds many truths, not only spiritually, but scientifically as well.
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Summary: Dreadfull
Review: This book is a poorly written mish-mash of cheap fiction and misused 'scientific' concepts. Not only could I not finish reading it because of nausea, but I also threw it in the trash...
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Summary: Loved it. It made me notice coinsidences more.
Review: The Celestine Prophesy is a must read for everyone seeking a deeper meaning in life. It is written as a novel so its reading is really easy. I read it in one go. It made me notice coinsidences and try to explain synchonistic events. But most important, it made me feel confortable with myself and encouraged me to try to find harmony.
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Summary: One thing must be said about this book...
Review: It causes quite a stirring, emotional controversy!! The proof is in all these reviews. It obviously provoked enough thought and passion from every person above and below (on this list that is - not on the spiritual plane...) that they bothered to 1) finish reading the book and 2)share their thoughts on it. I think that is quite an accomplishment in itself. I didn't hate it and I can't say it changed my life... but I do think it is a great springboard for spiritual conversation and philosophical debate. You can disagree with the ideas, but it doesn't make it a horrible book. I think it encourages you to think about what you believe in. No book can give you the answers to that ... but some do promote thought. Shakti Gawain's books are really wonderful like that. I highly recommend "Living in the Light".
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Summary: Poorly written, simplistic and utterly boring
Review: Thank God I only borrowed this book! The story is lame. The writing is awful. The philosophy has been done better elsewhere. Please don't waste your time and money.
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Summary: Pilgrim's Progress for the New Ager
Review: The Celestine Prophecy is a loopy exercise in paranoid amiability. It's simplicity and sincerity remind me of Mozart's The Magic Flute. The bromides and "insights" are the point here, certainly not the storytelling which is execrable, or the plotting which is risible.
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Summary: WHEN THE STUDENT IS READY THE TEACHER WILL COME
Review: It's sad to read the reviews of those who turned the pages of this wonderful book but obviously failed to READ it. There is wisdom here. Redfield has coupled Indiana Jones with a gang of Greek philosophers. I believe that his chapter on the value of scientific method is right on target and lampoons some of the overblown aspects of our modern world. There is food for thought here for all of us who yearn for more out of life than mundane worldly existence. Read it with an open mind and light heart for best results.
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Summary: Great Read!!
Review: I thought that this book was great. It takes a really closed-minded person not to be able to appreciate its content. Redfield has written a book that is both easy to read and can make sense if you allow yourself to think. The fact that a coincidence is never really a coincidence is so true. If you think about all the times you have run into an old friend and something material comes out of this "chance" meeting, things start to make sense. The book takes clear direction after a slightly slow beginning, but was so enthralling that I finished it in a week. It was great! Even if you read it and don't like it, you will pick up some interesting little tidbits of information.
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Summary: New Age mind candy par excellence.
Review: Mr Redfield has succeeded in giving the smug intellectual and yuppie crowd the kind of mind candy upon which they thrive. His book steps in to fill the void formerly occupied by common sense and religious conviction in the lives of the above mentioned group. He is to be commended for writing an entertaining book. One should not take it for more than what it is. An adventure story. F. Laureano
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Summary: A jumbled mess of low caliber
Review: This book was recommended by a friend whose opinion I value highly, so I had high hopes for it. This book can be taken in a number of different ways. Unfortunately, most of them fail. If you take it as a fiction adventure, it is third rate, at best, with lame prose that appears to be cranked out by a sixth grader for a creative writing assignment, and a plot that is so full of cliches that it is laughable. The characters are monotonous and underdeveloped. They are, in fact, interchangeable. If you take it as science fiction, it falls short of the type of well-developed, rich world that we've come to expect from the genre. If you take it as a literal description of the world -- an interpretation it tries to encourage by throwing in little bits of nearly correct science -- well, it's just plain kooky, with too much new age mumbo jumbo to be taken seriously. The book spends significant time trying to convince us of the importance of coincidences, without pondering the real question of how many similar events go unnoticed because they don't fit our notion of what a coincidence should be. And all the talk of visible energy is too silly to tolerate. If you take the book as a metaphor for personal interactions, it seems to have a little bit of merit, but if that is the point of the book, why wrap all the other garbage around it? If you want a practical book on personal interaction with similar themes, and without all the new age silliness, read "How To Make Love All The Time" by Barbara De Angelis. And if you need an excuse to appreciate the beauty of life more,just go out and do it, and put the juvenile fiction away. Overall, there doesn't seem to be a point to reading this book.
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