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Summary: I'm buying 6 copies...
Review: I loved this book! It's well written, exciting, comforting, and "down to earth" -- quite a feat for a book about heaven!
I lost a close friend recently, and this is just the book I needed to feel a sense of comfort and to ease some of my pain.
I will be getting several copies to give to friends who have lost loved ones. It will probably be the best thing they could receive to help them during this tough time.
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Summary: Amazing
Review: I loved this book. I have lost a brother and my beloved pet dog and miss them so much. This book helped me to feel closer to them and know that we will be reuninted again someday. A must read for people who have lost loved ones. Very well written. I can't say enough good about it. Read it for yourself and see.
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Summary: The ULTIMATE Entitlement program!
Review: I read through the book and found it to be predictable and amusing in a strained kind of way. Why strained? Because it gave me further insight into the gullibility of people who want something far too badly, whereas any rational consideration of an alternative simply scares the hell out of them. Ahh Heaven, the ULTIMATE Entitlement program. What motivates Jesus to pay for it all? Believe me when I tell you it's gonna cost him,... big time. If you want to heap infinite riches and pleasures on someone then you're likely to get very little return on your investment, even if you are god. Don't you think he'd want a little more than belief and praise for all these good digs? It's not like you'd have "earned" this ripe for the pick'n winning lotto ticket of the sky. Cotton candy, corns dogs, orgies, Pie! Mmmmm, heaven! (Halleluiah now). Just don't think that the heaven police (and there has to be one) won't kick you out and into that ole "lake 'o fire" if you cross over the line for some of the things you are going to be tempted to do. You're only human. So be good, for goodness sake. Cause Saint Nick's a coming, if you want him to, since "you get it your way", in heaven. People have such a hunger not to die, this is true. What else is true? Probably not your fantasies. Which is actually why they call them,... fantasies. What's the afterlife like? Well it may not be just the way the Jesus Industry sells it. Here's a hint. You have probably already experienced it. Remember that exceptionally vast stretch of time before you were born. No? Well, it could be a lot like that. Zip. Or, perhaps it could be something like the drop of you essence plopped into the ocean of all essence, which exceeds any religious imaginings by countless magnitudes of oceans, including all essence the religious would find alien and unacceptable on account of it being alien, as (I hate to break it to you) your wee world is not the center of the universe, let alone your galaxy. Sorry to rain on your irrational and unstoppable craving for Epcot in the sky. No doubt you'd have expected perfect weather ALL the time too. Happy reality.
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Summary: A Modern Classic
Review: I really thought I would hate this book. I thought it was going to be one of those weird books by people who claim to "talk to the dead." Wow, was I surprised. While the author certainly uses his imagination, every last concept is based right on the Bible and Christianity. I'm sure atheists and anti-Christians will no doubt scoff at the book, but outside of them, I've got to believe that millions and millions of people are going to be VERY affected by what Mr. DeStefano has written. I can't think of a book that has EVER made me feel so good. I have been afraid of death since I was little, and I have always been terrified of funeral homes, but after I read this book, it was as if all of that was wiped away. I'm sure I'm still going to be frightened by death, but I am always going to have this book inthe back of my mind, and I know that is going to help me. But the best thing is that the book is NOT sappy or pie-in-the sky. I can't believe how logical he makes it all sound. I found myself trying to argue against him and I couldn't. Anyway, I just loved it. I have read it twice already and I have ordered 5 copies to give away. The book actually makes me want to go to Church, something I haven't done in about 20 years. Very amazing little book.
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Summary: A Modern Classic
Review: I really thought I would hate this book. I thought it was going to be one of those weird books by people who claim to "talk to the dead." Wow, was I surprised. While the author certainly uses his imagination, every last concept is based right on the Bible and Christianity. I'm sure atheists and anti-Christians will no doubt scoff at the book, but outside of them, I've got to believe that millions and millions of people are going to be VERY affected by what Mr. DeStefano has written. I can't think of a book that has EVER made me feel so good. I have been afraid of death since I was little, and I have always been terrified of funeral homes, but after I read this book, it was as if all of that was wiped away. I'm sure I'm still going to be frightened by death, but I am always going to have this book inthe back of my mind, and I know that is going to help me. But the best thing is that the book is NOT sappy or pie-in-the sky. I can't believe how logical he makes it all sound. I found myself trying to argue against him and I couldn't. Anyway, I just loved it. I have read it twice already and I have ordered 5 copies to give away. The book actually makes me want to go to Church, something I haven't done in about 20 years. Very amazing little book.
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Summary: Great and Fascinating Read.
Review: I think it is better than Lewis' The Great Divorce, and that is saying something. It is easy to understand but with some very sublime insights. Moreover, its happy message cannot miss. I am hopeful that this book might possibly lead to a renewed faith-based discussion of the afterlife, devoid of all the new age nonsense about communicating with the dead.
I strongly recommend it.
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Summary: Something for everyone
Review: I was touched and delighted by this beautiful work. This book does more than anything I've ever read to make heaven real and accessible to the average Christian. I loved the logical speculations and imaginative ideas, and I admire Mr. Destefano's attempt to make this book as ecumenical as possible, focusing on what all Christian sects teach in common about the afterlife. Devoid of jargon and full of hope, A Travel Guide to Heaven is something I recommend for anyone who wants to know the basis for Christian optimism.
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Summary: Consoling
Review: If you have ever gone through a time in your life that seemed hopeless, as so many of us have, this is the book to read! When so many bad things happen in life there is almost never a way to bring your spirits up. This book made me laugh and cry at the same time. I've read it twice already, and I will continue to remind myself again and again of all the comforting and hopeful insights that this book covers! I LOVE IT!
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Summary: Comfort food for simpletons
Review: Pet gerbils and Thanksgiving dinners with every saved loved one (sans those loved ones burning in a lake of fire, of course). Stupid, stupid, stupid...
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Summary: Ridiculous
Review: Read the Bible, reach your own conclusions- this will involve using your head. Consider the fact that this book claims heaven to be a "vacation", despite the fact that vacations always involve smelly, argumentative kids arguing in the back seat of the car for several days until reaching Disneyland to vomit on a ride resembling a tea-cup. This God character don't have much imagination, according to this book, despite him giving us all an imagination (except for the author of this book, of course). God would probably be offended by a book like this. If you were moved by this book, and you don't have any dead relatives or friends, then that's your problem. Other than this, it'll probably make good toilet paper.
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