Breakfast with Buddha
A Novel

What a wonderful surprise this book was! I came upon it by accident and found all of the secrets of life oozing out of the pages. It was funny, and tragic and overwhelming all at the same time. In the tradition of the great across-America reads, it offered little snapshots of our country as Mr. Otto......more

Sometimes, a book comes along just when you need it. When I was twenty-something, I read "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" and it pushed me toward becoming a different kind of human being. I've read a lot of "spiritual guide" literature, since then, learning more or less about the eternal s......more

This isn’t the kind of book I usually read, and when I first started I though it was going to hover dangerous close over the self-help line. It took less than a chapter for me to realize that wasn’t true. This book was not only refreshingly original on a “religious/inspirational” level, but it was r......more

There are moments in this book that are great. The chapter when he stays at an inn where he went with his wife is touching and real. There are some sweet moments between the main character and his travel partner...the guru Rinpoche. I liked the idea of the book more than the book but it does have so......more

On The Road With Buddha Novelistic road journeys frequently become spiritual journeys. So it is with Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" (1957)and "The Dharma Bums" and so it is as well with Roland Merullo's novel fifty years after Kerouac's: "Breakfast with Buddha (2007)." We don't have beats, mad sex, and......more