Part of my "Books Read" list I found while moving/unpacking.

This book began it all..Peaked my curiosity about Buddhism..I haven't looked back ;)

I enjoyed this book because we all can learn something from it. I've been to that area of the world (Nepal and the Evereast region), and it would be my dream to snowboard and explore that area. The story at times got too unbelievable, but overall it is a good read.

A fun way to study Nirvana and Buddism..If englsih isn´t your first language it´s also a good way to spice up you vocabulary....

WOW!!!! READ THIS!!!!!

Fun and insightful read of one person's view of Buddhism and enlightenment. A tad confusing at times and not the best grammatically, but I enjoyed it all the same.

Surfing the Himalaya's

tSurfing the Himalaya's was a pretty good book but was kind of boring to be honest. The book was written by Fredrick Lenz. This book mainly talked about religions and a teenager who snowboards and is in the mountains. The young boy was in Nepal at the time to snowboard when he runs into a Monk who is Buddhist. The monk teaches the man ways to be happy by telling him stories and past experiences and the monk is trying to enlighten him. This book was pretty easy to read and did not have to much vocabulary words that I did not understand. The author had a bit too much description I believe for explaining happiness and describing the mountains and so on. Although this book talked about an adventure in the mountains it seemed to be interesting.
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tThere was a connection when I was reading because the teenager was a snowboarder while I have never been skiing or even in the mountains ever in my life and the author explained what the feel was like in the mountains. Before reading this book I didn't know anything about the Himalayas and after reading this book I learned a lot of new and interesting facts. After reading I learned that Nepal is the worlds tallest mountains. The monk taught him that he could master any mountain. The boy said that he had a feeling that he knew the monk somewhere and he acted like the monk was some type of god and a sacred person. The author wrote this book in first person which was kind of hard to understand and grasp rather than a difference character or person. I believe it is easier to read a book when it is not in first person because the characters are easier to connect to.
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tIf I had to recommend this book to anyone it would be to people who like mountains or exploring in places rarely people go or find interesting to them. Also, I would recommend this to people who have a strong belief in religion because without the monk on this book the snowboarder wouldn't be so content and satisfied with his life. I would give this book a 3 out of 5 stars because I didn't relate to the character that much and the description was sort of weird to me. The best part of the book I thought was when the snowboarder was being taught different meditations and techniques to become more happy. Although this book was interesting I also thought the book seemed out of order when talking about the snowboarder and the monk.