El Monje Que Vendió su Ferrari by Robin Sharma

This book genuinely terrible. Firstly, I thought that it was a fiction book with an actually exciting storyline, however, I was very wrong. It is a ‘spiritual fable’, which apparently means a fiction that is supposed to teach something by having a conversation between a recently converted Buddhist monk and an American lawyer. The book is laid out as a sort of late-night conversation between these two ex-colleagues (the monk was a successful lawyer before having a heart attack and subsequently turning into a monk). I cannot stress enough just how boring the book was and on top of that it was written terribly. Imagine this: a classic, cheesy informercial that only airs at 3am because it is just such a terrible product AND advertisement. That is how the book is written. It is safe to say that I simply couldn’t put myself through reading the whole book and so I stopped halfway and moved on to a Kinsella novel (review coming soon).

If there is anything that this ‘spiritual fable’ taught me it’s that life is too short to waste your time reading books you don’t like. Therefore, I do not recommend this book at all, unless you are really interested in Buddhist teachings and meditation techniques.