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Summary: Interesting but seemingly speculative
Review: Dr. Peck's book, The Road Less Traveled, has been a cornerstone in self-help for years. Many of the insights in the book (the disciplines, etc.) offer practical instruments of life change to readers everywhere. Furthermore, he reserves his extensive vocabulary for academia, and offers this book in a easy-to-read style. The examples that he uses also drive many of his points home. The major limitation of this treatise is the fact that Peck extrapolates too much from his experiences. He looks at what has happened in his life, and he creates dogmatic claims from the instances. In many of these cases, other explanations are either more appropriate or as valid as the hypotheses that he posits. Some empirical research to support his claims would satisfy someone like me more. At any rate, however, the claims in the book do offer many people techniques that are helpful even if the explanations offered by Peck seem inadequate. This book should be read by everyone, and then each person can glean from it what they will.
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Summary: What a Book!
Review: I don't know where I would be without having read this book 3 times. It is not for everyone, but coming where I came from, I needed to learn what was in this book. Every person alive should at least read it. I would like to thank Scott Peck, for writing a book that made such a huge positive impact on my life.
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Summary: M.ScottPeck extends his hand to those who reach for it.
Review: A painstaking attempt through love to guide those 'lost' on dead-end roads...
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Summary: The one book that can and has changed many lives.
Review: It is not easy to describe in 1,000 words the impact that this book has had on my life. It allowed me to explore my beliefs and myths about life, discipline, love, religion and spiritual growth. It has shown me how to base my life on what is true and not simply on what is convenient, expedient or popular. I have recommended and given this book to people whom I truly love-people whose personal and spiritual growth I want to encourage and support.I am eternally grateful to the author for sharing with me the way to "the road less traveled" because it has made all the difference!
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Summary: Makes phenomenal sense..Peck's got stuff!
Review: I read this book much before I started visiting amazon.com regularly, but, I still think it's the best book I have read on self-improvement. It makes so much sense...cover to cover. Peck knows what he is talking about...he's got stuff and that what makes the book so valuable...unlike most other self-improvement books written now-a-days that speak the obvious....A brillaint book, which is sure to add value to its readers.
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Summary: Entertaining
Review: I was given this gift from a director in order to achieve spiritual completeness. I loved it and apply the ideals of the book to my thoughts and actions nearly every day.
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Summary: excellent resource, but sometimes inaccessible
Review: As a book that outlines the beginning of a life-long journey, The Road Less Traveled provides a sturdy base of understanding of finding a more peaceful and fulfilling path in life. However, Dr. Peck's writing style as well as some of his assumptions in the book are a little heady and inaccessible. One of his followup books, Further Along the Road Less Traveled, appears to have recovered from these problems. Dr. Peck's willingness to honestly share his own personal experiences (which he does moreso in his followup book) illustrates how his own journeys, although painful, have been the most beneficial to growing spiritually as a human being. If anyone has doubts as to a purpose in this life, this book will shed insight.
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Summary: The best book I have ever read!!
Review: Hello: Just has to write a few lines about this book. It really changed my thinking to the point where it has changed my outlook on life. And it came at a time when I needed it most in my life. Peck destroys many of the myths about life and love that most of us "normal" people have. It becomes evident that you will have to work at your life more after you read the book and accept more pain--but pain is a necessary part of growth. And along with that pain comes much more joy than you ever had. A point I remembered is Peck says that you should continue to spiritually grow your entire life--most people stop when they feel comfortable with themselves--but that leads to unhappiness. Especially important to me was how the author destroys the myth of romantic love, that it is NOT present forever in a relationship and it is perfectly normal for a couples love to become a more familiar but more stable type of love. I have read this book at least 4 times already and still find things that I missed. It is a must read for everyone who are interested in improving their lot in life. Excellent!!!!
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Summary: Filled with meaningful insights into the emotional being.
Review: The Road Less Traveled is an excellent book that teaches you how to look inside yourself and to find the answers to questions which have perplexed mankind since the beginning of time. M. Scott Peck's writing is refreshing, indepth and yet very easy to read.
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Summary: Support to those who believe in something more than nothing
Review: Very insightful on the human responses towards spirituality and growth, whether or not you believe in God. Confronts logic and reason head on helping everyone to understand that even logic and reason have limits in a world where the unexplained dominates. Open your heart, make aware your senses and begin the journey on the Road Less Traveled!
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