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The Secret

Author: Rhonda Byrne
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
Category: Book

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars

182 reviews
Sales Rank: 14

Media: Hardcover
Pages: 160
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.9

ISBN: 1847370292
EAN: 9781847370297
ASIN: 1847370292

Publication Date: December 4, 2006
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A brilliant introduction to the Law of Attraction June 25, 2008
0 out of 5 found this review helpful

Early last year I got hold of a copy of the Secret by Rhonda Byrne. Who can deny that the title is wonderful for catching your attention? The book serves as a brilliant introduction to the law of attraction, which is an interpretation of the power behind the universe. The book is based on the author's Secret DVD which has interviews with a number of notable law of attraction speakers. The book contains some of the choicest quotes included in the DVD and new commentary by Rhonda Byrne. This is a great book that helps you gently dip your toe into this fascinating genre.

1 out of 5 stars

Absolutely Ridiculous June 17, 2008
8 out of 9 found this review helpful

This book is so Ridiculous I barely know where to start. A well meaning friend bought this book for me as he himself was halfway through it and thought it was 'amazing', I believe he even had pictures of things he 'wanted ' stuck up on his wall which the universe was going to provide. It truly is a complete joke of a book, any level headed individual will either read it and find it hilarious or read it and become quite angry, my reaction to its drivel was a mixture of the two.

This book is an insult to history, economics, Physics, Maths, Chemistry and Biology!

Rhonda Byrne has been watching far too much Living TV

1 out of 5 stars

Just Hot Air June 14, 2008
6 out of 7 found this review helpful

I agree with most of the high rating reviews, the book is a good reminder of already available materials around self motivations.

BUT

The promise of the book is highly exaggerated, the materials is not new; in fact you will come across it one way or another in most self development books. I just found it very commercial and the whole fiasco of the name and the way marketed is misleading and exaggerated for what actually can provide.

For example, it mentions "it's scientifically proven that a positive thought, 100s times more powerful [Electronically/plus strength] than a negative thought". Now, I can tell you that there are no researches or any scientific fact currently available which support this statement.

In a nutshell: Strong marketing techniques, positive thinking and goal setting contents. All blended together then exaggerated.

Not recommended by me.

5 out of 5 stars

Brilliant June 2, 2008
3 out of 9 found this review helpful

I am so shocked at the bad reviews given to this book. It is fantastic and has changed my life. Byrne does name the 100 year old book if you listen (CD) or read carefully. It is a great book to get you thinking about all the positives in life when it is so easy to be taken down by all the negativity we face daily. I have bought 8 copies of the audio CD for friends and family and will be recommending it to everyone I know as I think it is the best book I have ever read. My way of thinking has been transformed and I will never again wallow in negative thoughts again. Make up your own mind about the book. I have found the audio book much more powerful in getting the message across and I have listened to it about 50 times. Each time I get something more from it. I hope Rhonda Byrne makes her fortune from this and other other products related to it because she deserves it.

1 out of 5 stars

The only people making real big money from this, are the ones behind it! May 20, 2008
42 out of 47 found this review helpful

The Secret is just the latest in a long line of Law of Attraction books that have been published through the years. I've read most of them, this one is a huge seller and made the author a millionaire because of the way it has been marketed. And it's a cynical marketing ploy too, and ruthless in its determination to be unopposed by any dissenting voices. When I first heard about the LOA (Law of Attraction) I truly believed I had found the answer to everything and totally believed in its validity, only to look around many years later and see that nothing had actually changed. I didn't manifest the things I believed I would and don't know anyone else who has done so either. One friend who was singing the praises of The Secret when he first read it two years ago, has now given it away, completely disillusioned and feeling worse than he did before he read it and started following its 'advice'. When all the affirmations, visualising, asking, believing, etc, doesn't work, or only in very limited or small ways, then the person who had grasped onto what seemed like the answer to their prayers, ends up feeling betrayed and without the false hope they had been given by this money making spinner for the people selling it to gullible and vulnerable people, who, by their purchasing of the book, the CD, the DVD, the follow up books about what to do when it doesn't work or things go wrong(!) are putting money into the bank accounts of the people responsible for this 'spiritual marketing' as it is known in the trade. When I see people unhappy because they believed in 'The Secret' only to find out much further down the line that it never delivered, then it makes me want to warn others not to be sucked into it through them giving even more money to already extremely wealthy people. And make no mistake, when it doesn't work out how you believed it would, then they will tell you that you have done something wrong, or you must have blocks somewhere in your subconscious that need removing, (you can then buy more books to 'help' with this) or you need chakra clearing, (more books, and CDs too to buy!) or it must be that you need to love yourself more, because you can't love yourself properly or it would work for you, then you get told that you need to stop wanting anything and be 'spiritual' instead and believe that you have it all already, because once you get to that stage then you will be so content that you will realise that you have all you want already and won't need any more, because if you continue to want things, or conditions, then you just continue attracting more things or conditions to want, therefore you mustn't actually want anything! And so it goes on. I could say more and believe me I have long experience of dealing with these kind of people so I know what I'm talking about, but knowing how they operate, this would just get removed, as they are very protective of their money spinner and try to stop anyone from questioning it. Just believe in yourself and try to think positive thoughts, (worrying unduly about anything doesn't actually change whatever it is you're worrying about) building up self confidence and loving yourself truly and looking for anything at all you have to be grateful for, no matter how small, is the best advice I can give you, and I'm not charging anyone anything for saying that, or spinning it out into a whole book and marketing it in such a way that people will be sucked into buying it and making me very rich as a result of appearing to answer a need in people who are struggling.