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Title: Message from Forever by Marlo Morgan ISBN: 0-06-019107-4 Publisher: Harpercollins Pub. Date: 01 June, 1998 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.22 (9 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Sad, Painful, Uplifting, Flawed
Comment: A young Australian aborigine woman gives birth to twins somewhere in the wilderness. It is a time when the aboriginal culture is rapidly being decimated by well-meaning but oppressive whites. The little girl is shipped off to a cruel Catholic boarding school. The little boy is shuffled here and there but eventually ends up in America, with an adoptive family who treat him with unbelievable insensitivity. Ultimately he finds himself imprisoned on death row.
The struggles of the two children are portrayed with clear, lucid prose in the first half of the book, a tale of great sadness and pain. In the second half, Beatrice, the girl, runs off in search of her ancestral roots, and finds The Real People, a handful of aboriginies who still live in the bush and are trying to maintain the old ways. Unfortunately this part of the book is not believable. The characters are one-dimensional, too, too good; and their coversation consists of long speeches full of new age jargon. The language they use is totally out of character with the simple people they are supposed to be. The author describes a utopian society of people with great wisdom and psychic powers, set against the cruel, intolerant and bigoted white society.
At the conclusion of the book, brother and sister are reunited, at least make contact, and she leaves him with a document that tries to summarize all the wisdom she has learned from the Real People.
In fact, some of it is good. The author has some wisdom to share and it is indeed uplifting. But it is not written in a believable and coherent way. Does any of this really come from Australian aboriginal culture? Or is this Celestine Prophecy Down Under? Hard to say. The presentation is just too one-sided, too slanted, to be really convincing.
Rating: 1
Summary: TOTAL FICTION! Needs a zero star rating!
Comment: The "Message" of this book is new-age nonsense not wisdom from the aboriginal people of Australia. It's an example of further exploitation and misrepresentation of native people. Save your money!
Rating: 5
Summary: A most thought provoking story that can change your thinking
Comment: I came across this book accidently when on vacation and found it to so riveting that I could not put it down until finished. I have told others who would appreciate Marlo's openness to the experiences that unfolded to her. How fortunate she followed...what else could she have done! She was called!
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Title: Mutant Message Down Under by Marlo Morgan ISBN: 0060926317 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 02 August, 1995 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Mutant Message from Forever : A Novel of Aboriginal Wisdom by Marlo Morgan ISBN: 0060930268 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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