God Is My Broker, Brother Ty
God Is My Broker, Brother Ty
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God Is My Broker

Author: Brother Ty, John Tierney, Christopher Buckley

Narrator: Mark Linn-Baker

Abridged: 4 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/05/2000


Synopsis

With this latest work of fiction, a collaboration with New York Times writer, John Tierney, Christopher Buckley promises to be every bit as hilarious and witty as in his previous audiobook, Thank You For Smoking. In God Is My Broker, Buckley aims his sharp humor at the self-help gurus; and the likes of Stephen Covey, Anthony Robbins, and Deepak Chopra had better watch out.

Down to their last $304, the abbots in this story make a bunch of money playing the stock market--and then get carried away in today's commercialism and self-help principles when they begin to market their homemade wine. From redecorating their decrepit digs in the "peasant chic" style to outrageous television commercials to a "Cask-cade" water slide and artificial alp behind their monastery, (and passing off "decent Chilean table wine" as their own $16 a bottle brew) these monks will stop at nothing to get to the top of the wine business!

God Is My Broker includes actual excerpts from the writings of Robbins, Chopra, and Covey, and lists hysterical questions about God, money, etc., that followers of the "progam" can ask themselves!

Reviews

3.5 Фирменный юмор Бакли на месте, местами ну просто очень смешно. Я, конечно, оценила стеб и над Уолл-стрит, и над книжками по саморазвитию, и над «Поющими в терновнике», но сюжет рыхловат, а закончилось вообще бог знает как, ближе к концу уже перелистывала бегом.......more

Goodreads review by Ray

This was perhaps the best book I have ever read. Not only was it funny and quirky, but it introduced me to Christopher Buckley as an author. Anyone who wants a quick read that will have you in stiches should pick up this book.......more

Goodreads review by Anita

4 1/2 stars. Really funny. An alcoholic failure of a stockbroker takes refuge in an upstate New York monastery that is in deep financial straits. When the monastery is near collapse he finds inspiration from Deepak Chopra and his daily breviary to pick stocks and save the monastery. I laughed out lou......more

Бакли прошелся по всем книгам о саморазвитии, в частности - о "как стать миллионером не вставая со стула" изданиях. Легкое чтиво, наталкивающее на правильное отношение к разного рода книгам с готовыми рецептами.......more