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Title: The Commanding Self Review: Suggests ways to deal with the psychological barriers to spiritual progress. Shah emphasizes the need for people to discern their own emotional ebb and flow and come to an understanding of it, so that they operate it, and not it them. In particular, The Commanding Self helped me to develop honest and useful responses to issues of vanity, ambition, personal recognition and worldly success. Is the review positive or negative?
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Title: Disappointment Review: I had heard a lot about this writer. Now, after a few pages of Temple, I have put the book down and will not venture any further into it. In the first few pages, a person is hiding in a "drop ceiling" in a very old Jesuit monastery; two different countries have built a "doomsday machine" that can destroy the Earth and an ancient Inca prince ties a rope to an arrow, shots it into a wooden door and slides down the rope. GIVE ME A BREAK. This is junior high school stuff. I have never felt like I wasted money on reading material but this just changed my mind. I won't even put it in the trash as it would stink it up. Is the review positive or negative?
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Title: If you can get beyond the hideous anti-Catholicism. . . Review: . . .based not on what the Church teaches, but what LaHaye and Jenkins have bought into. . .you might find the premise of this book to be a little more thought-provoking than most in this series.At least a legitimate moral question is posed: Is it moral to kill a tyrant? I'll give the authors credit -- a little -- for asking a serious question. But overall, this book -- like the series -- is a poorly written collection of comic book caricatures based on an extreme minority view of "Last Things" -- a view rejected, not only by Catholic and Orthodox Christians, but by most Protestants as well.If you're into supernatural thrillers, read Charles Williams. If you're into novels about the "End Times" try "That Hideous Strength" by C.S. Lewis or "Father Elijah" by Michael O'Brien. Is the review positive or negative?
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