Rating: ![1 stars](http://www.reviewfocus.com/images/stars-1-0.gif) 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.
Rating: ![5 stars](http://www.reviewfocus.com/images/stars-5-0.gif) Summary: Widely revered Review: I've never read this book, but it sounds quite interesting and thought provoking. I heard about it through actor Antonio Sabato, Jr., who said in an interview on "The View" that it was his favorite book, along with the Bible. I just thought that those who read it might find that interesting.:-)
Rating: ![2 stars](http://www.reviewfocus.com/images/stars-2-0.gif) Summary: Don't waste your time Review: I told my officemate at work about this book after I finished reading it and he found as much amusement in the ludicrous presentation of its concepts as I did. Not only is the writing sloppy but the "adventure" would be the first proposal thrown out of an X-Files script meeting. There is something profound latently lurking in the pages of this book but it never really comes into focus at any point in the story. Maybe someone else can do a better job discussing the same material in a different book.
Rating: ![1 stars](http://www.reviewfocus.com/images/stars-1-0.gif) Summary: you will be stupider for reading this book Review: If i had to name the singularly worst piece of writing i have ever read, this would be it. an somehow, it managed many weeks on the bestsellers list! you will like this book if: a) inanimate objects or voices from no where instill you with the teaching of the great forest people. b) you've experimented with hallucinagenic drugs. the descriptions of the random colors will bring you right back to those LSD days when you thought you could fly. c) your reading abilities have not yet passed middle school level. the actual writing of this book was undoubtedly the worst i've ever seen. d) you have a chair thats appx. 3/4 an inch to short. using this book as a prop would be ideal. this book is horrible. don't even bother.
Rating: ![1 stars](http://www.reviewfocus.com/images/stars-1-0.gif) Summary: Not worth the time-rate this one '0' Review: I heard so much about this book that I thought I'd see what all the fuss was about. I'm just glad that I didn't spend good money on it! I borrowed it from the public library where I work. I love to read, and usually try to finish a book even if it's slow getting into it. I really tried to find something in this one to keep me reading to the end, but about 3/4 of the way through I finally gave up. I found the writing terribly boring, and all the mumbo jumbo about energy fields and dramas just got to me after a while. I found not one redeeming thing about this book. Would have rated it no stars, but that option wasn't available. Sorry I wasted my time on it.
Rating: ![5 stars](http://www.reviewfocus.com/images/stars-5-0.gif) Summary: A great source that opens ones mind to the next level. Review: A simply fantastic book that is full of wonder and adventure and at the same time allows the average person to take another look at life and to hopefully understand that there is another way of doing things. Society has imposed our present "World View" and I believe that it is because of this that we are where we are. We need to believe in ourselves and our ability to control our own fate. Only by doing this can we ever be happy. This book helps pave the way. I would suggest reading some texts on Toaism by Benjamin Hoff as a preliminary way of openning the mind. I also highly recommend the Tenth Insight for those who liked the Celestine Prophecy and see the inner meaning of it.
Rating: ![4 stars](http://www.reviewfocus.com/images/stars-4-0.gif) Summary: A Good Start Review: For anyone who has not yet had an experience in their lives that gave them a deeper understanding of the world around them, this book is a good place to begin. Although the insights that are covered are not a complete explanation of the world around us, it does give us a glimpse at the underlying nature of the universe. At the very least this book will make you think. It will make you question what you have been taught. The conclusions reached in the various insights are hard to deny. After reading this book I felt relief that someone had finally wrote about this kind of explanation of spirituality.
Rating: ![5 stars](http://www.reviewfocus.com/images/stars-5-0.gif) Summary: The journey is worth the destination. Review: This is what I consider a self examining adventure. I found much that I could personnally relate to and use as a map to find some answers I have been looking for.
Rating: ![5 stars](http://www.reviewfocus.com/images/stars-5-0.gif) Summary: Great book that makes you think. Review: I thought that the Celestine Prophecy really brought the idea of such a transformation into the light. It has affected my life and obviously the lives of others. I am proceeding with reading the rest of the Celestine series. Hopefully James Redfield will write more on this topic.
Rating: ![4 stars](http://www.reviewfocus.com/images/stars-4-0.gif) Summary: Take it for what it is, a collection of ideas, not adventure Review: I can't say much for the style the book was written in, but the ideas the book presents are very thought provoking. I think, like a lot of philosophy books that i've encountered that by the end he takes these ideas to thier illogical conclusion. But, if you look at this as a collection of ideas presented in a uinique way, it really can give you a new way to look at life and your surroundings.
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