The Aspern Papers vs The Celestine Prophecy - An Adventure: Which Should You Read?

The Aspern Papers Henry James · 1890 ★★★★☆ 3.7 96 pages · ≈ 1 h 47 m · Demanding

“I HAD taken Mrs Prest into my confidence; without her in truth I should have made but little advance, for the fruitful idea in the whole business dropped from her friendly lips.”

With a decaying Venetian villa as a backdrop, an anonymous narrator relates his obsessive quest for the personal documents of a deceased Romantic poet, one Jeffrey Aspern. Led by his mission into increasingly…

The Celestine Prophecy - An Adventure James Redfield · 1993 ★★★★☆ 4.4 267 pages · ≈ 4 h 57 m · Moderate

“I drove up to the restaurant and parked, then leaned back in my seat to think for a moment.”

Are three decades of interest in modern physics, ecology, mystical religion and interpersonal psychology finally synthesizing into a new spiritual "common sense"? Are we now beginning to live this new common sense? Can…