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Summary: Well, duh.
Review: I suppose it was my own fault for being lured by the marketing touts of this book:"how to know if your date is interested in a serious relationship" "how to tell a person's sincerity" "how to make snap decisions that make sense" I sure that Dr. Dimitrius is a very compelling and charming woman, but to be honest, the expose she was determined to avoid would have probably been more interesting and informative than this book. Anyone should know that there is no "secret" to "unlock" about people reading. It is just a matter of being around people enough to learn to observe the right signs. This is pretty much what she says in her book . . . over and over and over . . . So, if you want 281 pages of common sense and suggestions to do more research, check this book out from your local library. Take your kids to the museum with the money you would have spent on it.
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Summary: Interesting but nothing new
Review: I thought the book had some interesting points but didn't provide much in the way of usable information. I think that there are a few other books that offer more in the way of practical techniques. I read NEVER BE LIED TO AGAIN by Lieberman and found it to be highly, highly useful.Also the classic HOW TO WIN FRIENDS AND INFLUENCE PEOPLE, is a must read. READING PEOPLE is interesting but lacks the practicality of some of the other books on human behavior.
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Summary: Get what you want out of relationships - read the book
Review: This book is a thorough and concise guide to learning to appreciate people for who they are. It is not packed full of revelations - but supports common sense, (too rare these days), coupled with intuition and fact finding. In childhood, we are taught that it's rude to ask too many questions of people - so we fail to gather the proper information to form opinions. This book teaches us to gather and store facts and develop relationships based on reality and not perception. The true value of this book is to translate the information and perform a self-evaluation. Unless you are dead you should be constantly growing, changing and moving forward. Reading this helped me out of lethargy and into action!
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Summary: May be helpful as a basic reference book
Review: This is probably not the most helpful, indepth book I have read about interpreting human behaviour, but it certainly does provide suggestions all of us may use to improve relationships and better understand those around us (particularly the chapters on how to become a better listener!). The appendices at the end of the book are interesting to examine, even if one does this for "entertainment" purposes alone. I believe the authors were aiming for an easily read and under- stood guide, which is what this book is. (Perhaps some of us would have liked a more sophisticated delivery and fund of information?)
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Summary: Common sense and vague generalities
Review: Jo-Ellan is an interesting lady with an interesting background, but this book was by and large a disappointment. Much of it is common sense stuff that reasonably perceptive people already know. Much of the book reads like this, (my paraphrase) "this characteristic often means this, but sometimes means this and sometimes means this and sometimes means this, etc,. don't take this characteristic at face value until you get to know the person over some period of time and check out all these other characteristics before deciding what the original characteristic means". I'm sorry but this is way too vague and inprecise to qualify as a "secret tip that will change your life". The book oversells and underdelivers.
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Summary: Dangerous in hands of untrained psychologists & con-artists
Review: I read the book because I found it within a Web site dedicated to job hunting and hiring. The description said it would help managers get to know who they're interviewing. Also, it would help the candidate present himself in a manner that he could be "hired on the spot." Apparently, that's a trend that has disappeared from the workplace because now it's felt that in order to get hired, a committee must evaluate you and come to a unanimous decision. I now worry about the various people in that picture. The people who make up the team may have read this book and then jump to the wrong conclusion about the candidate. Or the candidate who reads this book may try to project an image. In our culture, we reward imaging. We reward who the person is on the outside, not the inside. One of the biggest problems in hiring today is that hiring tends to reward the person who appears to be most qualified, not the person who really is. I'm afraid that this book will cause more people to panic and to read too much into the actions of a person. (For instance, at an interview, a person once described his love for California wines as a hobby; someone else said, "We don't need to hire a drunk!") I'm also scared that some job hunters who really don't know their job material but instead recast their personalities get hired, taking away the chance from someone who is really qualified. For this reason, I like what the book had to say, but I am extremely hesitant, esp. in a country which tends to believe that an accused person is by definition guilty. If people could be counted on to give others benefit of the doubt more readily, then I'd give it a higher rating. But today, we tend to assume the worst. "Predicting behavior" may be ultimately misinterpreted to mean that nobody can change themselves, for better or worse, leading to a false sense of security or apprehension.
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Summary: promises way more than it delivers
Review: The published reviews promise all sorts of things -- tell if a date is interested, how to land a job, and so on. The book itself is a disappointment, with some hints about what it promises to deliver but no real guidelines or insight. The most you walk away with is a sense that sometimes gestures and postures mean something, but sometime they don't, and without any clear guide to reading them.
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Summary: Amazing
Review: I have to admit, I went straight to the "mirror" chapter. You know, the one about how other people read YOU. Simply illuminating. Dimitrius and Mazzarella show you that the tiniest cues can make the difference between getting that new job, or getting tossed out the door; between a successful date, and a darker fate. READING PEOPLE is a reading pleasure!
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Summary: The best book about reading people ever...
Review: I have been interested about how to read people for ten years. I always look for this kind of book for a long time. After I have read this book, I totolly awake. I have never seen any books that are complete and accurate like this book before. Guaranty 100 percent. Don't miss.
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Summary: Very Insightful! I am impressed!
Review: You can only read anyone like a book! And this book gives you the "how"!
It outlines the steps to reading people in a very logical and systematic manner that everyone can understand.
It gives you a very scientific approach. Just follow the steps and you will get the result you want: ability to read and predict people. On the other hand, if you are not getting the results you want through your own methods, go through the steps in the book as well. You can use the steps provided as a checklist to see what you are missing.
To me, the only draw back of this book is it assumed the reader already has a fairly good understanding of the judicial system in America. This is something difficult for me, as an Asian.
Overall, great! I like it! A must read for everyone! For me, this is even more important as I am in the sales profession.
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