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Loading... Right Here, Right Now (1999)by Trey Ellis
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Through the Self-Help Glass -- Very Darkly Meet Ashton Robinson, a dashing playboy whose suave charm, worldly pretensions, and ecstatic seminars have made him one of the most successful motivational speakers in the country. After an encounter with the synergistic effects of marijuana and expired cough syrup, Robinson renounces his life as a self-help icon and pronounces himself a spiritually enlightened master. Overnight he invents the world's newest religion, based on meditation, bungee-cord jumping, tantric sex, and The Gap. Has he stumbled upon one of the great truths of the universe? Or has the same outsized ego that fueled his success as a motivational speaker driven him over the edge? With surgical wit and acuity, Trey Ellis has written a titillating and trenchant tale about the revivalist fervor of the American self-help industry. Right Here, Right Now is a corrosively funny and provocative exploration of the impulse to self-improvement -- one of the most salient features of American popular culture at the close of the twentieth century. No library descriptions found. |
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The narrator is the only fully fleshed out character in the book, which is expected since he seems to be a narcissist and the story is told in the first person, but it makes for a dull read. The novel isn't laugh-out-loud funny and I felt badly enough for the disciples that I started to skip through the sections where the narrator has them go through increasingly bizarre experiences in the pursuit of enlightenment. The second half of the novel felt less like satire and more like a demonstration of some people's stupidity, which is mean-spirited. (