Helpful Score: 10
Even the jaded will find themselves thinking about this book long after closing the last page. Touches the soul.
Helpful Score: 6
Loved this book! A must read for everyone!
Helpful Score: 4
Could not finish. Way to surreal, unbelievable for me. I found myself questioning everything.
Helpful Score: 4
One word: trite. It reads like an awful combination of Left Behind and Siddhartha.
Helpful Score: 4
I LOVE this book!! Have read it several times.
Helpful Score: 3
Such a great spiritual book, really makes you look and life in a different way.
Helpful Score: 2
I didn't like this book at all.
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very good story-kept my interest
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A lot of people said they got deep insights from this book. Some of them were people I knew who were quite nice people. Unfortunately I was not one of those people who got something from this book. Except perhaps an urge to develop my own version of "I found the secret to the universe and I'll tell you if you buy this book."
Helpful Score: 1
A mystical journey with real life insights. Definitely worth reading. More and more authors are coming to the same conclusions that James Redfield did in The Celestine Prophecy. Some of the chase scenes are cheesy, and the dialogue is awkward at times, but the insights are worth reading.
Helpful Score: 1
Yuck! Hated it!
Helpful Score: 1
Interesting take on the earth people's journey towards what we hope is enlightenment.
Helpful Score: 1
Slow to start, but I'm really enjoying it!
Helpful Score: 1
Incredible book, left me wanting more so now I have The tenth, eleventh and final with companion books.
Helpful Score: 1
not sure how some people were duped into thinking this was anything but fiction... a good read...
Helpful Score: 1
Such a moving story of personal awareness in the world. One of my favorites.
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I definately feel & think this book is worth reading... But not as a novel alone. I feel like Redfield could have issued a pamphlet with the 9 insights and it wouldnt have taken 200+ pages.. i'd have suggested he get Dan Brown or JK Rowling to ghost or co-write, as the quality of narrative could be much improved, and in so doing, reach a wider audience. All that said, Redfield knits together a lot of concepts on spiritual growth and evolution in a palatable, digestible fashion, and i find myself interested in reading the sequel.
Helpful Score: 1
Definitely a book to re-read after the first time...you always find a bit more.
Helpful Score: 1
If you ever felt like there is more to the world then what you know, this is a great eye opener to how people act and why.
"The Celestine Prophecy contains secrets that are currently changing our world. Drawing on the ancient wisdom found in a Peruvian manuscript, it tells you how to make conections between the events happening in your own oife right now..and lets you see what is going to happen to you in th years to come!
This is a very different way of looking at things- very thought provoking.
Good Book. Interesting concepts and ideas
This book reads more like a Socratic dialogue than an actual believable tale. Some have criticized the so-called plot; when really, the plot serves only as a vehicle to take you to the next lesson. Each \"insight\" is presented as a topic for discussion, often with an example of the insight\'s application through the narrator\'s success or failure at realizing its meaning. So you\'ve got stuffy philsophical, dare I say \"new age\" topics wrapped in an easily digestible format than a academic dissertation or a sociology textbook would present.
Also suggest "The Celestine Prophecy: An Experiential Guide" by the same authors.
I actually couldn't get into this one. It meandered for me. But it was a best seller at the time, so what do I know! :-)
The plot idea held my interest at first but the writing style turned out to be really repetitive and the characters were one dimensional and undeveloped. Became tedious to read so I skipped ahead to the end.
Didn't bother with the movie.
Didn't bother with the movie.
did not read this book. could not get into it any of the several times I tried to read it.
I found it to be predictable & didn't inspire me the way I thought it would. The Alchemist still stands tall to this!!
This is a fiction that makes you wonder about the possibilities. It was very interesting and quite an enjoyable read. Some might think it a bit strange, but if you like to think for yourself and allow yourself to wonder "what if" you will love this one.
Adventure story of self discovery woven into a journey through Peru. Thought provoking! Good read.
His philosophy might be OK, but his writing talent isn't.
This book is one of my favorites. I love it.
I can decide if I really liked this book or if it really sucked. Hmmm...
This book was good however the far fetched ending was disappointing.
I enjoyed this book. I'm also reading the next book in the series. I found the first book very interesting.
Derivative of "The Teachings Of Don Juan" by Carlos Castenda. If you haven't read that book then you may get something out of "Celestine".
Just for the record, isbn 044651862X is a hardcover, I'm sitting here holding a copy :-)
And my review is 5 stars. Simple story, quick read, but full of thought provoking insights you will never forget.
And my review is 5 stars. Simple story, quick read, but full of thought provoking insights you will never forget.
Pretty darn interesting.
Great book.
Super Book
"A fabulous book about experiencing life-I couldn't put it down." Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, M.D.
The Celestine Prophecy contains secrets that are currently changing our world. Drawing on the ancient wisdom found in a Peruvian manuscript, it tells you how to make connections between the events happening in your own life right now... and lets you see what is going to happen to you in the years to come!
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Find out for yourself why virtually everyone you know has this book, described as an "adventure in pursuit of a spiritual mystery", on their coffee table. In the tradition of Carlos Castaneda's The Teachings of Don Juan.
From Publishers Weekly
Redfield's debut is a fast-paced adventure in New Age territory that plays like a cross between Raiders of the Lost Ark and Moses's trek up Mt. Sinai. Originally self-published, the book sold phenomenally, sparked by word of mouth, and may be this year's The Bridges of Madison County --with which it shares some regrettable stylistic similarities. The saga begins when the unnamed middle-aged male narrator whimsically quits his nondescript life to track down an ancient Peruvian manuscript (pretentiously called the Manuscript) containing nine Insights that supposedly prophesy the modern emergence of New Age spirituality. South of the border, he encounters resistance from the Peruvian government and church authorities, who believe the document will undermine traditional family values. While dodging evil soldiers, paranoid priests and pseudoscientific researchers, our hero sequentially discovers all nine Insights during a series of chance encounters. Redfield has a real talent for page-turning action, and his lightweight quest employs auras, energy transfers and other psychic phenomena. But several of the Insights are incredibly vacuous and politically correct, and long stretches of dialogue are banal and cliched. The book ends with the protagonist poised to discover the 10th Insight in a promised sequel. 250,000 first printing; BOMC selection; author tour.
Find out for yourself why virtually everyone you know has this book, described as an "adventure in pursuit of a spiritual mystery", on their coffee table. In the tradition of Carlos Castaneda's The Teachings of Don Juan.
From Publishers Weekly
Redfield's debut is a fast-paced adventure in New Age territory that plays like a cross between Raiders of the Lost Ark and Moses's trek up Mt. Sinai. Originally self-published, the book sold phenomenally, sparked by word of mouth, and may be this year's The Bridges of Madison County --with which it shares some regrettable stylistic similarities. The saga begins when the unnamed middle-aged male narrator whimsically quits his nondescript life to track down an ancient Peruvian manuscript (pretentiously called the Manuscript) containing nine Insights that supposedly prophesy the modern emergence of New Age spirituality. South of the border, he encounters resistance from the Peruvian government and church authorities, who believe the document will undermine traditional family values. While dodging evil soldiers, paranoid priests and pseudoscientific researchers, our hero sequentially discovers all nine Insights during a series of chance encounters. Redfield has a real talent for page-turning action, and his lightweight quest employs auras, energy transfers and other psychic phenomena. But several of the Insights are incredibly vacuous and politically correct, and long stretches of dialogue are banal and cliched. The book ends with the protagonist poised to discover the 10th Insight in a promised sequel. 250,000 first printing; BOMC selection; author tour.
Drawing on the ancient wisdom found in a Peruvian manuscript, this book tells you how to make connections between the events happening in your own life right now . . . and lets you see what is going to happen to you in the years to come!
Read the original novel which is soon to be a major motion picture.
I have the companion "Experiential Guide" book and cassette to include with this spiritual adventure.
Do not read hard cover books didn't realize it was a hard cover till I received the book.
This ISBN is not hardcover.
