teri
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Post by teri on May 31, 2006 16:14:13 GMT -5
Very little sports actually. He talks about some gymnastics but sports aren't the main focus of the book.
Mostly metaphysical stuff. Lots of alagory/parable/fables involved.
Let me know when you have read it.
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Post by amyurban on May 31, 2006 16:29:21 GMT -5
I read this book in college. Yeah Laura, not a sports book really at all. A way of looking a life, metaphysical, spiritual type of book. A good read, but yeah, I'm with Teri. Didn't change my life any but I know a few people it could help out a bit....
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Post by torinogal on May 31, 2006 17:31:49 GMT -5
Hope I'm not one of those people in need of "help"! PM me if I am, okay? LOL It sounds like a wonderful story. I'm really into spirituality and the psychic/metaphysical side of humans, and everything else that resides on this planet. Those of you I e-mail my fanfic to have probably figured this out already! I'm going to have to read it! Thanks for the info.  |
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Post by CrimsonAngel on May 31, 2006 18:28:08 GMT -5
They have infomation about it, including an early ad, all over Yahoo! Right on the homepage.
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Post by sara on May 31, 2006 20:44:05 GMT -5
"Shibumi" is also being made into a movie. With I believe, Keanu Reeves mis-cast (in my opinion) as the lead. The book always makes me think of Apolo. (If you haven't read this great book by a fabulous writer who recently and sadly died, Google it for a synopse.) Shibumi and the search for it seem to personify Apolo and his philosophy. (Effortless perfection.) The same author also wrote (under a psuedonym) "Rude Tales and Glorious" which is a hysteerical and extremely raunchy retelling of Arthurian legend. Sure wish I coulda met Trevanian before he died. Definitely my kind of twisted. I started reading Trevanian books back in the 70's and Shibumi was definitely my favorite. I actually think his best writing was done i the 70's, The Eiger Sanction, The Loo Sanction, The Main and Shibumi
. After that, I didn't think they were as good. Guess I kept comparing them to Shibumi. People use to think he was the same person as Robert Ludlum, but it turned out he wasn't. |
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Post by sara on May 31, 2006 20:49:35 GMT -5
I read the Way of the Peaceful Warrior this weekend. It's readily apparent when you have read the book where Apolo is drawing a lot of his viewpoints from (ie: the meaning of success and what his goals were for the Olympics). After having read the book, I'm not surprised that Apolo is contemplating a change in his life and looking for a sign as to what path to follow. For me it wasn't the "life changing" experience that the author touts. I believe if you are inherently happy with your life, at each stage, as you live it, you won't find much to draw from in the book. That being said I think it would be very enlightening for some people and I am passing it along to a client of mine who I think would gain from the lessons contained in the story. I'd be very interested in hearing someone elses thoughts on the book. I think I keep the library in business. I use to buy books, and I now have whole walls shelfs filled with them. Now, a book has to be really great for me to buy it, because when I buy one, I have to get rid of another to make room, and that is really hard. Anyway, I think this will be the next one I read. |
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Post by CrimsonAngel on May 31, 2006 20:53:45 GMT -5
So this book is along the lines of something that maybe L. Ron Hubbard would write?
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Post by Bella on May 31, 2006 23:03:08 GMT -5
Thanks for the thoughtful reviews, people.
I thought L. Ron Hubbard wrote science fiction? It doesn't seem like this book is science fiction is it?
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Post by amyurban on May 31, 2006 23:09:40 GMT -5
No Crimson, definitely NOT L. Ron Hubbard like at all.
It's a good read, really. Just in mine and Teri's opinion, not life changing/altering but for some, it just may be.
Yeah, L. Ron Hubbard was definitely into writing Sci-Fi while he was high on drugs. Many people do not know that, but he did.
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Post by CrimsonAngel on May 31, 2006 23:29:43 GMT -5
I thought it was something like what L. Ron Hubbard would write because he wrote Dianetics. Remember that book? I mean it talked alot about stuff relating to mental health.  |
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Post by CrimsonAngel on May 31, 2006 23:34:01 GMT -5
No Crimson, definitely NOT L. Ron Hubbard like at all. It's a good read, really. Just in mine and Teri's opinion, not life changing/altering but for some, it just may be. Yeah, L. Ron Hubbard was definitely into writing Sci-Fi while he was high on drugs. Many people do not know that, but he did. Was he high when he came up with Scientology??? Or maybe I should say was he using drugs when he created Scientology |
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Post by amyurban on Jun 1, 2006 1:48:50 GMT -5
BINGO Crimson...you hit it on the head. You ever READ that thing or been to one of them Scientology places? I used to date a guy a LONG time ago that got sucked into Scientology and he took me to the downtown Portland office. Talk about a "bizarre" experience. I won't go into it in here, it'd take too long but dear Lord...now I know WHY Tom Cruise is such a MAJOR WHACK JOB!  |
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Post by CrimsonAngel on Jun 1, 2006 8:00:07 GMT -5
Well tom Cruise is a whack job but most of the Hollywood actors aren't. I don't know why Tom is so entrenched in it and it's teachings. John Travolta and his wife Kelly Preston isn't nuts like Tom. Neither is Rosie O'Donelle. Tom is |
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Post by amyurban on Jun 1, 2006 8:32:37 GMT -5
I think it's because Tom actually thinks he's the "second coming" of L. Ron Hubbard. That's what he ACTS like, anyhow. Yeah, I know, not ALL Scientologists are nut jobs but there are quite a bit of them in "normal society" that are "Tom like" too. I met some of them that day. Good God, I felt like I was in a freakish "Zombie person" commune or something. I had to get out of there pretty quickly. Plus, they sure did want in my "wallet" something badly! Yeah, they LOVE money them Scientologists. As soon as they found out the neighborhood I lived in and what job I had ( this was when I was an accountant for a Fortune 500 company before the " corporate downsize") they were only too keen to try to have me sign up for tons of their classes, the cheapest of them at like $150 a pop!  I tell ya, it's pretty frickin' scary but then, I think just about ANY organized religion can be if people get too entrenched in them. People forget how to just be "normal" human beings towards one another, know what I'm saying? |
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Post by laura6 on Jun 1, 2006 8:42:15 GMT -5
amy..i do not know if its true or not but my husband thinks they are cult...
to be truthful he thinks any organized religion is a cult.....
can u smell an ex alter boy???
priests to took his tip money so now he is against so many religious groups...
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