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2.33 AVERAGE
2.33 AVERAGE
"We Baby Boomers felt entitled to be able to experiment with any form of self-indulgence on offer, spiritually and materially." (2)
I read a lot, and a lot of what I read is aimed at edification and self-improvement. Maybe, my reasoning goes, somebody out there has the answer to the problems I'm experiencing and I can get their wisdom secondhand. A shortcut to enlightenment is mighty appealing. So I devour Alan Watts and Deepak Chopra, Thich Nhat Hanh and Robert Anton Wilson, Terence McKenna and David Burns. And I can't be the only one; without an audience of seekers in the market for a jenn-yoo-wine guru of their own, there wouldn't be such a wealth of titles to choose from. So I really, really wanted to read Any Guru Will Do, hoping for a funny story from a kindred spirit, perhaps something like Jon Ronson or even A.J. Jacobs, with interviews and ruminations on what the experts have to say. But this book turns out to be a dialogue-heavy autobiography, very light on exploration of anything outside the author's personal experience. It's not very generalizable to the reader, and I quickly lost interest.
2 stars. Did not finish.
I read a lot, and a lot of what I read is aimed at edification and self-improvement. Maybe, my reasoning goes, somebody out there has the answer to the problems I'm experiencing and I can get their wisdom secondhand. A shortcut to enlightenment is mighty appealing. So I devour Alan Watts and Deepak Chopra, Thich Nhat Hanh and Robert Anton Wilson, Terence McKenna and David Burns. And I can't be the only one; without an audience of seekers in the market for a jenn-yoo-wine guru of their own, there wouldn't be such a wealth of titles to choose from. So I really, really wanted to read Any Guru Will Do, hoping for a funny story from a kindred spirit, perhaps something like Jon Ronson or even A.J. Jacobs, with interviews and ruminations on what the experts have to say. But this book turns out to be a dialogue-heavy autobiography, very light on exploration of anything outside the author's personal experience. It's not very generalizable to the reader, and I quickly lost interest.
2 stars. Did not finish.