Breakfast with Buddha | Roland Merullo | Wonderful message, better book

Breakfast with Buddha | Roland Merullo | Good lessons on how to live delivered in the form of a novel

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Breakfast with Buddha

	Breakfast with Buddha Roland Merullo Algonquin Books, 2008 - 336 pages average customer review:based on 15 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

When his sister tricks him into taking her guru on a trip to their childhood home, Otto Ringling, a confirmed skeptic, is not amused. Six days on the road with an enigmatic holy man who answers every question with a riddle is not what he'd planned. But in an effort to westernize his passenger?and amuse himself?he decides to show the monk some "American fun" along the way. From a chocolate factory in Hershey to a bowling alley in South Bend, from a Cubs game at Wrigley field to his family farm near Bismarck, Otto is given the remarkable opportunity to see his world?and more important, his life?through someone else's eyes. Gradually, skepticism yields to amazement as he realizes that his companion might just be the real thing.

In Roland Merullo's masterful hands, Otto tells his story with all the wonder, bemusement, and wry humor of a man who unwittingly finds what he's missing in the most unexpected place.

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Wonderful message, better book

"Breakfast with Buddha" is an excellent read. The message is beautiful, the delivery smooth, the decriptions priceless, and the editing superb. Creative writing classes should read this exemplary book to study its word choice, sentence structure, and grammatically correct paragraphs.

I'm buying ten copies to give as gifts.

Good lessons on how to live delivered in the form of a novel

Reluctantly stuck with his sister's guru on a cross-country drive, a writer makes friends with a new way to view life. Well-written, with good life lessons and great reviews of good places to eat, this is a fast, feel-good read. I highly recommend it.

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One sitting - read

Sometimes you need something to read that just makes you feel good -- this book did this for me. It had all the ingredients of a good read: road trip across America, use of language which caught me writing snippets down because written so well, spiritual odyssey of a modern man, filled with religious/spiritual teachings in a nonthreatening nor intimidating way. Author gives a litany of substantive sources for the thoughts his character espoused within the text which clearly shows the underpinning spiritual message is meatier than one might think. Yes, it is formulaic, but who cares because when reading it you just want to smile!!!!

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Breakfast a good start

What a wonderful way to start the day! This was a quiet thoughtful book. It didn't smack you in the face with life-changing ideas. It seemed to be more of an osmosis-type experience. It was a simple story about a man changing his mind with a little help from his traveling companion. And with that simple premise, the author encompassed so much of the human condition; so much of our commonality, our thoughts, dreams, hopes, questions about life. I closed the book often to contemplate something the holy man had said, to soak it in. I found myself to be so at peace that sometimes I drifted off to sleep with the book in my lap (an attempt at meditation).

The messages in this book will stay with me. I plan to do more reading along this line and it is because of this book.

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WASP type wrestles with the East.

I liked this book a lot. It helps quite a bit that it's right up my alley, in that the Eastern view of reality, of God, has always been a lot more interesting to me than Christianity. And, I have a lot of the same questions that the narrator, Otto, had. Finally, I've been finding that I like reading about people's travels, to some extent. So, a book where a holy man from the East, travels halfway across America by car with a guy who more-or-less respectfully doubts the worldview of said holy man works for me.

I could care less about food, about reading about it, so I had little sympathy for the narrator's need to have just the right food, and little interest in the descriptions of what he ate. Personal taste. I was also a little annoyed with some of his doubts, because I'm more willing to believe what an Eastern holy man might have to say. But, I liked his reflections and musings, and his account of trying to understand what was being imparted to him. Some of the things the Eastern holy types have to say - I enjoyed vicariously experiencing the reactions of an American middle class guy, as he worked it out. Now, I need to go see what else this guy, Roland Merullo, has written.

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