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In his landmark 1980 novel, Way of the Peaceful Warrior, Millman blended fact and fiction to tell the story of a young man whose life is transformed by his encounter with a mysterious sage named Socrates. In this intriguing follow-up, Socrates takes center stage. It's late 19th-century Russia, and young Sergei Ivanov has been drafted into training to become one of the czar's elite guards. When Sergei saves the life of a brutal fellow student, Dmitri Zakolyev, during a difficult training exercise, he knows this act has actually made him an enemy... Millman's narration clips along, and he does a fine job with period flourishes. But the extended training chapters suffer from clichés of character and narrative, and dampen the suspense. A shocking surprise about the fate of Sergei's unborn child and a ham-fisted meeting between Sergei and his rival strain credibility, but Millman's fluid storytelling makes this an easy read. Agent, Candice Fuhrman. (Apr.)
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Millman's autobiographical Way of the Peaceful Warrior (1980) and 94-year-old gas-pump-jockey Socrates, the young Millman's guru in it, are fixtures in the canon of New Age self-actualization literature, thanks to 2.5 million copies sold. This prequel provides an adventurous backstory for Socrates. It begins in czarist Russia with orphaned Sergei fleeing the Nevskiy military academy. He survives in the mountainous wilderness by fashioning a lean-to against the face of a cave near a waterfall on a stream that hosts salmon, trout, and a beaver dam, and by hunting and drying food for the winter. By his second year as a mountain man (1890), he has turned 18 and become part of the wild, high country. A close call with a hungry bear in 1891 drives him to St. Petersburg, where he hopes to verify his grandfather's promise of buried treasure and use it to escape to America. Millman's smoothly written text recounts a spiritual journey while it tells a creditable survival--adventure-coming-of-age story. Way-farers will want to join the journey. Whitney Scott
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
A deffinate Journey,
By Drew (Toronto, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Journeys of Socrates (Hardcover)
If your reading this than you must have also read Way of the Peaceful Warrior and Sacred Journey of The Peaceful Warrior. If you have not read those 2 books, please read them first. They will plant a seed in you that will change your life. This is a great novel about the life journey of Socrates with an ending that will not only shock you... it may just bring tears to your eyes as it did to mine. Peace
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Enjoyable Russian background, good story, sprinkling of Peaceful Warrior philosophy,
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This review is from: The Journeys Of Socrates: An Adventure (Paperback)
This novel, though written later, is a prequel to Way of the Peaceful Warrior and Sacred Journey of the Peaceful Warrior. As with those novels, there is much debate on what is fact and what is fiction. From my perspective, that debate doesn't matter...this is an enjoyable read, which echoes the leanings and lessons of the first two novels.For pure reading enjoyment, I would rank this one with the Way of the Peaceful Warrior. The Journeys of Socrates is a better story, with less lecturing/preachiness of the original Peaceful Warrior, while the Way novel laid out Millman's personal philosophies in more detail. I also enjoyed the Russian history and culture included in this novel. Insights into both Russian Jewish plight and livings and Cossacks are provided. Sergei/Socrates experiences enormous heartache and challenges, some violently so, mainly to drive home the point of Mr. Millman's "peaceful warrior" teachings: martial artists/warriors train not to fight, but to gain peace through self-control and deeper internal understanding. By having half Jewish/half Cossasck Sergei experience and witness loss, feel revenge and work at overcoming those violent feelings, Millman drives home this point in a way that the setting of the first two books would not allow. I also enjoyed the views into the Russian "martial arts", without mentioning Systema. The concept of "bracing" (dousing yourself with cold water everyday to build up strength and immunities) and breathing methods are well weaved into the fabric of the story of Sergei's training. I would have enjoyed more detail on the "world council of martial artists" that is mentioned a few times towards the end of the book. A potential fourth novel, Mr. Millman? Final note: there is a certain amount of violence and loss in this novel, some scenes which may bother some readers.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Surprisingly good,
By FreeSpirit (QC, CANADA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Journeys Of Socrates: An Adventure (Paperback)
I never read the book The peacefull warrior, but saw the movie.I got this in a sale for a very cheap price, so I taught "Why not!?" And.... I read it in two days! I really loved it, a lot of nice quotations to remember. And loved the last entry by Dan Millman, that make it full circle (but I won't tell you!) Now I have bought the other two and knowing I would read them from a chronological point of vue, I believe it will make it much more deeper about the wonders of life and that everything happens for a reason. Overall, a good read that make you feel good. I would definitely recommended it to beginners in books about spirituality or anyone who likes good books with some truth in it, and a reminder about our path in life. :)
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