The Celestine Prophecy
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by James Redfield. More popular than The Bridges of
Madison County, more philosophical than Socrates, and it rivals onlu R.L.
Stein's Fear Street series in bad writing. It's a "novel of ideas" says Kenneth
Moyle in his very critical essay "Why I Hate ."
"A novel of ideas;" that's a good phr ....
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.... the monotone authorial voice," says Moyle. A major problem I had
with reading The Celestine Prophecy was keeping track of who was who; the
characters have little or no distinction between them, and it was a bit
confusing because he keeps encountering the same people in different situations.
Another thig is Redfield repeats himself and the insights, and I'm assuming
he does it on purpose but it gets monotonous. Moyle calls it "considerate," but
I think it's just plain repe ....
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