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Summary: What can I say?
Review: Yes, this book is full of misinformation about Aboriginal life and culture - the fact that the real Aboriginal custodians of the area she claims to have been in have been so offended - and mounted a campaign pointing out her many ridiculous errors - are testament to that. For those of you who do not understand the criticisms of the book, it is not just its fictional aspect that has caused problems. For one thing, Aboriginal people are tired of having white people speak for them and the claim that this group chose a white American to transmit their message (even fictionally)is offensive to many. Please celebrate Aboriginal culture but make it the real one, the one real people live, not a white fantasy. Also the idea that these people are apparently dieing is too much like the ideas the 19th -20th governments used to ignore Aboriginal issues and steal children as 'they'll all be dead soon anyway'. Aboriginal people are a living people - not a metaphor for spiritual enlightment.
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Summary: Make your brain think
Review: This book reminded me to remember the things I have forgotten. She had the courage to write it and hopefully you will have the courage to read it. It will help you re-balance the way you think about life and what you are capable of.
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Summary: Very comforting at this place of our lives
Review: My husband and I both read the book several years ago and liked it. However since the "death" of our precious child 5 weeks ago, we recently listened to the audio tape of this book and truly connected with it in a very deep and spiritual way. In many ways our journey of grief paralells Marlo's experience in the outback. We are learning to communicate in a whole new way with each other and our daughter. We have literally been "taken hostage" into a whole new land, one that at times feels hostile and depriving, but in reality is teaching us a whole new way of being and living life. I would highly recommend this book for anyone in a "grieving" state of being.
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Summary: getaway book
Review: This book was loaned to me by a good friend, and once past the first few pages I couldn't put it down. It is easy to read and makes the reader feel like a privileged addition to the tribe of "real people" trekking across Australia on a "walkabout" with the author. The story is filled with home truths about prejudice, and ignorance regarding the aborigines without assigning blame. It reveals a different culture, a different way to live, one which is frowned on by the "civilised", yet they live in complete harmony with nature, and each other. The book has many highlights, of interest to me were the profound objective teachings of the aborigines concerning society, and their philosophy regarding all life. A remarkable journey-a delightful tale.
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Summary: An outpour of confusion
Review: Somewhat well written yet extremely unbelievable. If it was sold as a fiction story, it would be great, but who knows? For the most part, and entertaining break from reality--but: somebody please help me decide wether this book is fact or fiction. I have had intense debates with friends and family members about the authenticity over this story. I am losing sleep! I beg of you, your opinion, and if you wish, email me at miltonp729@home.com --sincere thanks to all
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Summary: A very powerful message
Review: I found this book the third most important book I have every read. The first was "Freedom From the Known" by Krishnamurti, the second was "On Having No Head" by Douglas Harding, and now "Mutant Message Down Under". The reason these books have been important to me personally is that each has produced a paradigm shift enabling a clearer, less deluded perception of life on Earth. Each work has brought me a little closer to reality; by this I mean they have helped me to shed pain bearing illusions, life has become easier, more enjoyable.It is interesting to see that the negative reviews of this book have a very emotional, angry quality about them. If a book is so worthless why bother going to the trouble and taking the time to write about it at all? A playwright once said that when the audience burns down the theatre you know you've hit a home truth. Marlo Morgan has definitely hit something of the truth with this work. The style may be simple, but then so was Steinbeck's when he wrote the "Pearl". The simplicity of the writing reflects the simplicity of the life style being portrayed. This is a book for seekers of spirit. The less materialistic you are the more you'll love it. Enjoy.
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Summary: What a stupid piece of junk!
Review: I'm sorry to be so forward, because each person who writes a book deserves respect because he/she has tried to say something about himself. And if she publishes by herself, it really has merit. But it is the only one I see. This book is very new age, very `spiritual' and it looks like many people in this world find it useful, but I can only think how void of sense their lives are if this silly, childish search help them. It is pretentious and grandiloquent. Perhaps I'm very rationalist and skeptical, and this book is a kind of run-of-the-mill Platonism and Hegelianism: this world is not the real Reality, our life is not the real life, but there is a better one somewhere sometime if you just stop thinking and follow... what? I would say to those who find it so interesting: why don't you try to read philosophy, for instance, Bertrand Russell and think?
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Summary: The beauty itself
Review: My english is not the best, but, I'll try to express myself within a few words. I wish that every person on this planet reads this book with an open mind and an open heart. It is about life itself and the human being in its most essential aspects. The author is telling her story in a very simple way that seems very understandable. But, we need to open more our perception to realize the very truth that is told in this true story. About the madness of the present consumator society that has forgotten the essential human values and keeps on in the worst direction of destroyng the nature, and since we- the humans are the nature,to the destroying of our own selfes. This book is also a reminder that the "primitive" people, or tribes, as the occidental "civilised" man used to name them, are the greates source of the REAL TRUE CIVILISATION. Because they live and deal with the life and the truth itself.
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Summary: too beautiful to be true...
Review: In 1996 a group of Aboriginal elders, incensed by this book and the damage it is doing, obtained a government grant to travel to the United States to confront Marlo Morgan and to stop a Hollywood film being made of it. They obtained a very reluctant apology from her which I heard on radio in Australia. As they represented the people of the area in which she claimed to have begun her walk across Australia she had no choice but to admit she had made the whole story up. Unfortunately this admission has gained almost no publicity in the States. For those who still listen to Morgan's message please remember it is the simply the musings of a white woman who has been fully prepared to lie and delude her admiring public. by Chris Sitka (Napaltjarri)
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Summary: An enchanting voyage
Review: An enchanting voyage into the dessert and into self. The autor uncovers a refreshing point of view on our culture, our values and the true meaning and vocation in being a human being. It doesn't matter if the author has been there or not - the truth is in the position she takes, and in the love for our world and it's inhabitants - whoever they are.
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