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Summary: total pre-teen-level puff piece
Review: Here is a theory which claims to have scientific backing but doesn't give any, because there isn't any. The author claims that unnamed "scientists" have produced "extensive evidence" of the "genetic link" between personality and blood groups. This would be news to the scientific community worldwide, which has found no such link. He even gets his basic facts wrong, for instance saying that "if your parents are A's, so are you." (The truth is that offspring of A parents can be A or O.)Most of the book reads like a teenybopper astrology column, telling O's they are easygoing and funloving, A's they are athletic, AB's they are creative, etc. Something for everybody, all of it imaginary! You might as well save your money and read your horoscope, or tea leaves, or patterns on your wall. This book will be useful only to science teachers and other thinking people, as an example of how much fluff is out there to entertain the gullible public.
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Summary: total pre-teen-level puff piece
Review: Here is a theory which claims to have scientific backing but doesn't give any, because there isn't any. The author claims that unnamed "scientists" have produced "extensive evidence" of the "genetic link" between personality and blood groups. This would be news to the scientific community worldwide, which has found no such link. He even gets his basic facts wrong, for instance saying that "if your parents are A's, so are you." (The truth is that offspring of A parents can be A or O.)Most of the book reads like a teenybopper astrology column, telling O's they are easygoing and funloving, A's they are athletic, AB's they are creative, etc. Something for everybody, all of it imaginary! You might as well save your money and read your horoscope, or tea leaves, or patterns on your wall. This book will be useful only to science teachers and other thinking people, as an example of how much fluff is out there to entertain the gullible public.
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Summary: Too great of a generalization.
Review: I bought this book because I really enjoyed "Eat right 4 your type". But I was somewhat dissapointed in this. It was an over simplification of a very complicated issue. The 4 basic personality types didn't hold true for most people I know, and I think its a little difficult to put all humans in the world into only 4 catagories anyway. It just doesn't hold up. I understand the authors generalizations, but just don't agree that people's personalities are so easily typed into such few catagories. Homeopathy uses over 100 catagories and that is incomplete. Some of the point made are interesting, but in general its not what I'd hoped for.
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Summary: Unraveling Part of God's Pattern for Human Personality
Review: I bought this book on Amazon after my success with theblood-type diet for B's by Peter D'Adamo (Eat Right 4 Your Type). I'vebeen amazed at the consistent patterns I've observed after reading "What's Your Type?" -- I've even guessed several people's blood types accurately, just from applying this knowledge gained from the two books! This information has helped me be patient with some people whom I "just didn't understand" before. I think God has allowed us to discover part of the pattern of His creation, with the blood-type patterns -- including certain human behaviors and chemical tendencies.
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Summary: To the review above (A reader from New York)
Review: You seem to be a type-A person. Your type tends to become overly defensive, which explains your unwillingness to accept the concepts that this book has taught you. Try not to take it so personally. It is very sound advice, to be taken with a grain of salt like ANY advice you may come across during your journeys through this uncertain life, young Jedi. Distrust breeds anger, anger leads to hate, and hate brings...suffering. May the Force be with you, peeved Jedi.
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Summary: A Pleasantly Intriguing Book
Review: You will not become an expert on bloodtypes or personality traits simply by reading this book. The book, however, will give you some general understanding of why people behave, study, work or play differently. After finishing the book, you will be surprised how many times you will guess your friends' bloodtypes correctly and how much you can tell about their personalities. I would recommend this book to any of my friends, particulary those in the HR field.
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