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Summary: The ultimate in books of this genre.
Review: It's up to you what you take with you from this book as you aren't likely to get much if you're not honest with yourself. This book will require you at times to be insightful, introspective, self-doubting, and questioning.Do you really know as much about yourself (or others) as you think you do? Chances are that you don't, and this book is just the piece you need to help you discover that. This book is great to go through by yourself, but I prefer to read through it either with my significant other or a group of friends. The questions are random so you can go straight through, or have someone pick a number and read the according question. Either way you're going to get a wide variety of questions. This book is great for creating conversations where there might typically not be one. My girlfriend and I always had a hard time communicating, and I bought this book as a way for us to talk. The questions would branch off into so many other questions. What I got out of it in this instance was well worth the price paid. I would highly suggest anyone who can read to purchase this book.
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Summary: Take this book along as a companion accoutrement!!
Review: My daughter initially spurred me to buy this book after an experience she had with it in a college classroom assignment. This is obviously a book that when consulted can serve to enhance any social get together and provide some truly fun and memorable times. I can see pulling this book out on long car trips, camping trips, intimate dinners and family gatherings. The best part would be to discover someone's secret desires and dreams, only expressed because it was so easily presented in question form.
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Summary: Just Getting Started
Review: My girlfriend and I went through this small book and although some of the ideas were corny or useless, most of them were quite interesting. Unfortunately, the book left a lot of topics under-covered. After the book we felt like we still needed to ask a lot of questions. We did find an excellent site, 1000 Questions for Couples at questionsforcouples. com which I think covered every single important question out there for a couple to ask.
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Summary: Questions for the Insecure
Review: Part Sunday school/CCD retreat ethics questions, part marriage counseling prodders, part teenage first date questions, and part "Truth and Dare" truth questions, mixed in with questions whose answers might otherwise only appear in a diary, Gregory Stock's "The Book of Questions" can help open up conversation. Two or more people who want to know each other, and are willing to trust each other can find this little book a starter. However, as intriguing as such a discussion revolving around these questions might be, there is the sadness that two friends might need this as a prop. "The Book of Questions" could've been a list of 417 questions, which, instead of requiring 200+ pages, could've been reduced to 25-50 pp. It can come off shallow and linear, like a Cosmo magazine quiz, or daytime TV pop psychologist. For example, if I was a guest during a holiday meal, and found a cockroach in the food, what would I do? Or, if I died, do I care what they do with my body? Would I like to be famous? There's some more adult topic questions in here, so it isn't the book to leave around your son's third grade CCD classroom. The value of this book is that it presents permission to ask question you've already the right to ask, or have been wise enough not to poke into. Consider that good enough, and skip the book, and build up a friendship on more than pretentious coffeehouse questions. Anthony Trendl
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Summary: Disappointed
Review: Perhaps I expected too much based on all the positive reviews and it being a bestseller (the right title will sell) or just don't like hypothetical questions. Found it silly and not worthwhile.
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Summary: Fun book of interesting questions
Review: The title of this book is pretty explanatory. It is simply a book of questions (417 of them to be exact). There are no answers, no clues and no hints as the questions are merely designed to get people to think hypothetically about themselves, about others and about the world around them. Some of the questions are simple and fun to think about, others are intellectually and philosophically challenging. In general, most of these questions should be shared with friends/family/loved ones--that is to say that most people will probably not feel comfortable answering these questions in the presence of mere strangers. The book is a good way to learn more about other people you know and love or can be used alone to learn more about yourself and your own values. This is a valuable and simple book that is useful to have around the house and to glance at every once in a while by yourself or to pull out when engaged in thought-provoking conversation with people you know and trust.
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Summary: Not for meeting new people
Review: These questions in this book are not good ice breakers for meeting new people. They are meant more as intimate questions for people you already know. For meeting new people questions, I much more recommend "The Conversation Piece" instead.
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Summary: You make take a position you didn't know you had.
Review: This book added perspective to dozens of issues previously thought to be cut and dry. It's single page questions caused me to re-think the way I think. Reading this book just might change your postion on an issue or two.
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Summary: A curious book
Review: This book came out when I was in college. I thought it would be a great way to learn more about the person I was dating. (I was wrong.) Fifteen years later I re-bought it and decided that it's still worthwhile, but only to the degree that you are willing to be patient with it. IMHO there's probably only 20 or 30 questions that are intriguing, the rest are classroom filler. Some of the questions are silly and some are downright depressing, as they reveal human selfishness. But if you have ever been bitten by the philosophy, or more specifically, the ethics bug, then this is a great little book to have. Also, it's better than the more recent knock-off "The Book of Fabulous Questions" - by Frohart.
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Summary: A curious book
Review: This book came out when I was in college. I thought it would be a great way to learn more about the person I was dating. (I was wrong.) Fifteen years later I re-bought it and decided that it's still worthwhile, but only to the degree that you are willing to be patient with it. IMHO there's probably only 20 or 30 questions that are intriguing, the rest are classroom filler. Some of the questions are silly and some are downright depressing, as they reveal human selfishness. But if you have ever been bitten by the philosophy, or more specifically, the ethics bug, then this is a great little book to have. Also, it's better than the more recent knock-off "The Book of Fabulous Questions" - by Frohart.
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