The Book Depository Holy Cow! by Sarah MacDonald
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Description: Holy Cow! : Paperback : Transworld Publishers Ltd : 9780553816013 : : 21 Jul 2008 : After backpacking her way around India, 21-year-old Sarah Macdonald decided that she hated this land of chaos and contradiction with a passion, and when an airport beggar read her palm and insisted she would come back one day - and for love - she vowed never to return. The Book Depository Holy Cow! by Sarah MacDonald - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
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Author: K. L. Smith
Rating: 5
Review: This is a real rollar-coaster ride, thouroughly enjoyable from the word go. The trip to the Kumba Mela Festival is both horrific and hilarious at the same time. Also the description of Sai Baba had me in stitches...but dont get me wrong there is a lot of good honest spiritual truth in this work, and one feels as if one is actually there going along for the ride alongside her. I learnt more about India in the first three chapters of this book than I have from many others. The one major flaw is her incorrect quotation of the famous Maha Mantra, (the Hare Krishna Mantra) which you would have thought she would have at least got right in a book like this for authenticity's sake. Dont miss this book, it's sure to become a classic and who knows maybe in the future, a film also.
Author: Sharon Maas
Rating: 2
Review: This is a very shallow take on religions in India. For a start: it was not a genuine search. The author seems to have considered a way to fill out her time in India, and decided that this was the most profitable. It did not seem to be motivated by a genuine quest for spirituality; why else would she only choose the most gimmicky, the most outlandish examples of the chosen religions? For example, to represent Hinduism she chose the Kumbh Mela, the Hugging Saint, and Satya Sai Baba. To represent the Sikhs she chose a group of Western Sikh wannabes. It seems to me that a genuine seeker would be looking for the best ahd highest and most noble expression of the said religion. Both Hinduism and Sikhism can offer exalted, beautiful, truly breathtaking insghts into the human situation, but you do have to look hard for these examples; they are not on the shelves of the spiritual supermarket. And of course, that wouldn't make a quick, Bridget-Jones-type take on the subject, with a shallow title like Holy Cow, now would it? True spirituality is not at all gimmicky, and thus not commercial. This author was after commercial, and that's what she delivered, but as a serious examination of spiritual paths in India it's a big fail. The proof is that she never did find "her" own path. It all just peters out at the end, without the author coming to any conclusion as to which, if any, spiritual path is right for her, or any explanation as to why not.
