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Summary: No longer funny when you know it's fake.
Review: There IS NO Brother Ty, this book is a work of fiction. I found it at an outlet store, misfiled in the "religion" section, and bought it for about [$], which is about what it's worth. First off, the book was funny as long as I thought it was a real account about real people in real circumstances. I find monastic life intriguing and I love reading about the day to day existence of monks. However, once, I realized it was just a novel, my interest waned immensely, and the book really lost it's "bite." I realize that if I had approached it as a work of fiction I would not have been so disappointed. However, if I had found the book in the fiction section of the bookstore, where it belongs, I never would have bought it. The writing is good, but it loses so much punch when you discover (after about 30 pages) that it's fiction. Now, if we could only get a story about a monastery that was this entertaining...
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Summary: So Funny It Should Carry an FDA Warning on the Side!
Review: This book is a pure delight. Whether the subject is Wall Street philosophies, "mission" statements for religious orders, fradulent e-commerce, self-help, the Vatican hierarchy, or degrees of celibacy, Brother Ty skewers magnificiently. The unfortunate consequenses of a poor Catholic education have never been put to such a redeeming use. I laughed out loud so hard when reading this book that my children started worrying about me.
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Summary: Humorous poke at self help, Catholicism and spirituality!
Review: This is a fun light read that sends up Catholicism (I'm Catholic, and I found some of the "in" jokes to be quite funny! :-), self-help and other maladies of the 21st century.Read it!
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Summary: Humorous poke at self help, Catholicism and spirituality!
Review: This is a fun light read that sends up Catholicism (I'm Catholic, and I found some of the "in" jokes to be quite funny! :-), self-help and other maladies of the 21st century. Read it!
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Summary: Humorous poke at self help, Catholicism and spirituality!
Review: This is a fun light read that sends up Catholicism (I'm Catholic, and I found some of the "in" jokes to be quite funny! :-), self-help and other maladies of the 21st century. Read it!
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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: An extreemly funny book revealing the road to true "success"
Review: This is an extreemly humorous book detailing the path to success in life. I laughed aloud at the well written genuinely "true-to-life" situations Brother Ty narrates in this personal tale of his journey to "Spiritual AND Financial Growth." There is a very tender and heart touching element found in the development of the characters introduced in this story which makes it a delight to read. Also, as a minister myself, (protestant & Presbyterian...so pray for me, my Catholic friends!) I appreciated the accurate use of theology and Scripture found throughout the story, an element missing in many popular "self-help" books. Overall a great book about the insanity (and cure) found in our "growth" oriented modern society. I couldn't help visualizing how this will appear as a screen play. (Now that Robert Downey Jr. is "out and about," he has my vote for "Bro.Ty"!) A fun read that will leave you feeling good about life.
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Summary: A pleasant surprise from what look liked a self-help book.
Review: When I first bought the book I thought it was a self-help book for recovering market losers (like me) to help me refocus into the spiritual aspects of life. As I read the book, I started wondering if the story was true. The later chapters seemed so absurd that it couldn't have been true. At the very end, it really was a pleasant surprise. What turned out to be a quest for self-help turned out to be a book that panned all the self-help gurus. Bravo to the authors! The witty biblical quotes and expressions were gems that kept me laughing. I only gave four stars because I found the Market Meditations at the end a bit too much.
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