Rating: 
Summary: Awesome Book
Review: I read this book from front to back within a matter of days and it was the most uplifting book I've ever read. After lending it to a friend who lost it, I had to re-order it but it was well worth paying for it again. Even my husband couldn't put the book down! Chuck Norris is the most inspirational person I know of in real life as well as on TV. His show deals with his own morals and philosophies that he practices in real life. If I hadn't read this book, I'd never have known he lost a brother in Vietnam. I was fortunate to see the Vietnam Veterans Moving Wall when it came to my home town last November. I found Weiland's name on the Wall. Just knowing it was Chuck's brother and having read the heartbreak he went through (and still goes through from the loss of his brother), it was a very moving experience for me. This book should be mandatory in every school in America! Chuck Norris is the epitome of heroism and what all of mankind should be. He would make a great President!
Rating:
Summary: Energizing
Review: I've been teaching and training in the martial arts for over 35 years. I found this to be a wonderful, easy-to-read and highly usable book. I recommend it 100 percent.
Rating: 
Summary: Warmed -over Hyams
Review: Over twenty years ago, columnist Joe Hyams wrote a book called "Zen in the Martial Arts". It has become a classic in both fields. (You can still buy it, although it's overpriced for a paperback and the publisher is too cheap to reprint the book: the only edition currently available is a photocopy.)
Ten years later, Chuck Norris came out with The Secret Power Within.
Curious thing, though: this book by Mr. Norris has an almost too familiar ring to it. When Chuck quotes a martial arts master, the words are IDENTICAL to what Hyams wrote. And not only that, but the scenario leading up to the quote is the same. Only the location and names have changed.
This happens more than once in Chuck's book, and you start to wonder if Mr. Norris got more than just inspiration from
Mr. Hyams.
If so, it is particularly pathetic: I doubt Joe Hyams ever earned a tenth of the money Chuck Norris took to the bank.Given a choice, read Zen in the Martial Arts. It is easily the superior work, and just might be at your local library.
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