The Journeys of Socrates: An Adventure

Whether you read this as historical fiction or a tale of spiritual growth, it is an engrossing book. Beginning ine 1870 Russia, we follow the life story of Sergei Ivanov, nicknamed Socrates. Half Jewish, he is raised by his military uncle, completely isolated from any Jewish contacts after the death of his parents. Since Jews are persecuted, it likely ensures his safety, as does the survival and military training her receives.
The explanation in the last chapter completely scrambled my perceptions of the author. This is the 3rd book of his I've read. Millman has found a way to write interestingly about how to integrate values into one's life. I'll be getting more of his books because the lessons don't get outdated. I read this to my show more autistic son and it helped him control his behavioral challenges, tho I had to skip some of the sections on Zakolyev--I found those reinforced his anger and inability to cope. show less

Two and a half stars overall, for excessive reliance on god-spackle / theistic faith and some weird plot development- to be fair the latter might be bad editing in the audio version I listened to. Some good truths here but they are few and can’t overcome the at times juvenile writing. And in a way the triteness of it casts a bit of a retroactive pall on peaceful warrior. You’ll read it if you’re a Millman peaceful warrior completist. Otherwise I’d say just read peaceful warrior.

The Journeys of Socrates is the story of a young boy's journey towards becoming a man, through a life of hardship, trial and a lot of pain, and his ultimate triumph over his circumstances, and, himself. The journey passes through the vast and varied landscape of Tsarist Russia as well as the emotional and spiritual terrain of the young protagonist. The writing is so fluid that it took me only two or three sittings to complete this book; the pace doesn't flag even during the philosophical discourses. The main characters are well built and command the reader's care about their lives. The only thing that I felt lacking in this wonderful story is some background of Dmitri and some insight into the reasons behind his actions.
Having never show more heard of this author before a friend recommended this book to me, I now look forward to reading more books by [a:Dan Millman|1539|Dan Millman|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1327194022p2/1539.jpg], after reading this one. show less

My Sensei gave me homework for class to read a book “The Peaceful Warrior” of a college graduate who befriended a white hair sage working as a gas attendant. Though he was first irritated by him, he returned, became friends, and found the peaceful warrior within himself.

This is a story of Socrates, that white haired sage, who lived in Russia. His mother died and he was shipped to a military academy to become a Cossack. Trouble was he didn’t know he had Jewish blood in him and instead of becoming a legendary Cossack he just became a gas attendant.

The story was heart-wrenching watching him experience difficult times and people. I don’t want to get into too many details and spoil the twists and turns of the story. Just remember, show more it’s a much darker story and it’s the last third of the pages that the light begins shining at the end of tunnel. show less

This story tells the story of the early life an orphan child, Sergei Ivanov, who is placed in a Russian military school in the care of his Uncle. Born in Russia at the end of the nineteenth century Sergei is taught to become a great warrior. He was expected to take after his father, and fight to defend the Tsar, but he chose another path. He escapes from the military school and starts to search for a buried treasure that his grandfather had told him about. This treasure brings about his meeting with the girl who becomes his wife, and ultimately to the tragic event in which her life is taken in the most appalling way imaginable. He becomes set on revenge, and starts to track down her murderers. Along the way he meets many great men, who show more teach him that revenge is not the way forward. Instead he learns how to find peace and acceptance. This is an epic story, filled sorrow, horror, love, tragedy and triumph. show less

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