Customer Reviews
Great Book - By: Steven R. McEvoy, 31 May 2008 
This is an interesting story. It is a story of a lawyer who appears to have it alll - the corner office, the life style, the cars, women, ... Then he gives it alll up & tours the East. While there he comes across this strange monk & monastery. He comes to live life in a much different way. Yet he is challlenged by the monk who has trained him to go back home & share the message he has learnt, with the West. Julian, our main character, returns to his old law firm & to his prot?g? John. He tells him a parable; then the rest of the book explains the parable & how it relates to different aspects of our lives. The parable is rather simple & a little strange but as it is explained you will never forget it. Read it to find out how a garden, lighthouse, sumo wrestler, pink wire cable, stopwatch, roses & a winding path of diamonds are symbols of timeless principles & virtues by which to live your life. This book could help raise the quality of your life to a new level.
I Love This Book - By: Mr Malarkey, 22 May 2008 Somebody gave me this book to read & I thought it was an excellent book. I've read it a few times & I even bought my own copy. I find it uplifting with every read.
A Bad MIx of Some Great Works - By: Mr. TM JONES, 25 Mar 2008 
As one other reviewer, I bought this book because I liked the title. But that is where the similarity of our reviews ends.
The book is strange in the way the story develops, & the aide memoires used by Sharma are bizarre in the extreme. While I recognise the sense in providing some life lessons in stroy format, it does not gel well, & has a lot of mixed messages in the delivery (e.g. Julian Mantle (the monk) advocates the seeking of a simple life free from materialism, but then says that the techniques can be used to acumulate wealth, & material possessions.)
It is a poor blend of Napoleon Hills "Think & Grow Rich" - a more preferrable read - & some Eastern Mysticism. I think a lot of the impact is lost in the unfeasibility of the monks in the himalayan hills (not to mention the ease with which Julian apparently finds them!). It is like a blend of red wine & a single malt. Work well on their own, but have little business being put together!
It is my habit to complete a book, but this has been turgid going, & frankly of little or no value.
Hmmm - By: Ms. L. Rail, 11 Feb 2008 I bought this book because of the reviews on here so I feel it is important to write my own. I found this book to be overly simplistic & contrived. If you have read self help books it will have nothing new to offer you. I couldn't get through more than half which is very unusual for me.
Entirely unbelievable. - By: Feetham, 28 Jan 2008 Not only is this book badly written, it is also entirely unbelievable!
As if a Californian lawyer would out up with the hundred & one inconveniences that you experience living in India! Please......
Yes, go ahead - buy this book: but only if yoy want to make some rich guy even richer than he is.
