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Richard Matheson's bestselling novel, What Dreams May Come , the basis for the hit movie starring Robin Williams, touched numerous readers with its convincing portrait of life after death, based on years of research and personal reflection. Like that earlier book, The Path is a work of inspirational fiction that comes straight from Matheson's own deeply held beliefs about spirituality and true nature of existence. The story of one man's encounter with an enigmatic stranger who imparts to him ten lessons about the true realityof the soul; The Path is not so much a novel as a philosophical dialogue about life and the afterlife. Everyone who read What Dreams May Come and wants to know more about Matheson's personal philosophy should take a walk along . . . The Path . --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Makes you think of how you live your life, Jan 6 2005

By	Michael Beveridge (Toronto, Canada) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)

This review is from: The Path: A New Look at Reality (Hardcover)

Ive read a lot of Mathesons book, and I really did enjoy this one. It is a very short book, but you take soo much out of it.
Its almost more of an esay about politics, life, spirituality and everything in between, but its written as almost just a plain old conversation between two people.
Great book, more provoking than story.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Thought provoking, Jul 3 2003

By	O. Freasier "Z's Mom" (New Jersey) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: The Path: A New Look at Reality (Hardcover)

I loved this book! I read it after reading two of his other books and I thoroughly enjoyed all of them. The Path is, like I said, thought provoking and I'd recommend it to anyone who is open minded and interested in exploring other spirituality avenues.

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2.0 out of 5 stars A Little Too Sparse, Jan 14 2003

By	Michael Samhain (St. Louis, MO) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Path: A New Look at Reality (Hardcover)

As Richard Matheson states in the beginning of "The Path," the goal of this book was to present the reader with a high-level introduction to the works of Harold Percival through a series of ten fictional walks.

The problem is that Matheson's presentation is too high-level, so much so that many of the ideas are over-simplified, or only vaguely referenced. Because of this, the concepts lose their impact, and many times appear as rehashed material from many other books available today.

I enjoy a majority of Matheson's works, and was excited to find this extension of some of the concepts and ideas from "What Dreams May Come," but unfortunately, Matheson was too sparse on the details. I don't feel any more compelled to pick up the works of Percival than I did before. I wish Matheson would have expanded this book to twelve or fifteen walks, or else would have made the walks longer.

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3.0 out of 5 stars A book of sermons
First of all, I like much of the work of Richard Matheson. He is a good storyteller. sometimes he is brilliant. This is not a work of brilliant storytelling. Read more

Published on Sep 25 2001 by Richard D. Shewman

3.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant until page 140
The book is thought provoking, easy to read and highly believable. That is until a few pages before the end. Read more

Published on April 19 2000 by P. Kelly

5.0 out of 5 stars A Book for all Beliefs
No matter what your religious or spiritual belief system is based on, as long as you have an open mind and a willingness to consider new thoughts, you will enjoy this book. Read more

Published on Jan 5 2000

4.0 out of 5 stars I loved this book!
I picked up this book because I saw that it was the same author as What Dreams May Come and I was NOT dissapointed. Read more

Published on Jun 19 1999 by C. DeRose