A hilarious "self-help" novel designed to bring readers closer to God and closer to wealth, "God Is My Broker" tells the story of Brother Ty and "the 7 1/2 laws of spiritual and financial growth" he used to save his failing monastery. Movie rights sold to New Line Pictures. 10 illustrations Print ads. .
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The whole point of a monastic existence is to put aside worldly things. Brother Ty, the narrator of God Is My Broker, has put them aside with a vengeance, and his task is all the more impressive when you consider just how many he used to possess. "I had traded the life of a Wall Street trader," he tells us, "for the contemplative life, my briefcase for a rosary, the roar of the trading floor for Gregorian chant." Hunkered down in a rural monastery, he seems finally to have escaped the iniquities of Mammon, along with rush-hour traffic and a major drinking problem.
A vow of poverty, however, isn't what it used to be. The monastery of Cana is falling to pieces. And Cana Nouveau--the wine the brothers have always produced to sustain themselves--has hit a new, undrinkable low. As the desperate abbot looks to Deepak Chopra and Anthony Robbins for advice, Brother Ty begins to get financial tips from the Supreme Insider: "That day God had revealed Himself to be our broker." Sometimes, of course, the Lord speaks in mysterious ways. Even a stray line from the Song of Solomon may encourage the narrator to take a flier on Apple Computer stock: "Comfort me with apples. It sounded like a 'buy' recommendation to me." By heeding his divine broker at every turn, however, Brother Ty manages to transform the monastery into a financial powerhouse. His story amounts to the funniest bit of ecclesiastical satire since J. F. Powers's Morte D'Urban. What's more, the authors send up the entire self-help industry with hilarious expertise, concluding God Is My Broker with what even Deepak Chopra would recognize as a home truth: "The only way to get rich from get-rich books is to write one."
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Billed as a self-help novel, this satire features Brother Ty (for Tycoon) and his wondrous advice for getting rich with God's approval. Optioned by New Line Pictures.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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HE DAY BEGAN, AS ALL DAYS at the Monastery of Cana began, with the tolling of the bells and the shuffling of sandaled feet across a floor of cracked linoleum. Read the first page
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If you're at this site, then chances are you're sort of sick of business books. Probably, that's a kind way of saying it. Seeing another book by Stephen Covey or some other idiot spouting out laws, truths, and platitudes in big print, wide-margined, brightly colored business books inscribed with fulsome praise from every other author of big print, wide-margined, brightly colored business books probably makes you ill like you just ate something slimy that fell out of the nostril of a leprous hippopotamus.
Or else it makes you so angry that the rest of the business world (that is to say, all those bleating sheep that come up with words like "consens" and "mute points") expects you to converse in this stuff that you have to read it and be able to remember authors when you could be using your time more wisely like beating your head over and over and over again with bowling pin.
If that's the case, this is the book for you.
Buckley and Tierney have written the book that everyone who ever wanted to scream in despair and fury at The Oz Principle can worship. It is an excoriation of all the senseless business books that infect our lives.
It is the story of a group of monks who begin to become wealthy by pure happenstance (or perhaps through miracles) and find themselves suddenly regarded as business men. So, to run their business they hire marketing people, public relations people, and all begin to read books by Deepak Chopra and the like.
The result, as you might imagine, is not a very sound fiscal enterprise.
The wit is sharp and biting. It is required reading for anyone who ever read one of the 7 habits and thought that their life was changed.
It's an amazingly fresh example of why acumen, expertise, and intelligence can never be truly replaced.
It teaches the businessman to ignore the bleating of sheep.
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I guess I'm firmly in the growing Christopher Buckley fan base, and so I'm not sure how objective I am when I write a review of one of his books. Suffice it to say that this one -- written with collaborator John Tierney-- has the same crisp writing, the same kinds of unusual story lines and plot twists, the same kinds of colorful characters that made Mr. Buckley's other novels wonderful examples of worthwhile light reading.
In this story, a failed investment banker becomes a monk and in the incarnation of Brother Ty, he somehow becomes a catalyst in the ethically flawed rebirth of the monastery's wine. The story is a satire that takes aim at self-help books, but as someone raised Catholic (and practically living in the shadow of the Vatican), a former financial journalist, and a wine lover ... well, a story line that among other things takes aim at the Holy See, Wall Street, and Napa Valley hit close to home in too many ways for me not to love it.
By Tim Warneka
Format:Paperback
This is a fun light read that sends up Catholicism (I'm Catholic, and I found some of the "in" jokes to be quite funny! :-), self-help and other maladies of the 21st century.
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FUNNY GOTCHA BOOK!
Let's give credit to brother Ty for making us interested enough to read to the very end. I read this book in two days, and if you knew my schedule, you'd find it hard to believe. Read more
Published on Oct 15 2002
3.0 out of 5 stars
No longer funny when you know it's fake.
There IS NO Brother Ty, this book is a work of fiction. I found it at an outlet store, misfiled in the "religion" section, and bought it for about [$], which is about what it's... Read more
Published on July 28 2002
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Entertaining Audio Book
"God Is My Broker", by Brother Ty, with Christopher Buckley and John Tierney, Audio Cassette, Bantam Doubleday, 1998. Read more
Published on Oct 8 2001 by John P. Rooney
5.0 out of 5 stars
So Funny It Should Carry an FDA Warning on the Side!
This book is a pure delight. Whether the subject is Wall Street philosophies, "mission" statements for religious orders, fradulent e-commerce, self-help, the Vatican... Read more
Published on Aug 27 2001 by Harry W. Forbes
5.0 out of 5 stars
You'll laugh out loud
Hilarious! As an ex-Catholic living in Chopra Land (Berkeley), I nearly split my sides laughing. The footnotes alone are worth the price of the book. Read more
Published on Jun 28 2001
5.0 out of 5 stars
Pure fun and good reading...
The title of the book really dosnt do justice to the incredible humor youll find inside. Dont expect to learn any new "Laws" or improve your lifestyle, religeous beliefs... Read more
Published on May 26 2001 by M. Drenth
4.0 out of 5 stars
Choprah, Robbins, and now Brother Ty... ;-)
Buckley is, IMO, one of the funniest satirists writing today. In "God Is My Broker" he turns his sights on the self-help industry, with hysterical results. Read more
Published on May 18 2001 by Michael Rucki
1.0 out of 5 stars
Not what I expected
I originally thought I was buying a book to help me with buying stocks God's way. I didn't want a get rich quick scheme but a book to read that would help me with my religious... Read more
Published on April 13 2001 by Anita Yvonne Connelly
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good Laught
If you went to Catholic school or are Christian you will find this book very entertaining. Plus it pokes fun at the self help Gurus. Read more
Published on Feb 8 2001 by Leon Suty
2.0 out of 5 stars
Nice Concept, But BORING !
The idea of a book written as a parody of all those "self-help" books out there is a great idea, but this one, in my opinion, quickly becomes boring and lacks direction. Read more
Published on Dec 28 2000
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