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Summary: hard to understand
Review: i liked the fact that this book covered alot of info,but it was very hard to uderstand. so it was very hard for me to make a relationship chart for me and my boyfriend. linda goodman's sun signs is a better book.
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Summary: A valuable approach to understanding people.
Review: I love all of Linda Goodman's books. There is no doubt that she is one of the most sensitive writers on Astrology and other metaphysical subjects. However, with her passing before the book was complete, there is a great deal of magic that has not been able to be duplicated in Relationship Signs. Linda Goodman seemed to be able to catch the interest of the reader and become like a good friend through her wise, wonderful words. While I think the book is a great look at relationships and a source for understanding those close to us, I can't help but think that ghost writers attempted to make the book sound more like Linda Goodman, when in fact there is only a meagre touch of her genius that is present. I have read all her works and thought of Linda Goodman as a friend. Relationship Signs is missing that very magical element of the author that the book claims as its own.
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Summary: How much of this book is Linda Goodman and how much is not?
Review: I was so happy to know Linda Goodman had put out another book, especially a book on interpreting in greater depths relationships. However I do have a few dispointments about this book: 1) I understand that Linda Goodman died in October 1995. This new book was released in 1998, so how much of this book is Linda Goodman and how much is not? 2) When interpreting one's moon signs and Ascendant signs and being born in the Southern Hemisphere, are these tables accurate for us or only people born in the northen hemisphere, in countries like America? If I was born in Australia, east coast do I have to add 12 to 14 hours? 3) After creating you and your partners chart, what is the interpretation for signs that are 30 degrees and 150 degrees apart in the chart. mention has only been made of Conjunct (0 degrees), Opposite (180 degrees), Sextile (60 degrees), Trine (120 degrees).I believe that these are very important oversights in this book that can cause many misreadings and poor intrepretations of relationships readings. Without these items mentioned above then this book is a pointless read. Fill in the missing information and this book should stand beside Linda Goodmans other classics.
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Summary: Could this be ANY more complicated?
Review: I went to pick this up at the bookstore because I was hoping to read about my astrological compatibility between some friends and co-workers. Instead of being just the sun signs, there were moon ascendants, the "houses" or whatever, and to use this book correctly you would need the exact day and time the other person was born. Most of us don't know that, so this book is useless. There were also many diagrams that looked so difficult and overwhelming, so I left this one on the shelf. "Love Signs" was much easier to understand.
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Summary: inaccurate tables
Review: I'm a huge fan of Linda Goodman's work, so when I saw this book I grabbed it immediately. I thought it was a bit strange, since I know of her untimely death and the fact that she's already written a fantastic book on relationships and the zodiac (ie: Love Signs)... But I thought oh well, whatever, she must have something more to add. NO. This book is completely devoid of Linda's trademark unusually witty, disarming turn of phrase and her thoughtful, precise insights and interpretations. Not only that, but WORST OF ALL, when I used this book to work out my ascendant, it was totally WRONG! My rising sign is definitely Libra, NOT Virgo! I tried it on a few other people who's ascendants I knew well, and it was wrong for a few of them also. A lot of the interpretations were also very narrow, lacking in depth or any real insight and thus were hard to ascribe to certain individuals because of that. Linda's money hungry publishing company or whoever is behind putting this book out is doing her name and memory an enormous disservice. Save your money and make sure you buy Linda's other books like Star Signs, Sun Signs & Love Signs. They are all brilliant.
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Summary: "LINDA GOODMAN"--Who bought the name?
Review: in what appears to be a highly political move on the BANTAM front, a sweepingly general put-together of mostly vague to inaccurate planetary tables(aLMOST HALF THE BOOK) in a mass reading market already innundated with ALL the basics of astrology. i doubt seriously any real authorization was involved as its elusive and again vague explanation of c.b.'s (b.d.6-9-49?)acquiantance with M.A.K...ahem...only serious linda goodman "fans" should own a copy of this book.GAK! reviewster from the earthquake zone is write, to me. i bought this book two days ago and have spent two sleepless nights wrangling with its contradications.although the book love signs seems to still physically elude me periodically, the most important lesson gleaned from that has been that things are not always what they seem and people are sometimes too willing to believe whatever they are told. well, i better quit while i still have a head!
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Summary: Disappointingly Un-Linda-Like
Review: Relationship signs is a good book if you want to examine relationships between 2 people on an astrological basis. It is fairly simple although I think that it could have been made even simpler. Some of the concepts have been explained rather hazily such as when you look at 2 charts , do you need to compare the planets based on their position in each chart or is it on the basis of zodiac signs? The answer is on the basis of zodiac signs, of course. Therefore, you see there s a trine between A's Sun (Aries) and B's sun(Aquarius). You don't look at A's 4th house and B's 7th! The problem with this book is two fold:
1. You don't really need to draw a chart for each person when all you are doing is seeing the relationship between their respective planets and signs. Therefore this can be achieved by listing out each person's planets and signs. You don't need the two charts, they just confuse you! The way that this book explains planets and signs is slightly confusing. Therefore you do need to know a little about astrology before you start. This is not a Grant Lewi style book... you can't start work on this unless you have read a little (at least) about astrology
2. I must say that for a Goodman fan, this book is a little disappointing. The book lacks the full force of her witty, clever and incredibly simple style. Especially the explanation of signs and planets... it is made rather complicated, very un Linda like. Which leads me to believe (like many who have read this book) that it wasn't fully a product of Linda Goodman. It s probably a product of some kind of LG Co. headed by some people who Linda reportedly entrusted to carry out the work in her name after her death (in 1996)
On the plus side, this book has tables from the year 1900 to 2000 which enable you to determine charts of 2 people in relation to each other. Also, the relations between planets as explained by Linda (Sun trine Venus et al) are in her trademark style, even if other parts of the book aren't.
The final verdict? Buy this book, but use it only after you have had a little intro to astrology, which you can get by reading Sun Signs and Love Signs first. They are the real Goodman masterpieces.
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Summary: undeniably linda's
Review: This book lacks the wit and humor of Linda Goodman's other books, but the relationship material and explanations of planetary aspects are definitely hers. For those who are in denial, if you could properly read the chart, you can go back to her Love Sign Books and do a cross and see that the work is authentic. For example, for a person whose Venus is in Virgo and their partner's is in Aries, you can go back to the Love Signs chapter on an Aries-Virgo relationship and read up pertaining to your particular genders. Sure, the charts are off some and there are some errors in the book. Get over it! You'll probably see a lot more errors if you read ENOUGH. And trust me, being interested in almost everything, I have. They did not claim that the charts were Linda's. I believe Crystal said in the preface that she did the charts by computer. If that be the case, then sometimes upon transferring information, things get lost. Stop whining and give her a break! One would think you were Virgos and next to God. Geesh. Buy the book. :)
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Summary: Carolyn Reynolds is a worthy successor!
Review: To all who love astrology I recommend Carolyn Reynold's wonderful book, The Book of Lovers. She is that rare combination of a great astrologer and a great writer - just as Linda was. And of course, all of Linda Goodman's books are fantastic and should be required reading. I do share some of the same concerns as others here - I have also been told that Linda's name is owned by a company, and that makes me very suspect. I would not trust anything else that came out posthumously with h er name on it, but I do recommend all other Goodman books, as well as Carolyn's books. I hope that Miss Reynolds will grace us with more of her astrological insights in the very near future. I think it's time to start looking at the resources we have in some of these new bright astrologers who will take over where Linda left off.
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