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Summary: melody is a wonderful writer. I have learned so much
Review: Melody is a wonderful writer. I have learned much about my life since I began reading her books. My psychiatrist and psychologist recommended her books to assist me in learning how to stop being co-dependent. I did not realize until I started reading her books, just how bad I was a co-dependent. Thanks for the wonderful books you have already written and to the many more that all of us hope you write
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Summary: A Wide-eyed new-ager's trite journey of self-discovery
Review: Melody is not just your average dumb, uncritically accepting new-age type. She's a rich, bestselling, dumb, uncritically accepting new-age type. If you're willing to believe that a guy from Taiwan can have you mumble some Chinese you don't understand and that this will make sure you achieve Nirvana in this lifetime (for a suitable fee, no doubt), you're on a par with Melody. If you let your hairdresser bleach your hair because "he said my auric field was lightening and it would help to have my hair lighter too, for a while," you're one with Melody. And what happens in the end? She goes to Master Huang, pays the fee, "gets her Tao", and receives the three secrets, "traced back to their biblical origins", but of course Taoism is completely unrelated to the Judeo-christian tradition, a fact which Melody never bothered to research. And what are the three secrets? Well, you'd better find Master Huang and pay your fee if you want to find out. Melody, after all that, isn't telling. I found this book in a box left out in front of a used book store. It was a waste of time, but at least not a waste of money -- I didn't pay any. Rather than leaving this book out for someone else to waste time on, I'm going to recycle it. Mulched up and made into paper bags, it will be performing a far better service than in its current incarnation.
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Summary: Like the Giza horizon: a few high points make it worthwhile.
Review: My first reaction was disappointment; to my mind, the book did not live up to the hype. But there were a couple of "Ah-ha moments" - These initially struck me as simple, almost self-evident truths, but they've been niggling at me ever since. Not a desert island book (oops - ) but a quick, pleasant read, and worth that much effort.
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Summary: Very Disappointing
Review: This book started as an adventure of Melodies trip to the Middle East. And, I have to say that I enjoyed it as a novel and hearing about different aspects in the Middle East. But as far as I could see, it didnt have anything to do with the title of the book. I have experienced her other works much better than this one. I kept waiting for the depth, but it never came.
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Summary: Very Disappointing
Review: This book started as an adventure of Melodies trip to the Middle East. And, I have to say that I enjoyed it as a novel and hearing about different aspects in the Middle East. But as far as I could see, it didnt have anything to do with the title of the book. I have experienced her other works much better than this one. I kept waiting for the depth, but it never came.
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Summary: Stop being a rich whiny woman!
Review: This is a mediocre travelogue at best. Too often the author comes across as another rich spoiled american abroad. The narration is inherently funny as she often mispronounces common words. I didn't feel a lot of sympathy for her as she comes across as way too flighty and too new agey. I would not recommend this too highly.
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Summary: I'm going to stop by not finishing this book
Review: To say this book is a follow-up to Co-dependent No More is hype. It is an interesting travelogue and probably a tax write-off. She writes that when she told her daughter the title her daughter said, "Oh, you're writing a mystery." I'm midway through this book and the purported subject is a mystery. I had to stop when her sage advice to an Islamic teenage woman "living in a box" in Gaza is that she could leave this cloistered life and "become a movie star, a model, work in an office." What a great disappointment after a serious work on co-dependency.
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Summary: I'm going to stop by not finishing this book
Review: To say this book is a follow-up to Co-dependent No More is hype. It is an interesting travelogue and probably a tax write-off. She writes that when she told her daughter the title her daughter said, "Oh, you're writing a mystery." I'm midway through this book and the purported subject is a mystery. I had to stop when her sage advice to an Islamic teenage woman "living in a box" in Gaza is that she could leave this cloistered life and "become a movie star, a model, work in an office." What a great disappointment after a serious work on co-dependency.
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