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Summary: A simple and enjoyable read!
Review: I thoroughly enjoyed the "Canterbury" style of this little book with many big messages. It was never too preachy and always insightful. And even somewhat comical at times. The sad thing was to find myself laughing at some of these poor characters, and realizing I may be like a few of them. If it was only that simple to find everyone "holy"...
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Summary: A funny, thoughtful vignette of stories. The best ever!!
Review: I travel frequently and always visit my local library to check out video books as entertainment during the trip. Every once in a while I find a real gem. This month's gem is The Holy Man by Susan Trott. It is a vignette of inspirational and funny stories about the happenings of people in modern time who spend weeks or months in line waiting to see the holy man. I plan to order several copies as a gift for friends. Also, I plan to read or listen to Ms. Trott's "Journey" book.
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Summary: Far reaching messages...
Review: I treasure this book. I have given away more than 50 copies of it since it came out. I've read it to more than 25 classes of teenaged students - many of whom went out and got their own copies. I also have all of the other Susan Trott books I have been able to find. I've read several of those novels more than once. If your heart is open to it - The Holy Man can change your life.
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Summary: Far reaching messages...
Review: I treasure this book. I have given away more than 50 copies of it since it came out. I've read it to more than 25 classes of teenaged students - many of whom went out and got their own copies. I also have all of the other Susan Trott books I have been able to find. I've read several of those novels more than once. If your heart is open to it - The Holy Man can change your life.
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Summary: Play that line again, Susan...
Review: I'll never look at a line the same way after having read Susan Trott's "The Holy Man". And I know I'll be reading it over and over again.
It's not so difficult to realize why - it seems someone has finally managed to teach me something without making me feel desperate with my total incapacity of 'following the rules' to be a better person. Just the opposite, Trott's funny and direct way of laying down truths I've almost forgotten makes it easy to run the same trail.
The fact that I have read it by chance, just because a friend liked the title and bought it to me as a last gift before my last moving simply echoes in real life what I have read: the best *of everything* lies always near you - it's just a matter of wanting to see it.
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Summary: A Must-Read For Anyone With A Mind...And A Heart
Review: I'm glad to see so many favorable reports about The Holy Man, as it is quite possibly my favorite book. This book provides a model for life that is so succinct and simple; and really hits home in a number of ways. When I wasn't laughing, I was squirming a bit, even a couple of dozen reads later. I have given away more copies of this book than I can count. I highly recommend sitting down and reading through it only a chapter at a time so that you can think about it. It's a quick read, so you'll have plenty of time to read the sequel, The Holy Man's Journey! It's great, too, but the first one is just a treasure.
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Summary: something better
Review: If you liked this book, have I got a deal for you. Please, please get a copy of C.Terry Warner's: Bonds That Make Us Free and savor every word. The Holy Man might get you started but Terry Warner gives the instructional manual. Prepare to be changed forever.
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Summary: A gift
Review: Proof that the best things often come in little packages, this small book is an inspiration. Try keeping it on your desk and reading a chapter a day.
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Summary: A gift
Review: Proof that the best things often come in little packages, this small book is an inspiration. Try keeping it on your desk and reading a chapter a day.
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Summary: A mirror to my life
Review: Somewhere up in the mountains, someone is living his life, during the winter he is alone, but during the summer hundreds of visitors are passing by and visit him with their questions. They see him as a godlike being, but the only thing he does is showing them a way through his house. 'You wanted to see the holy man? You just did, now go and greet anyone you meet as a godlike being.' And off they went, totally amazed over the things they didnot notice. The book contains only stories with this moral, but Trott writes them in such a way that they are all amazing, believable and as soon as you have understood the moral of the first story, you read on to hear the next and the next and the next, and starting all over again.....
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