Healthy Living Books Books

Rating: - Where was the voice of reason?
Embarrassed and angry with myself that I gave in to the hype and bought the "dummy". Now that the general public have read this book, there is a lot of balanced feedback; but, where was the voice of reason among the early reviewers / journalists who hyped it up, too much! This has to be one of the purchases that I regret to this day and honestly feel "mugged"!

Amazon, bring "look inside" / "listen to a sample" for the audio version for all books, please!

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Rating: - All things in moderation .... better with Napoleon Hill for sure
I enjoyed this book when I read it and have given copies to friends and family to read. Take out the nonsense areas like its all your fault when something major goes wrong .... scary statement indeed, and some of it makes sense. You can have so much more in life and all it takes is focus and belief ... if you can truly beleive it, you can acheive it. So much of this is taken out of context and without the incredible power that comes from the great master himself Napoleon Hill. I would urge you to read or listen to the 6 set cd series by napeleon hill ... Tony Robins and so many others have learnt and preach his teachings from almost 100 years ago ... it is the real thing !! The Science of Personal Acheivement. Its called. Its the real Mccoy. Rhoda and some great gurus of today seem to have taken what he has said all that time ago and paraphrased it. Hope you enjoy it !! Its also downloadable if you look around.

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Rating: - A brilliant introduction to the Law of Attraction
Early last year I got hold of a copy of the Secret by Rhonda Byrne. Who can deny that the title is wonderful for catching your attention? The book serves as a brilliant introduction to the law of attraction, which is an interpretation of the power behind the universe. The book is based on the author's Secret DVD which has interviews with a number of notable law of attraction speakers. The book contains some of the choicest quotes included in the DVD and new commentary by Rhonda Byrne. This is a great book that helps you gently dip your toe into this fascinating genre.

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Rating: - Absolutely Ridiculous
This book is so Ridiculous I barely know where to start. A well meaning friend bought this book for me as he himself was halfway through it and thought it was 'amazing', I believe he even had pictures of things he 'wanted ' stuck up on his wall which the universe was going to provide. It truly is a complete joke of a book, any level headed individual will either read it and find it hilarious or read it and become quite angry, my reaction to its drivel was a mixture of the two.

This book is an insult to history, economics, Physics, Maths, Chemistry and Biology!

Rhonda Byrne has been watching far too much Living TV

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Rating: - Just Hot Air
I agree with most of the high rating reviews, the book is a good reminder of already available materials around self motivations.

BUT

The promise of the book is highly exaggerated, the materials is not new; in fact you will come across it one way or another in most self development books. I just found it very commercial and the whole fiasco of the name and the way marketed is misleading and exaggerated for what actually can provide.

For example, it mentions "it's scientifically proven that a positive thought, 100s times more powerful [Electronically/plus strength] than a negative thought". Now, I can tell you that there are no researches or any scientific fact currently available which support this statement.

In a nutshell: Strong marketing techniques, positive thinking and goal setting contents. All blended together then exaggerated.

Not recommended by me.