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Summary: Extreamly heartwarming and enlighting
Review: What a wonderful tale of how life really can be when you open your heart and love the way we were all intended. This author was able to, in only 187 pages of captivating reading, sum up how rich, fulfilling and joyful life was for these amazing "Real People" and too, how life was meant to be for all human beings. It uplifted me into a higher plane of consciousness. Thank You Marlo Morgan for such a wonderful experience.
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Summary: Simply amazing
Review: I found the account of Marlo's walkabout simply amazing, and I really believe the things that she recounts. It's true that this story is beyond civilized man's understanding, but I think that this is only because civilization has isolated us from our instincts, and we've lost touch with the natural world to a great extent. The book raises issues that I was already thinking about, regarding the way that humans interact with our planet. It makes me wonder whether we will ever fully realize how quickly we are destroying this planet, before it's too late to reverse our actions.
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Summary: I've got a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you
Review: An intellectual friend of mine raved about this book and so I checked it out from the library. Thank God I didn't buy it--it's not even worth one dollar. I am not a "literary snob" so I don't expect everything to read like Shakespeare, but getting through this book was like pulling teeth. I usually eat up information about other cultures, but this book is so vague it cannot be credible. She doesn't tell us anything we can't read in a basic anthropology textbook about any other hunter-gatherer tribe. She asks us to believe that she got into a stranger's jeep in a foreign country and drove for hours without talking. Whatever! A main theme of the book is how she was "chosen" and "destined" to be a messenger. The tribe constantly does special things just for her--songs, jewelry, etc. Why her? The author doesn't contain her egotism at all here. Most disappointing is that after her alleged return she accepts that the tribe "is leaving" and should no longer reproduce. The message is, let these people die because I am here to pass on their beliefs. This is the same racial supremacy she claims to be fighting against! Disgusting! I understand Westerners are hungry for spiritual knowledge, but let's have some standards as to where we seek to fill that need.
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Summary: A thought provoking experience
Review: The protagonist claims to have spent a brief amount of time with a culture she knows nothing about. If this really happened, I imagine that some serious hallucinogens were used or the author was experiencing some sort of psychogenic fugue in which memory of her events has been heavily distorted.The book is unbelievably pretentious and poorly written...I think I wrote a book similar to this when I was in fifth grade about a boy who lived with a wolf out in his backyard...My teacher let me read it in front of the class...Morgan's messages have been heard before. There are many religions that have similar beliefs as hers with written languages and literature as old as time. I suggest reading some of these. There is nothing inspiring in this...yes, we know that we are destroying our environment and losing touch with nature...yes, we know that. The mutant message from down under is simple: In America it's easy to make money from recycled wishy-washy cliches and new agey drivel...I can't wait to see the made for TV movie...
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Summary: Thought provoking and a gentle reminder....
Review: I read some of the reviews here *after* reading "Mutant Messages" and while it isn't for me to judge the reactions, I am curious as to why so many get caught up with the messenger when the message is the key. Granted the writing is simplistic, akin to "Celestine Prophecy." But, if one considers that the *message* is simple, elemental, natural...creating a vehicle by which the learned could spend their time deciphering and arguing as to interpretation would completely dishonor the *teachers*...fictional or not. I didn't find the story or writing style got in my way of finding the gentle reminders. After all, things of the spirit personality are simple. It is only things of the body personality that are complex and create the conflict in our lives. If you only walk away with one small truth and allow it to enhance your perceptions surrounding this life's lessons, then it seems the journey Morgan takes you on would be well worth it.
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Summary: A Mutant indeed...
Review: The term "mutant" has nothing to do with genetics - it's an "attitude" - the author learns how to deal with this attitude as she sheds her mutant skin; in its place she forms a new world view that everything is connected and humans need to return to ancient thoughts, eliminating their fears at the same time. A wonderfully written book - I recommend it to anyone who has a keen interest in understanding themselves and the universe.
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Summary: Couldn't help ridiculing
Review: This book was recommended by a new acquaintance who said it, "changed her life". I bought the book because I could certainly use a little enlightenment. Alas! This seems a really silly place to find it. The writing is awful -- I don't have the book in front of me, but I could pull out about any sentence for ridicule. There were times where I thought, okay, that's a decent thought, it's a sweet story, (hence the two stars), but by the end I found myself ridiculing it, and thinking this book, and its popularity, is further evidence of the dumbing down of America.
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Summary: Best book I've read in a long time
Review: You have to get this book it's just simply wonderful. This is a book about life and our spirits and how we view our world. I'm going to give it as a gift to everybody I know. In short- buy it now and thank me later.
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Summary: I don't think so
Review: First off, I think Marlo Morgan is a genius. Except her intelligence does not lay in her supposed "experience" in the outback but with her ability to tap into the heart beat of America's needy culture and see exactly what it is thirsy for. Both Australia and new age philosophy have been the "flavor of the month" for the average American for quite some time now, and I'm sure it was simple for Ms Morgan for create a simply written piece of "fiction" that would easily find its place upon the bookshelves of every major bookstore in the country. If the aboriginals are so brillant, WHY did they choose her?
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Summary: Mutant Message Down Under
Review: This book was a selection at our monthly book discussion group. Out of all the books we read, this made the most impression on me because of the reflections on modern society. Whether you agree or disagree, think it's fiction or fact, one thing is sure. This book makes you wonder where our planet is headed and what can we do about it. Sentences would leap off the page to me and I found myself bringing that one particular thought up for conversation at our family dinners or in conversation with others. This book definitely gets an A+ from me.
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