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 The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom, A Toltec Wisdom Book $17.95 I try my best to follow the Four Agreements and when I do I feel I am at my best.  The Rule of Four $7.99 I understand where the complaints come from. I actually picked this book up years ago and found the opening fascinating and yet didn't get past 100 pages or so. A few days ago I decided to pick it up again and read it front to back. LOved it. I can see where some say it is wordy. It sometimes is. And yet I loved the detail, the metaphors and the genuine feel of "life" this books conveys. There's alot more "life" in this book than most suspense novels. I enjoyed that. I followed the timeline fairly easily. I do think there was too much round and round the merry-go-round after awhile. I guess that's where the wordiness works against them. Too many metaphors. Too many similies. Too many descriptions of snow. Too many philosophical looks at the relationships. Too many 500 yr old historical figures to keep track of. They built up some good suspense and then decided to divert from it for too long especially in the second half of the book. One plot point that seemed unnecessary was Charlie getting hurt and being hospitalized. Or at least it dragged on too long. So yeah I think some trimming would have helped. But you don't want to trim and lose the "life and vitality" that leaps of the pages during much of the book. I read a few release suspense novels in the week before I picked this book back up and they were mostly generic in comparison to this book. But Rule of Four could hit us less over the head with the reference book. And work more on some of the plot points. The ending was a downer of sorts. But a problem for most stories. It's much easier to build up a story than to end it properly.  House, M.D. - Season Four $59.98 House is great. It is intelligent beyond most one hour dramas. the plots are always interesting and multi-leveled with character lines. Love to catch this season. |
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