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3.75 AVERAGE
3.75 AVERAGE
A Spoiler Free Bit About The Book
The Power is from the author of the crazily successful The Secret and is all about love and positive thinking.
My Review
Now this is a little strange for me because not only is this book not YA, it's also not fiction at all. I'm not sure if this is why it took me so long to read or because I was swimming in the deep sea of NaNoWriMo.
The Power is unlike anything I've ever read. I've never read a self-help book before (can I even call it that?) but this one made me think that maybe I'd like to read another. It was so full of great positive lines that I would feel fantastic after picking it up and reading a little section. It made me buzz with smiles and try and put the teachings into action . . . but that's easier said than done. The longer I went from picking it up, the harder I found the message to digest. It seems a lot more difficult to action in the real world. Byrne is teaching that you can just ignore emotions like sadness and anger but in reality, this is a mammoth task. I don't know whether this can be counted as a flaw of the book but the further removed I become from it, the more I found I couldn't do what Byrne suggests.
I'm not going to pretend to be an expert on non-fiction books but I will say this: The Power was incredibly repetitive. Love is the strongest force. Love don't hate. Turn away from hate and negative emotions. If you believe you receive. They are all the basic messages. The Power seemed to me to be these phrases repeated and re-worded and over-explained over and over again. Don't get me wrong, the message was beautiful, but she seemed to run out of material insanely quickly. Although it is a phenomenal performance of writing so much and saying so little.
Though don't get the wrong impression, I did enjoy it, it just started to exhaust me after a while and I was glad when it was over. I'm grateful for the messages Byrne teaches in The Power, but I felt like I needed a lie down afterwards.
Evaluation
Overall 6/10
Would I recommend it? Yes. If you need a little pick-me-up, this book is for you!
Would I look up the author? No. I think sticking to my YA fiction is the best bet.
The Power was a beautiful read though rather too repetitive for me.
The Power is from the author of the crazily successful The Secret and is all about love and positive thinking.
My Review
Now this is a little strange for me because not only is this book not YA, it's also not fiction at all. I'm not sure if this is why it took me so long to read or because I was swimming in the deep sea of NaNoWriMo.
The Power is unlike anything I've ever read. I've never read a self-help book before (can I even call it that?) but this one made me think that maybe I'd like to read another. It was so full of great positive lines that I would feel fantastic after picking it up and reading a little section. It made me buzz with smiles and try and put the teachings into action . . . but that's easier said than done. The longer I went from picking it up, the harder I found the message to digest. It seems a lot more difficult to action in the real world. Byrne is teaching that you can just ignore emotions like sadness and anger but in reality, this is a mammoth task. I don't know whether this can be counted as a flaw of the book but the further removed I become from it, the more I found I couldn't do what Byrne suggests.
I'm not going to pretend to be an expert on non-fiction books but I will say this: The Power was incredibly repetitive. Love is the strongest force. Love don't hate. Turn away from hate and negative emotions. If you believe you receive. They are all the basic messages. The Power seemed to me to be these phrases repeated and re-worded and over-explained over and over again. Don't get me wrong, the message was beautiful, but she seemed to run out of material insanely quickly. Although it is a phenomenal performance of writing so much and saying so little.
Though don't get the wrong impression, I did enjoy it, it just started to exhaust me after a while and I was glad when it was over. I'm grateful for the messages Byrne teaches in The Power, but I felt like I needed a lie down afterwards.
Evaluation
Overall 6/10
Would I recommend it? Yes. If you need a little pick-me-up, this book is for you!
Would I look up the author? No. I think sticking to my YA fiction is the best bet.
The Power was a beautiful read though rather too repetitive for me.
☄ I was very curious about this book after hearing about Rhonda Byrne's The Secret, which I feel like is the go-to movie for learning about the law of attraction. This book is a companion to that.
I feel like many people are skeptical about the law of attraction, which makes sense. I was definitely one of those people. How can you just manifest anything that you want into your life? However, I'm starting to see some validity in it. I think there is some scientific basis behind the law of attraction, but for some reason it is widely publicized as some mystical or voodoo thing. For example, a lot of people say that to use the law of attraction, you need to imagine the things that you desire and visualize having them in order to manifest them into your life. This can possibly be explained by the reticular activating system in your body, which makes you notice things more if you focus more on them.
This book focuses more on the spiritual side of the law of attraction, but I still liked it. It included some quotes from notable figures, too. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to cultivate more love and gratitude into their life. ☄
I feel like many people are skeptical about the law of attraction, which makes sense. I was definitely one of those people. How can you just manifest anything that you want into your life? However, I'm starting to see some validity in it. I think there is some scientific basis behind the law of attraction, but for some reason it is widely publicized as some mystical or voodoo thing. For example, a lot of people say that to use the law of attraction, you need to imagine the things that you desire and visualize having them in order to manifest them into your life. This can possibly be explained by the reticular activating system in your body, which makes you notice things more if you focus more on them.
This book focuses more on the spiritual side of the law of attraction, but I still liked it. It included some quotes from notable figures, too. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to cultivate more love and gratitude into their life. ☄
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
It is a stupid pseudoscientific book that I read as a stupid teenager.
informative
inspiring
lighthearted
medium-paced
hopeful
informative
inspiring
fast-paced
This book is great and it really works. The Power is love. Love is the most powerful law of the Universe.
I don't regret the theme of this book ... but Mann! this so exaggerating, everyone knows all this things, it's insidious and we actually receive these things from our environment itself. The book was like' Yes, you can do it and blah blah' It's so boring. If anyone wants to try something like this go for 'The Secret'.
I would say the quotes of famous people in it are actually good but all that are not in the harmony with the topic in which the author describes them, it actually creates an illusion leading to misunderstand the actual meaning of them.
Life is so short to read books like this
I would say the quotes of famous people in it are actually good but all that are not in the harmony with the topic in which the author describes them, it actually creates an illusion leading to misunderstand the actual meaning of them.
Life is so short to read books like this
I adored "The Secret", and I kind of like the idea behind this book too, but I don't think it's an idea worth writing a book for.
What bothered me the most is the repetition of the same thing over and over again. It was so boring, I didn't even finish it.
But overall, what I love most about it that it's spreading positivity and love, and that's something most of us are really in need of.
What bothered me the most is the repetition of the same thing over and over again. It was so boring, I didn't even finish it.
But overall, what I love most about it that it's spreading positivity and love, and that's something most of us are really in need of.
inspiring
medium-paced