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Summary: This book should be called 'hurbur durrr'
Review: (...) Who has the nuts to give a book a title like 'The Meaning of Life' and then fill the contents with 'cute' anecdotes and fuzzy animals. Listen guy, you're a moron. You and the John Edwards' of this world need to be castrated for pushing these lies on the weakminded of the world. For all of you that rated this book 5 stars, try applying it to someone outside your insignificant universe of experience. You think a happy squirrel asking a torture victim if he's pursuing what he really loves is going to make him reach some kind of epiphany? What about all the starving children who die before they reach 10? I submit you read up on the full range of human experience next time deusche.
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Summary: This book should be called 'hurbur durrr'
Review: (...) Who has the nuts to give a book a title like 'The Meaning of Life' and then fill the contents with 'cute' anecdotes and fuzzy animals. Listen guy, you're a moron. You and the John Edwards' of this world need to be castrated for pushing these lies on the weakminded of the world. For all of you that rated this book 5 stars, try applying it to someone outside your insignificant universe of experience. You think a happy squirrel asking a torture victim if he's pursuing what he really loves is going to make him reach some kind of epiphany? What about all the starving children who die before they reach 10? I submit you read up on the full range of human experience next time deusche.
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Summary: Great Book for those Searching
Review: As someone who always says I am looking for the Meaning of Life, this title caught my eye (even though I didn't think it actually contained the answer). It does tell you that you need to find your own meaning (guess I knew that) but the quotes are SO true and the pictures SO cute, I thoroughly enjoyed them and they give me the message that I am on the right path. I look forward to the day when "I'll be excited about beginning another day and be filled with heartfelt joy." Sounds great to me!
I you are interested in this topic I would highly recommend Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live by MARTHA BECK.
Good Luck on your search.
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Summary: BTG's Books Inspire and Make You Smile
Review: Bradley Trevor Greive is witty, hot, and so nice! We actually met BTG during his Meaning of Life tour. If you have the opportunity to see him--GO! He's traveling to Los Angeles, Atlanta, New York, Chicago, Kansas City, Portland and Dallas. As for his other books, if The Meaning of Life is your first BTG read, check out his other titles including The Blue Day Book (more perfect than a well intentioned card), Dear Mom (my mom cried with tears of laughter, perfect for Mother's Day, mom's birthday, making up after a mother/daughter quarrel, etc), and Looking for Mr. Right (tooooo perfect --applies to married or single gals). READ THESE BOOKS!!!!
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Summary: Encouraging!
Review: Excellent, encouraging, uplifting, entertaining! If you are looking for a book that encourages you to follow your dreams in the face of the status quo, you need this one! A quick and pleasant read, great photos, awesome message. Highly recommended.
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Summary: Cute little book that'll make you ***SMILE***
Review: First of all, this book does not reveal "The Meaning of Life", so do not buy it expecting great answers. It does however reinforce what we should already know... do what makes you happy. There are no life altering revelations,...but it was cute and enjoyable and it would make a perfect gift for someone just starting out on a new adventure (after graduation, a new job, or any new beginning), or someone who has become unsatisfied with their current situation. Just like the rest of the authors books, the pictures are great, too!
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Summary: AKA Justifying Selfishness
Review: Here's Greive's "Meaning to Life": Life is short, so follow your dreams of what really makes you happy and just do it, ignoring what anybody says. This "Me Generation" author exemplifies what's wrong with our Society. It explains why the divorce rate is high. WHy there is so many deadbeat dads. Why volunteering is way down. Before you consider the meaning to life, ask yourself this: who depends on me. Do they come first? How will my decision effect them? Indeed, doesn't a focus on OTHERS rather than myself bring true meaning? One of the msot consistsent findings in psychological research (I'm a Shrink) is the correlation between happiness and helping others. The Author feels that the meaning to life is a focus "inward." True meaning comes when you focus outward. That is the challenge. Dr. Ted Coletti
Denville, NJ
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Summary: Finding the meaning in life
Review: I bought this book some time ago as an impulse purchase. After showing it to friends the author wound up with another half dozen sales. This book simply resonates for anyone willing to find messages in the natural occurences around us. While the pictures themselves could stand on their own, Greive's arrangement and text additions provide the perfect flow. In a few cases they add a touch of fun humor that would have otherwise been absent: one, for example, showing an arangutang with a distraught blank look with a caption about what it feels to go all the way to the mall just to forget what you went there for is priceless. Points should also be given to Grieve for finding the pictures in the first place. With libraries worth of pictures to choose from, Grieve managed to find ones that show exactly the expressions from animals that we can recognize in ourselves: joy, sadness, confusions, excitement, activity, relaxation, meditation and satisfaction are all represented. If you're the kind of person who looks at the stars and says, "Feh. I've seen them before," then this book isn't for you. But if you can appreciate a picture of a parent and child cheetah, with the parent looking board, and the child looking at the white dots flying arond his head, with a caption asking why children believe in fairies but "grown-ups" don't, then I cannot recommend this book enough. Highest rating.
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Summary: So much better than a card!
Review: I have a somewhat challenging family to buy for when it comes to presents - what with the differing religious viewpoints and all - but the sweetness of this book cuts through potential differences and gently brings some typically touchy areas together.It's a lighthearted, frothy thing that actually carries a little weight. I don't think it's meant to replace any Big Books on the subject, but is a nice encapsulation. Buy it and give it - but first read it yourself. That's what I did.
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Summary: LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT
Review: I love Bradley Trevor Greive - his prose are lighthearted and uplifting. It is a great book to just sit and read and lighten your heart. The pictures are great that I sometimes forget to read but the prose is also good that I sometimes forget to look at the pictures.
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