The Big Secret - Rated 
The book does not reveal the big secret - how on earth she managed to get millions of people to buy this half-baked pseudo-science. It regurgitates a few well-known precepts about the power of positive thinking and then throws in a load of garbage about the 'law of attraction'. According to this book if you have a big cut across your hand you should not think about the cut - that just attracts more cuts. You should think about a beautiful whole hand and - hey presto - it will come to you. Spiritual tosh for the feeble-minded.
So-so - Rated 
I watched the video, and it was good, with a high production value and a nifty, simple message/technique/philosophy that should be able to slot into your religion. The book is not nearly as good, loosing a lot of the slickness of the video. The basic message of The Secret is a good one, and definitely worth checking out and aligning yourself to, but as books go, I'd pass. I would recommend reading The Fates by Tino Georgiou. I loved it.
I loved it - Rated 
This book is an inspiration. I started using the ideas in this book on Friday and asked for a small windfall on Saturday. Lo and behold I won £105. I have since asked for parking spaces and other small things which have all materialised. I am toally hooked on this book. I believe in it and when I become a successful multi millionaire I will write another review to let you know how I get on. The power of positive thinking. A few people have given this book negative feedback. My words to them is just try it. It may surprise you.
we are all desperate creatures.... - Rated
here we are, born to suffer and die in an indifferent universe...clutching at straws - our evolved consciousness tormenting us with the inevitable, unpredictable fact of death.
So The Secret - first have a dumb idea, second write a dumb book full of easy answers....wait until dumb people buy the book and then the secret? spend your ill-gotton gains on something that makes you feel better until death finally does come.
nonsense - Rated
I can't believe I read this book. It is probably the most insulting piece of writing I've come across in a long time. Any pseudo-philosophy that propounds the idea that a person's circumstances are directly manifest from their beliefs/attitudes to life is not only wrong but appalling in the light of the hideous atrocities committed by human beings upon each other throughout history. According to the book, if you are having trouble, you should try your best to believe your problems don't exist, because if you think about them and worry about them, it sends out 'messages' that will attract similar problems to you. Poverty, then, is a result of you focusing on how poor you are, so if you live your life like a rich person you will attract riches. I never read such BS!
It follows, then, that 'cruelty attracts cruelty'. Tell this to the people of Rwanda, Burma, Tibet, Iraq! Tell it to the disabled, to AIDS or cancer victims, to murder victims. Anyone who could even hint that they are responsible for what happened to them must be sick. Even worse, it encourages you not to dwell on such things because you will attract them into your life. So lets all pretend they aren't happening and they will all go away. Don't look at or mix with the poor, the disabled, the overweight, the sad, because it might be catching. It's all about blaming the individual without accepting that society can hurt people as well as protect them. It all seems like Thatcherism dressed up in woolly pseudo-New Age philosophy to me. This book is utter rubbish. I'm sorry I read it - it is now in the bin where it belongs. Read it if you want to, but don't be taken in by it. Please disregard the 1 star I gave 'the Secret', but there isn't an option to give it no stars.
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