This starts with a nice travelogue through Kashmir, and Tibet. The author was told at one of the Buddhist monasteries in Kashmir about Issa (Jesus Christ). He then tells you the verses about him, but he follows up with his explanations and it is hard to tell where the verses leave off and his commentary begins. It was certainly different than anything I had heard about Jesus. (The basic premise is that Jesus spent his teenage years in India teaching among the poor.)It was certainly intriguing. But believable? Maybe not.
This is an excerpt from his book "The Maine Woods". I found the way he talked about his Indian guide to be insulting. Other than that it was less enjoyable than Walden but not too bad, really.
The title of this book caught my attention. When I realized it was an autobiography I settled down for a nice pleasant read. However I was really disappointed. He spends much more time especially mid-book, discussing others rather than himself. I was left with very little sense of who he actually was. I found a few sections fascinating, however they were interspersed with hugely boring slow moving descriptions of others. I ended up bailing out 3/4 of the way through. I do not recommend this book.
When I read this, I did not realize it was a follow-up volume to her earlier autobiography. Now sometimes reading the correspondence of others can be really boring, but in this case, despite it being a very long book, I was kept interested enough in her life to finish it. I can recommend it to you unless you need a fast moving book. This one obviously meanders. My only disappointment with it is that she did leave some questions unanswered.
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