1 comments about The Soul School: Confessions of a Passenger on Planet Earth.

1. Having just read Mr. Murchie's first book Men on the Horizon I felt a sense of oneness with his spirit after reading The Soul School. If life is a school for the soul, Mr. Murchie is one of its best Headmasters as he teaches his readers who share in his life through his lucid and poetic writings. His book The Music of the Spheres influenced my early life and gave me some direction toward eventually discovering my own comet last year C/1998 H1 and this, his most recent masterpiece, I think shall influence this later part of my life to help me discover myself. Here is an honest man who, I think, can look at himself in a mirror without regret and say that he has here written, with all its pluses and minuses, an inspiring story of his life which may be a shining example to all mankind. Patrick Stonehouse atrick@rocketmail.com

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1. Sergio Pitol, escritor mexicano, Premio Cervantes, es uno de los más importantes en Iberoamérica.
   En este libro se consagra, como testigo de primera línea, como un observador exquisito, de los usos y costumbres en la antigua URSS. Un libro pleno de referencias bibliográficas y culturales, de imágenes bellamente descritas. Sólo un gran conocedor, como el Sr. Pitol, podría darnos un retrato tan notable.

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5 comments about Nub: Story of an Ex-Cripple.

1. If you're looking for an uplifting story about a man who has overcome so much in his life, this is it.
   
   Barrios' story is rich and everyone can garner something from it.



2. What an inspiring story. As the reader you are literally drawn into Emile's life. You feel his pain, sorrows and his plight as he overcomes many obstacles watching his story unfold as he grows into the man he is today. This is a story for everyone and comes highly recommended.



3. Emile shares some of the lessons of his life in an easily readible way by which the reader can both identify with him and learn the same lessons.
   
   This book is a valuable contribution to humanity that will contribute to the well-being of anyone who reads it. I highly recommend it as a gift for anyone who suffers from the symptoms of having "missing pieces" to the grand puzzle of our existence.



4. probes feelings of self-loathing everyone experiences, but not everyone overcomes. A profound work that fills the spirit with the sense of possibility. Well written and engrossing, the book was difficult to put down.



5. Emile Barrios was born into a middle class Catholic family in southern Louisiana in the 1950's. He was just like any of the other kids on the block...
   
   Or was he?
   
   Little Emile had a few birth defects. He was born with one normal foot and one half foot. He was even more noticeably born with a nub of a hand; two fingers on either side of his hand. Two fingers that wouldn't connect even to form a claw. As a child young Emile knew that he was different but this was really accented in his mind when he started to school. He wasn't just different in that he didn't look the same and he couldn't function the same with all of his appendages. Emile also had regular visits to the "crippled children's clinic". He wore uncomfortable, hot leg braces. He couldn't participate in sports. And he developed an "outer Emile" and an "inner Emile". There was one Emile who was positive and the other Emile who grappled with the "why me's" of his situation; the Emile who chose to hide.
   
   Emile Barrios tells the story of how he became the man he is today. How he learned not only to hide his feelings but to also to cope with other's around him, from the interested and curious to the insensitive to the down right rude. And Emile recounts how he learned to accept who he is and has been in the past in order to rid himself of the mentality that made him a cripple - how he worked to make his mind and spirit whole.
   
   Emile Barrios has written a well examined autobiography that will be an inspiration to anyone who recognizes and is honest about their short comings. The book is well written and well thought through. It makes an easy read but also leaves the reader thinking - and empathetic. And empathy is a level beyond understanding. Emile Barrios did a good job in getting this point across.