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Title: Confused Writer Writes Poorly, Not at All Compelling
Review: I have read many Enneagream books, and this one is by far the worst. The author may have some knowledge of the system, perhaps a lot, but she does a poor job of showing it through writing, something which makes her a poor candidate for authoring a book on such a tricky subject as self exploration. Organization for each chapter describing personality types is nearly non-existent: Maitri wanders from observations to citations without a clear notion of where she's going, or what the Big Picture is. She loses herself and her reader in vague verbiage. This makes reading the book painful for longer than a paragraph.I strongly suggest the books of Helen Palmer, Don Riso and Russ Hudson, all lucid and rational writers who do their theory justice. What a waste of money, Maitri's "The Spiritual Dimension of the Enneagram."
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