Amazon.com Review
Once again Frederick Lenz (author of the bestselling
Surfing the Himalayas) uses snowboarding as the metaphor for maneuvering through the ice and powder of life. Our snowboarding hero must solve the spiritual riddle of "the missing dimension" before he can reach the next level of enlightenment. Paradoxes,
Bruce Lee movies, Tibetan tantric texts, and a love affair with a Danish woman offer the puzzling clues and exotic visuals.
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From Library Journal
Lenz achieved notoriety with his first book, Surfing the Himalayas (Warner, 1995); this second installment to a planned trilogy slogs through much of the same territory. This time, as his alter ego snowboards in the Himalayan mountains of Nepal, in addition to (Zen) Master Fwap, Lenz has added a character called the Oracle and selections from "The Handbook for Enlightenment." There's also Nadia, a Danish sex partner and short-term soul mate. (Lenz's puerile fantasies result in some of the funniest sex scenes ever contrived.) Our hero defines himself in a pair of telling paragraphs. "What kind of person am I? I do just what I want to....I am just freaked out about taking on responsibilities. I want to be free, that's all." Lenz tells us, through Master Fwap and the Oracle, that one of the characteristics of enlightenment is an outrageous sense of humor. It would be comforting to think this work is a clever satire; unfortunately, Lenz seems to take himself most seriously. Recommended only for collections where his previous book circulated well.
-?Janet N. Ross, Sparks Branch Lib., Nev.Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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