Max Pzoras is the poster child for the American Dream. The child of Greek immigrants who grew up in a dangerous New York housing project, he triumphed over his upbringing and became a successful Wall Street analyst. On the frigid December night he's involved in a violent street scuffle, Max begins to confront questions about suffering and mortality that have dogged him since his mother's death. His search takes him to India, where he encounters a mysterious night market, almost freezes to death on a hike up the Himalayas, ...
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Max Pzoras is the poster child for the American Dream. The child of Greek immigrants who grew up in a dangerous New York housing project, he triumphed over his upbringing and became a successful Wall Street analyst. On the frigid December night he's involved in a violent street scuffle, Max begins to confront questions about suffering and mortality that have dogged him since his mother's death. His search takes him to India, where he encounters a mysterious night market, almost freezes to death on a hike up the Himalayas, and finds himself in an ashram in a drought-stricken village. As Max seeks answers to questions that have bedeviled him--can yogis walk on water and live for 200 years without aging? Can a flesh and blood man ever achieve nirvana?--he struggles to overcome his skepticism and the pull of family tugging him home. In an ultimate bid for answers, he embarks on a dangerous solitary meditation in a freezing Himalayan cave, where his physical and spiritual endurance is put to its most extreme test. By turns a gripping adventure story and a journey of tremendous inner transformation, The Yoga of Max's Discontent is a contemporary take on man's classic quest for transcendence.
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The story gets you hooked from the very start. It's an easy read but pretty enjoyable. The scenes and conversations are concise and to the point and quickly gives you the picture of what's happening. There is no unnecessary stretches of scenes or long musings of the author. As the name of the book indicates, it's a story about a guy named Max. He is tall, not only in his physic but in his ambition. He was born in a ruin surrounded by poverty, drugs, alcohol, promiscuity, you name it. However, he works his way up the social ladder, up he goes into Trinity and Harvard and later he finds a decent job in New York. The story begins when Max and his sister are walking out of the hospital where their sick mother is taking her last breaths. On some incidents, he meets a vendor on that streets whose face shines from calmness and serenity and whose body is unconcerned by elemental. He introduces Max to the Yogis of Himalaya. Fed up with the circle of life and death, Max set into a mission to find a new life that brings him the kind of calmness he witnessed in the vendor's face. Abandoning his life, he starts a quest to self-completion, he undergoes unbelievable sufferings, yet emerges with unbelievable accomplishments...
