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The Secret |  | Author: Rhonda Byrne
Publisher: Atria Books/Beyond Words
Category: Book
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Rating:  2543 reviews
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Media: Hardcover
Edition: First Edition
Pages: 198
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Dimensions (in): 8 x 5 x 1
ISBN: 1582701709
Dewey Decimal Number: 131
EAN: 9781582701707
ASIN: 1582701709
Publication Date: November 28, 2006
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How to use information for the betterment of your life.
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 Outstanding July 30, 2010
Angela Kent
This book is worth the time and energy. If you enjoyed 48 Laws of Power you really will enjoy the Secret.
For my daughter. July 26, 2010
Jude (Illinois)
Purchased this for my daughter who seems at times to have low self-esteem. I can only tell you what she says about the book. She has enjoyed what she has read so far.
 To call this book garbage is an insult to garbage July 24, 2010
Thomas J. Cooney (staten island, ny)
I could not post this with zero stars, lamentably. This is at it's best disingenuous, trite and ill informed. At its worst it is irresponsible and dangerous.
The fact of the matter is books like this is what gives manifesting and metaphysics a bad name. I am not sure what repulses more, the author, for scheming a quick buck on a magic genie type book or my fellow man, that sadly never seems to want to disprove that there is a sucker born every minute.
This book is an affront to all authors who delve into the power of thought and mind, conscious and subconscious, et al. It is a wonderfully marvelous and rich field of study with grand merit. The problem is there is effort to become self actualized and to accomplish becoming fully engaged.
This book is insulting. Imagine willing yourself to be healthy and lean - and eating all the ice cream you desire?!?!
You can clearly blue print the life you want, but perhaps you should be meditating on having the intestinal fortitude and courage to accomplish a grand life and healthy body. People want this book to be true because it is easy.
I need to stop this review ... there is bile in my mouth from recalling it!
The biggest argument against the secret is the current economy July 23, 2010
J. Edgar Mihelic (Chicago)
In sales, training for a job I no longer have, the training manager `treated' me and my colleagues to a movie. Now, the anticipation of breaking the monotony of a classroom situation with a movie presentation is buried deeply in American students. The title came up and it was the video version of the best-selling _The Secret_. I watched this, and diligent student that I am, I took notes. I had very little conception of just what I was in for. I knew that it was a highly selling book.
The 'Secret', for those out of the know is simple. All you have to do is ask the universe for stuff and it gives it to you. I wish that were a gloss of the explanation, but that seems to be it. If I had my notes from that day, I would most likely see things like `Magical Thinking!' or other such pithy refutations of the main premise of the video as I argued against it as I watched it. I remember that my main beef with the video was that of the dozen or so speakers advocating the `Secret' that were featured as authors, I had heard of exactly none of them. If the secret is so powerful, I asked, why are these people not successful enough that I had ever heard of them. When the lights came up, the trainer asked about our opinions of the video. I can't remember what I said, but I hope it was positive enough for him.
I understand the appeal of the secret. People like stuff. Our capitalistic economy makes you break the tenth commandment all the time. Happiness is not just related to material accumulation, but happiness is material accumulation. The advertising and the media assure us that this is the uncritical mindset that people live their lives in. I have seen people play general positive thinking up in both scholastic and professional life, and I kept wondering about the efficacy of it. In my opinion staying positive is detrimental to critical thinking and maintaining a realistic and non-exhausting baseline. The biggest argument against the secret is the last two years. How many people in 2007 started asking for less stuff?
Fundamentally Flawed July 22, 2010
PDT 1060
Ok fine I get it.
We need to think positively to adequately live our lives, but that's like 1 step in a 10 step process to really getting what you want.
The best advise I ever got was "Life is what you make of it", and it's true, life requires a lot of effort. But to only advise people to "think and it will appear", is preposterous.
The only path to pure happiness is through action - getting everything God blessed you with out of your system and into the world. That's a paraphrased Russell Simons quote.
Happiness is not crossing your fingers and really, really, REALLY hoping for the best...that's just empty hope.
This chick also 100% stole this book from a book written in the 1800's by Wallace D. Wattles titled "The Science of Getting Rich". That book is available for free online...not sure where but it's out there.
Lame book...don't waste your money.
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