Trey Ellis

A self-help guru who makes a living from inspirational tapes (anyone remember tapes?) and seminars has a religious vision and starts a religion based on... a bunch of books from a New Age bookstore.

The narrator is the only fully fleshed out character in the book, which is expected since he seems to be a narcissist and the story is told in the first person, but it makes for a dull read. The novel isn't laugh-out-loud funny and I felt badly enough for the disciples that I started to skip through the sections where the narrator has them go through increasingly bizarre experiences in the pursuit of enlightenment. The second half of the novel felt less like satire and more like a demonstration of some people's stupidity, which is mean-spirited.… (más)

I only think you should read this book if -
1) You are a single woman (notice I didn't say a single mom as Ellis doesn't seem interested in any children but his own) interested in overly detailed bedroom scenes.
2) You have a high tolarance for and extreme lack of modesty
3) You think parenting SHOULD involve a lot of solo travel and the dating of extremely wealthy paramours.

Bottom line? It's a book about parenting and has a drunken turtle smoking on the cover. If you find that appropriate, then this book is probably for you. Otherwise there are better parenting memoirs.… (más)