I suppose I shouldn’t start by saying that this was my least favourite book of all the books I have listed here. That being said, I think you should read it, if only to say, “I read it and didn’t like it.”
Now, I love Shirley MacLaine, the actress and I can also accept her “new age” ideas of past lives. Why, my sister is a reader of people’s past lives. However, to fill chapter after chapter of a book on your Camino journey with on-going discussions in the court of Charlemange, as a Jewish, Christian, Muslim young woman was something I had real trouble with.
Yes, at the age of 60 in 1990, the author walked the Camino France´s and for the most part it appears finished it. Albeit she had to dodge the paparazzi and celebrity seekers all the way, especially in Santiago – no pilgrim mass for you.
Maybe celebrities aren’t that lucky. They can never be an everyman, a non-descript Charlie Brown. They have their crosses or at least their stars to bear.
The Camino was well written, even the weird parts, but to be honest I skimmed pages and pages of drivel.