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Title: If You Only Knew How Easy It Was
Review: This is a book of cotton-candy emotions for those for whom life is a street fair. In spite of its occasionally serious-sounding tone, it is not a "how-to" book about intimacy; it is less a map than a tour-guide. In spite of its perhaps unintentional allusion to the spiritual life (such as Merton's "Seven Story Mountain," the number "seven" having spiritual significance), and its occasional references to things spiritual, there is no spiritual "food" here--nothing one has to chew on because every insight or obstacle or challenge is pureed enough to be sipped through a straw. Still, perhaps its popularity-- and its very aim is to be "popular"-- says more about us as readers/consumers than it does about the writer. If that is the case then one cannot help but wonder whether the author's regard of us is more cynical than sincere.
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