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Title: Return of Merlin by Deepak Chopra ISBN: 0-449-91074-1 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 05 March, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.21 (14 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: an interesting read
Comment: I picked up this book some years back when I was looking for a good Arthurian saga and was a little surprised at the way Chopra introduced the Arthurian characters. This was a strangely written tale in that it stepped apart from the traditional re-telling of the Arthurian legend. Chopra weaves the present and the past together to present a story that is interesting but at the same time a little bit hard to follow. It is quite obvious that the author intended to draw upon many symbols within his story but being unfamiliar with his works I have to admit that I didn't quite follow amidst all the stop and gos of the story. I didn't find that THE RETURN OF MERLIN flowed quite so nicely, in some places it appeared choppy and uneven.
Chopra seems to place a good deal on the traditional beliefs of reincarnation and the repetition of events throughout time, and his attempts to parallel the modern day events surrounding the young policeman Arthur McCallum and the fabled King Arthur are commendable. I am a bit disappointed simply because the modern day portrayal of Arthur takes away from the mythic essence of the legend and the Age of Chivalry... however Chopra manages to bring across the message that nobility and all that was once revered and honorable back in the day can still be attainable today.
Chopra appears to note that we can never be sure which paths we previously trod will return and help pave the ways we walk in the future. THE RETURN OF MERLIN is an interesting and challenging read, but I would prefer to give it three and a half stars- however since that option isn't available, four stars it is!
Rating: 3
Summary: sound and fury
Comment: The strength of the book is the clear distinct characters. There are dozens of them. They seem caught in an Alice In Wonderland universe bent on sadistically tormenting them. You care about them. It is a depressing book, despite the sudden happy ending on the last page. It comes across a bit like the Victorious Messenger in Mack the Knife -- not really believable after all that mayhem.
The book drives you mad leading you up to something momentous then pulling back with nothing happening over and over like some tantric sex exercise.
It reads as like a set of notes for a book typeset in random order -- all kinds of intriguing ideas that lead nowhere and have no ultimate significance.
At times it purports to be a detective novel with 1,000 clues. You wonder how the author will ever be able to stitch it together. He never does. The "clues", it turns out, are just madness -- red herrings.
Rating: 5
Summary: Chopra transcends the legend!
Comment: When Deepak Chopra publishes, readers take note. And when he writes about the
Arthurian Tales, what can one say? Intertwining his sense of mysticism, his intellectual scope, and a
fast-paced, very moving, novel in one is a bit much to hope for! But in “The Return of Merlin,”
Chopra has accomplished this feat. Not an “easy read” generally, Chopra’s magical touch with the
printed word maintains his reputation in this tale from Arthur.
In his introduction, Chopra writes that “The Return of Merlin” is about waking up the
wizard that sleeps within all of us, so that we can reclaim the field of pure knowledge and dream
anew world into reality, from the purity of our hearts.”
“Merlin” is another odyssey of life, a story of the traditional good vs. evil and the struggles
therein. It is a story that erases the confines of time. “To be alive now,” he writes, “is to be dead to
the past. To be alive now is to have life-centered, present-moment awareness...(and) you will discover the dance of the divine in every leaf, in every petal...in every rainbow...in every breath of every living being.” A momumental undertaking, to be sure.
Taking the Arthurian characters, from Merlin to Arthur to Mordred with a cast of many
others, and mixing in a complete disregard for any logical historical time frame, Chopra explores
this struggle, this “to be or not to be” of Camelot. Despite its frenzy, its whirlwind of action and
activity, “The Return of Merlin” is at once captivating, suspenseful, mesmerizing, combining
elements of spectacular hope and goodness and the depravitiy--nay, the power-- of penultimate
evil, Chopra shatters the pastoral hillsides of our psyche with this very-readable narrative.
Scholarly--yet quite readable!, the book is a page-turner. Chopra’s magic comes alive in a work
that is satisfactory and fulfilling.
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Title: The Way of the Wizard: Twenty Spiritual Lessons in Creating the Life You Want by Deepak Chopra ISBN: 051770434X Publisher: Harmony Books Pub. Date: 26 December, 1995 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams by Deepak Chopra ISBN: 1878424114 Publisher: Amber-Allen Publishing Pub. Date: January, 1995 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Way of the Wizard : Twenty Spiritual Lessons for Creating the Life You Want by Patrick Lynch, Audrey Kishline, Mother Teresa, Deepak Chopra ISBN: 0679449213 Publisher: Random House Audio Pub. Date: 26 December, 1995 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Unconditional Life : Discovering the Power to Fulfill Your Dreams by Deepak Chopra ISBN: 0553370502 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 September, 1992 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Quantum Healing : Exploring the Frontiers of Mind Body Medicine by Deepak Chopra ISBN: 0553348698 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 May, 1990 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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