Starts out alright, but when getting into dealing with samsara and re-birth, David just threw me off with his matter-of-factness about it all, not providing any proper arguments or reasoning to why this should be a real phenomenon. It is just too large of a camel to swallow. And the derisive comments that us westernes are essentially just too ignorant about these things didn't help.

Equally i'm not buying too much into this whole karma-ic seeds used to explain the good or bad fortunes for a person, throughout multiple lifes, or the continous mind-stream. In my humble opinion it merely amounts to victim blaming, saying that people always deserve what comes to them.

There's more things about the way that David interprets and explains buddhism that throws me off, and makes me dislike this book a lot more than it perhaps deserves. Buddhism might just not be for me at all, but I'm happy it's helping him.