Review Of Wm. Paul Young's Popular Book Cross Roads

The title of the popular book Cross roads by Wm. Paul Young suggests what you are going to find in the story. Antony Spencer is a powerful, wealthy man, arrogant, self centered, selfish and sometimes cruel – he is everything a person should not be. He suffers a cerebral hemorrhage and falls in a coma in the hospital. While in this condition, Antony awakens to find that he is in a different world. While being awaken in a completely different world, he finds that he is capable to interact with people from both worlds.

He goes from one to another world, communicating with each world as he exists in both places. In the new world, Antony meets new people who would have never met before. He interacts with their souls, their hearts, their minds. He is able to speak with them and to move from one person to another. Along his way he meets a boy with Downs Syndrome and his sister who suffers from her own ailment. He meets their family and friends and finds that he really has emotions. While in the other world, Antony meets a representative of God. He meets him, personally and close. He is forced to take a hard and deep look of himself and discovers that he does not really like what he sees. While cleaning the house, he is offered a second chance by God: he can return back and heal one person: not on his own, but with God's help. He feels that by healing himself, he can help other people, making the wrong right as well as making their lives better.

This trip of self discovery, of looking at himself is tempting and intriguing while giving the reader an opportunity to follow and to look at himself at the same time. The readers may discover things about themselves they will not be proud of. Or they may find themselves to be like the people with whom they live or work. This popular book “Cross roads” takes us on a journey of self discovery. Are we people who care too much about ourselves than for the others? While the story may be weak, the characters are still strong. This popular book “Cross roads” is an interesting book, although it is predictable in some parts.