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Title: Plaigarism and bandwagonning galore
Review: I was immediately struck by the similarities between this book and two others I have read recently. The first is "The Celestine Prophecy" by James Redfield which is a fictionalised account of how the writer became caught up in a hunt for an ancient manuscript in Peru. On the way he met corrupt officials, shady government agents, benign monks and various enlightened natives. Obviously, he picked up a lot of New Age baloney at the same time. Plotwise, very similar to MMDU. The second book is "Amazon Beaming" and concerns a bearded photographer chasing aboriginal natives in Brazil. He loses all his possesions and treks for weeks through the jungle gaining insights and so on. By the way, the natives are telepathic. Is this all sounding familiar? I would say that MMDU is the mutant child of these two books at least. Also, since neither of its parents were very good, MMDU is downright dismal...
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