Title: Focus on the truths, not the plot!
Product review: Okay, I concede, James Redfield is no Shakespeare. The Hardy Boys-style grammar and plot can hardly be discribed as good literature. But read beyond that (and this is where the difference between a "third grader" and an adult is supposed to come in) and absorb the truths at the core of the book. Redfield has certainly taught me how to look at the world around me, the sequences of events, and especially coincidences, with a new awareness. He also provided me with a new - and as far as I am concerned totally valid - insight into relationships with what he calls "control dramas". Think about it: we all have them. Redfield didn't set out to write the "great novel of the century" - he simply wrote the book in novel form to make the truths he is trying to present accessable to a larger audience. Intellectual snobs who are criticizing this book so severely are merely showing there incapacity to READ at a deeper level and to THINK. Come on, don't be petty!
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