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  <read_at>Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Utter drivel. The book was badly written, righteous, condescending, preachy, and worst of all, the ending was morally questionable. All the fables and stories are stolen from elsewhere, religious ideas and spirituality are badly mixed, and everything is so <strong>obvious</strong>.<br/><br/>The book harps on about tapping into the Soul of the World, the Language of the World, about your one true path and other nonsense. The basic idea is that if you really want something and &quot;listen to your heart&quot;, the whole universe will help you achieve it if you only look for omens. A questionable idea in a world where people no longer want to work hard and achieve independently.<br/><br/>It reads like a really bad self-help book written for 8 year old children and disguised as a symbolic parable. I read a lot of books and I can safely say this is the worst book I have ever read. It's only <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/130916.The_Saving_Graces_A_Novel" title="The Saving Graces  A Novel by Patricia Gaffney">saving grace</a> was that it was mercifully short.]]></body>
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