Sense of live

James Redfield

The Celestine Prophecy: An Adventure – Follow our nameless man, who, in the middle of a career crisis, leaves the comforts of coffeehouse and hip conversation to travel to Peru in search of the mysterious Manuscript with the power to change life as we know it. Thrill as he runs through the jungle and hides behind boulders to evade capture by soldiers and interrogation by the evil Cardinal Sebastian. Meet Phil, the timorous ecologist. Chill as our hero is captured and taken to an oppressively gray detention hall. Listen as he grouses about the meal of gristly beef and potatoes he is served in jail. Will the hero get the girl by the end of the book? Not if he doesn’t wise up to the fact that she’s telepathic and having those erotic thoughts around her get him in trouble every time. Be amazed at the two dimensional characters and the loopy theology/cosmology/whatever that kept this book on the best seller’s list for two years. What in God’s name do people see in this banal, grating screed? When a novel so ideologically loopy and artistically flat is so phenomenally successful a closer look is surely in order. Here, dear reader, are the 9 Insights: 1) we need more people to be nice to each other; 2) eat your vegetables; 3) learn to see auras by staring at the space between your fingers; 4) listen to what people tell you; 6) avoid co-dependent relationships and you’ll have more energy; 7) stop and smell the roses; practice birth control and adopt; 9) as you practice the 9 Insights people who aren’t as cool as you are won’t be able to see you any more and you’ll become invisible like the unicorns. Really!

From amazon (reader’s review)

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