Title: Not what it's cracked up to be
Product review: Evidently Oprah is on a kick to recommend modern re-hashes of old themes. This is the second book this month off her list that I have read (the other being Edgar Sawtelle) and I will most likely steer clear of her picks in the future. This book is another tired regurgitation of the old theme that has been much better stated elsewhere and with more eloquence, of making an existential leap of faith toward meaning in a hostile world where even the word "meaning" becomes meaningless. Completely driven by dialogue reiterated time after time after time, the story fails to pull off its apparently metaphorical revelations and just dumps the whole tangled mess into a heap at the end. To me it was neither morally enlightening, thought provoking, nor revelational but was just plain boring.
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