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I read The Green King over a decade ago. It has been, and still is, one of the biggest influences of my life, supplying me with perseverance, humility and strength. I can't believe how one story has been able to continually provide me with lessons about who we are, accepting what we have, and taking action in a way that is a win-win for everyone involved. It has taught me that everything we do has an impact, eventually, on everyone else in the world, so we should choose how we do things with care.

This book is about a man who is stripped of his identity and possessions, and reborn. He then manages to be the richest man on earth, through a very unconventional path. He can create from nothing, illustrating the point that it is not what we know or have, but how we take action that determines our power. He also know the power of contribution - that the only way to truly be successful is through creating a platform for others to win. Finally, he embodies integrity - the glue that binds all that he has relationhips with to be fiercely loyal to him.

I believe that I am in the process of changing the world. I am the head of a successful company now and have not sold myself out to get it there. This lessons from this book was a guiding spirit of how I shaped my relationships to get this company to where it is today. I am fortunate to have this book cross my path. I will feel more fortunate if if crosses my path again, because I have since lost it! (It's in one of my college boxes in my parent's storage room - I know it- but I still haven't found it when I go home to look for it)

The Green King is my all-time favorite book. I read it for the first time when on vacation in Aruba in '85 and have read it at least three times since. I found a first print in hardcover and it is the jewel of my book collection.

Reb Michael Klimrod's journey from a nazi death camp to the richest man in the world without anyone knowing him is remarkable. The detail that Sulitzer maintains in his book of the men that kept this secret is breath taking; the web of financial companies and transactions is exhilarating. This is a great book for anyone that enjoys high finance and a desire to fulfill a dream. 5 Stars are not enough for this book.

.......especially if you are just starting out (your life that is) and things arent looking too good. I read this book about 14 years ago when I was 17 living in Kashmir and not in a very positive frame of mind. It was an amazingly inspirational experience reading this book. I still remember reading it very fast even though it was very big but towards the end I slowed down to savour this almost other life I was immersed in. It is an amazing epic that definitely has had an influence on my life, although I don't know what all to attribute to the book but certainly an impossible amount of positivity - that has even weathered and survived the market conditions during the current dotcom demise ;^) - comes to mind.

The Green King to this day remains my favorite book of all time, although Frank Herbert's Dune series comes in a close second. After chancing upon the book here on amazon and refreshing my memory of it I definitely want to get hold of a copy and read it again.

Aamir

You will find a truly inspiring and motivational adventure that can really refresh your mind and strength your ambition.

I have read it more than 20 times and always find some thing new.

I have never EVER read anything better ! I haven't found any other book which has the same influence on me and on my life. The first time I read it ~4 years ago being in Russia in Russian language.

And of course I re-read it couple of times since that because this is a kind of book you can't read just once -- you want to enjoy it again and again.

You read it when you're having a black strip in your life, when you feel that everything you do is not good enough and you've got to do something right now but you don't know what and how. And this book gives you necessary strenth and confidence, it helps you to see the world as it is and your role in it, it virtually forces you to take control over your live again.

The first time I read this book being in Russia in Russian language. Many things passed off since that time. Well, I live in Australia now and still cannot forget the story I've read in my "previous life". And I'm still trying to find it in English.

And another thing I'd like to do is to meet Paul-Loup Silitzer and express my appreciation for this marvellous story, so detailed, so real and... so implausible. I hope it will happen one day...

i read The Green King in its Russian translation 12 years ago and it remains my most favorite book... i still keep it and it is much beaten up by now... i can definetely say that the power of this Sulitzer musterpiece was a major factor in shaping my adolesent character... now i am grown up and unfortunately find it impossible to have a strong figure in my life who i would want to be like, but there is something in The Green King that will make you either rediscover the feeling or help find it for a first time....

When I first read "The Green King" i was alittle bit intimadated by how big the book was. Then after reading it for awhile I could'nt put it down. This book is a wonderful story full of emotional twists! I recomend "The Green King" to everyone!

Ever have that opprotunity to take a long read along on a vacation...

The Green King is a story of a man and his dream, a dream to build a nation where there once was none. In his quest he faces Nazis and beuraucrats, two great evils and defies the first but not the latter.
A reclusive Multi-millionaire/billionaire it brings to mind Howard Hughes eccentric legacy and crosses it with Broffman ambition.

A book strikingly similar to a Archer or Clancy in it's ability to make the character and the idea come to life.

If you see this book snatch it up. It may be a long read, but one of the most enjoyable and enticing of any I have ever had. A true treasure.

I've read this book at least 20 times in the last 20 years. RMK has been a model for many of my life's challenges, and has always inspired to push for more. I'm anxiously await the download version to let the book continue in my life. It is one of twenty books I won't let go of, and the book I'd choose to take if given only one choice.

The green King is without any doubt one of the best tales ever told, about the life of a person with so much to give to the world, and so much to do and explore.For me it was amazing from the beginning, the tall blonde boy with the anger and pain of the concetration camp to the nearly end, Reb the one of the richest man alive fighting for a good cause. Read it love it, please someone do a movie about this extraordinary Man.