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Essay Archive - The Celestine Prophecy
The Celestine Prophecy
The Celestine Prophecy 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 the Celestine Prophecy."
"A novel of ideas;" that's a good phrase for this "novel." I read it twice
during this assignment: the first time I thought he had great ideas and themes
to live by; the second time I still thought he had great ideas, but a terrible
way of presenting them. Moyle says....
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