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davida's review against another edition
4.0
I was surprised at how much I liked this. Lots of really interesting things about happiness and insecurity and failure and death. Fuck positivity and be happy!
will_sargent's review against another edition
5.0
God bless the author and his bemused introduction to a motivation seminar. He is consistently open to different viewpoints without being dogmatic or cynical, yet even he has a breaking point, and this is it. The rest of the book is a reflection of sorts on the wisdom of the ancients -- stoics and Buddhists gets a look in, as does Tolle, but he tries his best to range as far a field as possible, even going to a notoriously dangerous part of Africa to find out why the people there are just as happy with nothing as fat, privileged westerners.
I like this book unreservedly, which is unusual. I wish he had written a bit more about some of the contradictions involved (certainly Watts and the Xen a enter have some skeletons in their closets) but overall this is a solid piece of work.
I like this book unreservedly, which is unusual. I wish he had written a bit more about some of the contradictions involved (certainly Watts and the Xen a enter have some skeletons in their closets) but overall this is a solid piece of work.
aoutrance's review against another edition
4.0
"Why do you fear the eternal oblivion of death, [Epicurus] wonders, if you don't look back with horror at the eternal oblivion before you were born - which, as far as you were concerned, was just as eternal, and just as much an oblivion."In addition to vibing with my own point of view, The Antidote pointed me in the direction of several classics authors I would like to read more of, so overall a rousing success for the self-help genre.
manogirl's review against another edition
4.0
I still don't know what my ultimate conclusions are, after reading this. I found it enormously seductive, but I'm not sure that means anything, in the end. After all, I'm pretty sure I've always been one of those anti-positive thinking people. It didn't convert me to anything, precisely. Perhaps it confirmed something within myself? I don't know. I don't know if I ever will.
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