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God Is My Broker A MonkTycoon Reveals the 7 1/2 Laws of Spiritual and Financial Growth Christopher Buckley John Tierney Random House Inc 9780060977610 Books

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God Is My Broker A MonkTycoon Reveals the 7 1/2 Laws of Spiritual and Financial Growth Christopher Buckley John Tierney Random House Inc 9780060977610 Books

At his best, Christopher Buckley writes breathtakingly hilarious novels. God Is My Broker is one of them.

However, if you’re a devotee of Deepak Chopra, Tony Robbins, Stephen Covey, Dale Carnegie, or one of the many other high-profile self-help gurus who have streaked across the American firmament over the past century, you may not laugh. But who knows? Since Buckley takes on the Catholic Church with equal verve, you might enjoy the book, anyway.

In God Is My Broker, a certain Brother Ty has chucked a career on Wall Street — a singularly unsuccessful one, if the truth be told — and become a monk in an upstate New York monastery called Cana dedicated to the teachings of a masochistic saint. Unfortunately, Cana is on the ropes. Its source of revenue — sales of a uniquely awful wine called Cana Nouveau — has, shall we say, dried up. (Cana Nouveau is so bad that the Vatican blames a serious setback to the health of the Pope to a sampling of the stuff sent as a gift from Cana.) To reverse the monastery’s desperate financial troubles, Brother Ty decides to let God be his broker, looking for buy and sell signs in his breviary in combination with current business rumors. Meanwhile, the Abbot turns to Deepak Chopra, Tony Robbins, and their brethren for guidance. The result of these twin devotional habits are the 7-1/2 Laws of Spiritual and Financial Growth, which are conveniently spelled out as the story is told.

OK, so, you’ve gotta read it to make any sense of this proposition. And, unless you’re in thrall to a latter-day guru, you’ll probably enjoy it. A lot.

I’ve previously reviewed Buckley’s Little Green Men, Florence in Arabia, The White House Mess, and They Eat Puppies, Don’t They?, which I regard as a true classic of political satire. Before starting this blog, I also read and enjoyed immensely two other Christopher Buckley novels: Boomsday and Thank You For Smoking, which is probably his best-known work because of the movie of the same name.


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God Is My Broker A MonkTycoon Reveals the 7 1/2 Laws of Spiritual and Financial Growth Christopher Buckley John Tierney Random House Inc 9780060977610 Books Reviews

“God Is My Broker” maintains the witty repartee characteristic of Buckley’s writing. Many sections were laugh out loud funny. Though reality had to be suspended to believe the premise of the Cana monastery’s wine making operation, it was not too hard to understand how its notoriety could get so quickly out of control. I rooted all the way for the wayward monks. It’s a fun read with church machinations, self-help books and God’s word merrily confounding the lot.
Okay, if you are a Christopher Buckley fan, here is another of his wonderfully realistic satires...this time on the craze for self-help books. The way he introduces everything, down to the back jacket author bio, I'm sure there were people who bought this and really believed it was real. Accidentally found Buckley when I picked up his "Boomsday" book, and now I am hooked on collecting all of his works. A former Wall Streeter down on his luck visits a monastery and then the fun begins. He hears tips from a HIGHER source and the money starts to roll in, changing the outlook of the Abbot and the whole purpose of the monastery in hilarious ways. Buckley's books keep you going until the last page and are a welcome break from the sober news coming at you every day. I LOVE his books.
I consistently enjoy the books of Christopher Buckley. While I came to them through the books of his father, the son has a P.J. O'Rourke sense of humor. In this book it is mixed with a knowledge of both the Catholic faith and self-help religion. It takes a certain talent and self confidence to use relevant Latin and religious language as a punchline and expect us to get the joke. In case we are not capable, he protects us by including some footnotes (also humorous) that are unusual in books of this kind. The book accomplishes what I assume is its goal; providing happy hours to a reader who is wise enough to invest in Chris Buckley at each opportunity.
This book is easy and fun to read, but it did create kinda of psychological discomfort and defense within while I was reading it, because I am a devoted fan of self-help literatures for the past ten years - from James Allen and Napoleon Hill to New Age writers and to Covey and Tony Robbins, you name it...

It's not fun to see my fond beliefs ridiculed chapter after chapert in a spoof. But as I overcame my psychological resistance and started to see things from Buckleys' perspective, I began to question my "age-old" beliefs and the effectiveness of self-help books.

It's hilarious to read some reviews here that the reviewer had mistakened this title as a business or nonfiction book. If you sample any of the 7 and half laws in the book, you would instantly laugh out loud and realize what the book is about.

Highly recommend this title to those who believe in and read tons of self-help literatures like myself. Allow me to summarize the book with its 7th law - "The only way to get rich from a self-help book is to write one." I hope you borrow/buy this book and read it with an open mind!
Brother Ty has authored the best "self-help" book you could ever purchase. Much better than anything by Robbins, Covey, and Chopra (amongst the rest of the crowd). If you really want to know how to improve your life and your finances, and just can't seem to get it from the Self-Help gurus that have become so wealthy through touting their philosophies that rarely if ever actually make sense - then God is my Broker is the book for you.

Of course - being that Christopher Buckley contributed to this work, you are going to laugh. Out loud! Raucously! With that deep, abdomen squeezing, painful hilarity that you just can't help.
At his best, Christopher Buckley writes breathtakingly hilarious novels. God Is My Broker is one of them.

However, if you’re a devotee of Deepak Chopra, Tony Robbins, Stephen Covey, Dale Carnegie, or one of the many other high-profile self-help gurus who have streaked across the American firmament over the past century, you may not laugh. But who knows? Since Buckley takes on the Catholic Church with equal verve, you might enjoy the book, anyway.

In God Is My Broker, a certain Brother Ty has chucked a career on Wall Street — a singularly unsuccessful one, if the truth be told — and become a monk in an upstate New York monastery called Cana dedicated to the teachings of a masochistic saint. Unfortunately, Cana is on the ropes. Its source of revenue — sales of a uniquely awful wine called Cana Nouveau — has, shall we say, dried up. (Cana Nouveau is so bad that the Vatican blames a serious setback to the health of the Pope to a sampling of the stuff sent as a gift from Cana.) To reverse the monastery’s desperate financial troubles, Brother Ty decides to let God be his broker, looking for buy and sell signs in his breviary in combination with current business rumors. Meanwhile, the Abbot turns to Deepak Chopra, Tony Robbins, and their brethren for guidance. The result of these twin devotional habits are the 7-1/2 Laws of Spiritual and Financial Growth, which are conveniently spelled out as the story is told.

OK, so, you’ve gotta read it to make any sense of this proposition. And, unless you’re in thrall to a latter-day guru, you’ll probably enjoy it. A lot.

I’ve previously reviewed Buckley’s Little Green Men, Florence in Arabia, The White House Mess, and They Eat Puppies, Don’t They?, which I regard as a true classic of political satire. Before starting this blog, I also read and enjoyed immensely two other Christopher Buckley novels Boomsday and Thank You For Smoking, which is probably his best-known work because of the movie of the same name.