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Summary: Pure fun and good reading...
Review: The title of the book really dosnt do justice to the incredible humor youll find inside. Dont expect to learn any new "Laws" or improve your lifestyle, religeous beliefs and business by buying it. What you will find is pure fun and good reading. Add it you your library and it will be one of those books you end up passing around.
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Summary: Choprah, Robbins, and now Brother Ty... ;-)
Review: Buckley is, IMO, one of the funniest satirists writing today. In "God Is My Broker" he turns his sights on the self-help industry, with hysterical results. You're taken on an interesting if far-fetched journey through the life of the 'narrator', Brother Ty. The plot is pretty clever and entertaining, although that really isn't really the point in this book. The story serves as a backdrop for Buckley's hysterically incisive criticisms of Deepak Chopra and others of his self-help ilk, while throwing a few stones at the foibles of organized religion for good measure. Oh, and for the record, this novel is a SPOOF ladies & gentlemen -- don't expect to build a holy stock portfolio with it, but DO expect to laugh! :) P.S. I'd give this book a 5-star rating, except A.) it's kinda short, and B.) Buckley's "Thank You For Smoking" was even better IMO.
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Summary: Not what I expected
Review: I originally thought I was buying a book to help me with buying stocks God's way. I didn't want a get rich quick scheme but a book to read that would help me with my religious stock picks. ' What I got was a book that I did not enjoy reading. I stuck it out hoping he would get to the point and tell me something I could use.....it didn't come. His 7th point is to buy as many of his books as you can and send them to your friends and that the only way to acheive wealth is to write a book! I was not impressed and would not recommend this book at all.
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Summary: Good Laught
Review: If you went to Catholic school or are Christian you will find this book very entertaining. Plus it pokes fun at the self help Gurus. A drunken stock trader becomes a Monk and saves a Monastery. The ending could have been better.
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Summary: Nice Concept, But BORING !
Review: The idea of a book written as a parody of all those "self-help" books out there is a great idea, but this one, in my opinion, quickly becomes boring and lacks direction. Maybe I just didn't get it, but it was really pointless. Save your money and pass on this one.
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Summary: Funny and Thought Provoking
Review: This is a scandalous send up to Deepak Chopra and the other self improvement gurus. It's really funny, but simultaneously, it manages to be scathingly critical of the ever popular genre, the get rich quick self improvement book. Enjoy it on any number of levels. I buying copies for friends.
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Summary: A really funny yet eerily telling book....
Review: This is a really funny book. It's not a classic but definately a fun and worthwhile read. Buckley's send up of the American proclivities of spirituality, self-help gurus, materialism, etc. still amuses me almost a year after I first read this book.... how much more people who fell into these traps would realize if they instead of reading Deepak Chopra and his kinsmen would only read this!!! This is the story of a stockbroker who, tired of life, went to find seclusion in a monestary... only to find that the monestary was broke and that its product.... horribly made wine (which was why he went there...) was in dire straits... but eventually finds salvation.... If you find a copy of this book, definately pick it up and read it. It's a fairly quick book..... though I'm not sure that it'd be worth the cover price to me....
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Summary: Almost as good as Thank You For Smoking
Review: One of Buckley's best books and a fantastic satire for those that are sick of hearing about how to get rich quick and "synergize" on the job. Buckley pokes fun at every popular self-help guru out there, along with all of us that take our professional lives a bit too seriously . . . One of the few books that has made me laugh out loud.
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Summary: The secrets of self help books revealed¿¿.
Review: Christopher Buckley is an accomplished writer of several genres, although his humor and wit when committed to paper are very special, and at times especially sharp edged. Sharp, as only a quick intellect, a novel view on life, and a willingness to bring humor where others fear to tread can be. As the Son of one of the most accomplished men of letters, he has created a style that is all his own, and which frequently, one imagines, causes Buckley The Elder to wince. The photo on the inside of the jacket is a good visual summary of Mr. Buckley and John Tierney as could be staged. Taken, I believe, in front of St. Patrick's Cathedral a monk enigmatically robed and seated in the back of a limo, resembles one of the cloaked Jedi Knights of Star Wars fame. No Jedi he, as this is the Brother Ty that will lead you, the reader, to riches. Bracketed on either side of the Monk, stand the authors; both nattily dressed, raising their glasses of wine, more as a challenge than a salute. I am not familiar with Mr. Tierney's work, but whatever he contributed to this book is very well done. Divine inspiration guides Brother Ty as he seeks to replenish the coffers of the Monastery he has joined, after alcohol and his failure as a stockbroker brought him to a contemplative life. However what he finds is an Order that is rapidly becoming extinct, the Monks are on food stamps, the treasury depleted, and it falls to him to save it. What follows is a wickedly written satire on self-help books in general, and those that concentrate on business in particular. But this book is different, for it is infused with the divine, and as He created the world in 6 days and then rested, His picking of stocks and commodities not only is a sure play, it is here for all to learn. Another great work from Mr. Buckley, this time with his co-conspirator, Mr. Tierney.
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Summary: Monkeying around pays dividends
Review: What a joy. Truly one I couldn't put once I'd picked it up. The promo says that if you've read Anthony Robbins, Deepak Chopra and Stephen Colvin and your life still stinks then this is the book for you. I have, it does, this is.
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