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    <body><![CDATA[The book starts with Peck's enthusiasm for Malachi Martin's work. Martin, a former priest, spent a great deal of time exorcising supposed demons and profiting from his popular accounts of these experiences. He considers even the most conservative of the Catholics to be conciliatory Satan appeasers. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15852795">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book emphasizes that our choices matter. Fooling around with compromising-with-evil intentions--while it won't lead one into league with the devil per se--is utterly damaging to one's inner self. Evil's consequences are more real on whatever level we take it to than we like to think, operating ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46627201">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Not as good as Road Less Traveled or <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4451.People_of_the_Lie" title="People of the Lie by M. Scott Peck">People of the Lie</a>, but still very, very interesting. What we have here is the transcript of two (or three, I forget) exorcisms. Demons show up. I remember that one of the demons expressed awe or wonderment at the fact that we're able to live in such vulnerable ci...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27087976">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this for my own information for the work I do as a healing minister. Very interesting book.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I love psych vs. geniune evil books. Peck has a great book called People of the Lie and after many years published what he witnessed at exorcisms. Love the unexplainable and I have a wild imagination. I really enjoyed the book. anything &quot;based on a true story&quot; has appeal just about these d...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40905394">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[For me, it offers a different, more scientific, if you will, point of view. Can be somewhat entertaining for the more imaginative ones.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Scott Peck's arrogance is surpassed only by his blind admiration of a compulsive liar. ]]></body>
    
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