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Summary: This book is HORRIBLE
Review: This book redefines bad. The author, James Redfield, writes as though he had just graduated from grade 2! How many times does he have to use the word 'intense'? Everyone looks at him 'intensely'. The main character is utterly shocked and surprised by even the most predictable scenarios - in short, he is a total moron, just like anyone who enjoys this book. Possibly the worst literary achievement of this decade - and that says something for the millions of people who love this book
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Summary: An inspiring book for readers on a spiritual journey
Review: James Redfield expertly tells a tale that unearthsnine "truths" that facilitate the reader's journeyto spiritual enlightenment. Written in a delightful mystery format, you will find yourself learning and reinforcing your spiritual growth while following the intense journey of a fellow spiritual traveller. This insightful book requires a receptive mind and spirit. Pick it up today -- if you're not instantly mesmerized, give it a brief rest. When you feel hungry for spiritual wisdom, revisit your bookshelf and try it again. "When the student is ready, the teacher will appear."
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Summary: Great read- for some.
Review: Reading over the reviews I thought it should be noted thatthere is a completely blatant fact that sums up this book which isgetting both 10's and 1's. It's simply not for everyone. While I enjoyed the book it is first of all not written well, nor are the insights based on the intellectual principles of most philosophy. This is a book for Intuitive-Feelers, not Thinkers. As for those who insist on thinking this is a cultish book I can only remind you this is a book of FICTION. The text never broke the fictionous wall proclaiming this is how reality is. It's an option and an opinion Redfield himself may not truly stand for. I personally think that books as such should be encouraged rather then flamed on some local internet channel. Perhaps what will follow are more writers taking the courage to go into a spiritual depth and share their own, unique perspectives. When we ALL compare notes and take some from everyone is when I think the answers we long for are truly going to be found. If you don't like the ideas- write a book yourself. The more paridigms out there the better..
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Summary: Sad.
Review: Despite the negative reviews here and elsewhere,I read this book because it was recommended to meby someone whose opinion I respect.
I couldn't help but be impressed by how well this book has done. Are people really so starved for whatever one would expect to gain from religion that they think the answer is to be found here? All I found in this book were nine "truths" that read like tired, rehashed, oversimplified versions of things the average person should have enough brains to figure out. Right now, the question on my mind is whether this book is a symptom of a greater problem. Do people bother to think these things over for themselves anymore? Add to that that the writing is simply horrible. I've seen reviews here that claim that the quality of the writing is unimportant -- interesting how nearly all of these come from people who loved the book. I disagree with that assessment. If Redfield insists on presenting his warmed-over ideas in novel form, the least he could do is write a halfway-decent story with characters that we care about. As it was, I came away with the distinct impression that none of it -- including the conclusions Redfield very obviously means us to draw -- was real.
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Summary: Thank you Inca
Review: My inner self asked me to inject some sami (light energy inKechua language) into this pool of thoughts. As you read these lines,you will feel an opening gate to the living energy of Inca. Taste it, digest it and make use of it. I have asked my mesa to guide you on this path. And my sincere wishes will create the frequency you need to find this gate. All of us search for spiritual guidence. TCP was a major stepping stone on my behalf. The frequency TCP has put me in, carried me to the Andes to spend informative days by Inca priests. I sincerely hope you all touch to the soul of this book. It offers the reader an energy vacuum that will allign you back with the universal oneness. Once you put the information into use, your senses will be more open, you will be able to use your subconscioussness. This itself will add you another 7 senses to reach to other dimensions. Familiar to anyone? TCP is a key.
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Summary: We are cutting down trees in order to read this?
Review: For my high school English class we were required to read anovel written in the 1990's. Hearing all the hype about TCP, I decidedto pick up a copy. After having read such works as Dante's Inferno and Don Quixote, I was thouroughly disgusted by having to read such a horrible book. The writing is at a third grade level, the characters shallowly and poorly developed, and the plot so utterly contrived that it draws parallels to the movie "Congo". The message, while containing some bite-sized, superficial truth to it, is no more than a commercial ploy. Anyone with half a brain has already realized the truths Redfield attempts to put forth. If James Redfield wants to write, he ought to try adventure stories for kids. He could even learn a thing or two from R.L. Stine. The fact that this book is so popular only illustrates the tragic condition our society is in. If Redfield is worried about global conciousness and harmony with the environment, he wouldn't be writing all these crappy books that require the destruction of the rainforests. If anyone would like to join me, I am planning to have a TCP book burning. We could all sit around a big green flame with our marshmellows, discussing Dante's Inferno and Don Quixote.
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Summary: More smug psychobabble for a spiritually starved culture
Review: This writing was rather more like a koan for me than a novel, for somewhere within its extremely well protected, soft, creamy nugat thesis I believe I threw the book down, ran into the corner and crawled into the feotal position and murmered something vague about tubular bells and plaster. This book is annoying. It is annoying for a vast multitude of reasons, its inane popularity being one of them. Obviously, western society is so famously interested in glorifying its devastitingly vapid spiritual culture that all someone like Redfield really has to do is gently masturbate some internalized guilt inherant in something like capitalism (the $20 you shelled out on this thing could have fed someone for a week, not to mention the poor tree that died for this sin) and people will launch themselves into the cosmos, have a 'totally awesome metaphysical awakening', spend a while wobbling around looking for other 'enlightened souls', but then just devolve into the substandard closet elitest that they really are - until the next installment comes out! Give credit to Redfield, he's pulling on the udder of American consciousness like nothing since Dale Carnegie. What is told in this book should be common sense to anyone who has suffered an episode of The Cosby Show or Home Improvements. Those who need Redfield to spoonfeed them their intellectual soma don't have the point and never will. I loathe books of this nature because they are slimy and underhanded and pray on the vulnerabilities of people who just might have really found some serious spiritual eddification had they not fallen for this microwaved spiritual laxative. Go read your bible, your koran, your gita, your talmud, whatever. Don't enourange this kind of silliness. SOoner or later, someone is going to lose an eye, hm?
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Summary: Opiate of the masses?
Review: Spiritual fulfillment is now available as a nine step"Jenny Craig" like program. How wonderful! I can easilyimagine a warm reception by a public "desperately" seeking easy solutions to life's difficult challenges. This book actually had a few interesting insights. However, it was about 200 (of 246) pages too long. I was longing for the end long before it came. Interestingly, I had just finished the last of Wouk's WW2 epic "War and Remembrance" (well over 1000 pages) and was left longing for more. By depth of insight, these books compare like the Pacific Ocean and the kiddie pool.
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Summary: There is a lot we can learn from it
Review: This books is very well written and keep you intrigued, but best off all, it has a lot of things to teach us. It has a message of what positive energy can do for us as persons and as a society. It presents an interesting and insightful complement theory about evolution of humans. Describes how people are conected to each other. It is definitely one of the very best
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Summary: Very Spiritual
Review: I really liked this book, because of its spiritual and its action, it was bouth enlightning and yet it was always some action involved, a little mystery here and there, some romance in the middle, very very good
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