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Summary: Read with your heart and you will know it is truth!
Review: As Marlo Morgan's spiritual adventure progressed, I was transformed along with her. She asks, "Who are the real savages on this planet?", and the answer is lovingly given to us by the Real People.
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Summary: An eye opener for anyone that thinks they've got problems.
Review: This book helped me put life into perspective. I was so absorbed in my own trivial problems, that life had become almost unbearable. Luckily a friend realized that I was in a downward spiral an loaned me this remarkable text. I'm not a religious person, but I recieved a spiritological and phsychological uplift after this reading. My life has made an 180 degree turn for the better. I've changed from a greedy, uncaring, worm of an individual, and become more conscious of what life should mean to everyone. I have quit my job as an executive of a corporation that is as equally detrimental to the individual as it is to the environment, and gone back to college to pursue a degree that will allow me to help the environment and the "real people". I would humbly like to thank Marlo Morgan for helping me realize the error of my ways, and I can only hope that everone that reads this book will be affected as profoundly as I was.
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Summary: I predict the movie will be less accurate
Review: I've never been to Australia. I've never met an aboriginal person from there. I enjoy an amazing story. I distrust fictionalized insights. I read the book. It reminds me of Carlos Castenada - it's either real or it isn't. It may or may not portray the
native Australians accurately. I wouldn't know - very few would. However, it is accurate in portraying
the mainstream white culture that the
author and I come from.
Steve Herzfeld
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Summary: Mutant Message May Be Mutated, But Mainly A Must Read
Review: Although ashamed that I do not know any aboriginees, and that I am ignorant about their culture, I think it serves a purpose. I DO KNOW that this book sent a message which made me rethink life as I know it. It left me with a good impression of the aboriginees, whether that impression is based on lies, I do not know! All I can say is that it is a very interesting read - you come out feeling cleansed, with a new look on life. A definite must read
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Summary: The book offered an excellent spiritual message.
Review: Although the author is no literary genius, and the writing was not brilliant, the power of the message cannot be denied. The similarities between Australia's treatment of the Aborigines (i.e., the propaganda disseminated about their supposed inferiorities, etc.) and America's treatment of our Native Americans and our Black population were chilling. Of course it would be disgraceful and disgusting if the accusations are true that Morgan exploited the Aborigine people to write a bestseller to enrich her finances. But all of those issues are extraneous to the message of the book which I found to be profound and deeply touching, especially as I read this at a time when unhappy life situations were threatening to engulf me in depression. The "Real People's" message brought me back into the sunshine, putting the details of my life into perspective.
As I attempt to encourage friends and family to read this book, I have found it nearly impossible to express exactly how the message affected and enlightened me. It is my opinion that it is irrelevent whether this is a true story of a small tribe of people, living life at its most basic, or if it is a figment of the author's imagination. The whole point was the message which most of the reviewers missed in their haste to jump on the author and her motives for writing it. Who cares? The value in a book is measured by the gains made in reading it--and by that measure this book was priceless
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Summary: "The play is the thing" --Shakespeare
Review: While I can completely understand the viewpoints of the reviews I just read, I would like to say that the "Message", however contrived, is the point. I would LOVE to hear from anyone about this book (I'm doing a project for my Senior Seminar at Eastern Illinois University)...please Email me with ANY viewpoints or information you may have--I would greatly appreciate it.
As for the text, all controversies aside, I felt it was a bit pedantic & cliche, but I did glean some sense of the "message" nonetheless. It seems at times to be written by a third-grader... perhaps this is the "child-like" view the author intends? I don't think it will stand out as a literary classic by any means, but it has it's point (that's why I gave it a "5" rating--I'm a fence-sitter!!) Anyway, if you don't care about the purported exploitation, the "fact or fiction" debate, and the like, go ahead & read it...any one who has read this PLEASE contact me & let me know what you think!!
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Summary: Some people can't see past the end of their nose.
Review: As I was reading the reviews by my esteemed peers, I becamemore angry and upset at the closeminded remarks. When I read thisbook, it stirred such a variety of emotions in me that are beyond explanation. Whether Morgan chooses to classify her work as non-fiction or fiction is irrelevant. This book is a brilliant piece of work and has many underlying messages, other than the ever present pro-ecology one. If some readers cannot pick up and appreiciate them, that is no reason to attack the quality of the work. Many people have said that the natives have denied ever knowing Morgan, but if tourists swarmed like flies all over my sacred sites, I wouldn't be in a hurry to divulge any more (potentially harmful) information, either. All in all, I believe this is a wonderful, stirring book and highly recommend it to others. What you choose to gleen from it however is your choice. Being of the younger generation, this world is mine to inherit, and I for one a sick of the judgemental attitudes and disregard for ou
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Summary: one of the best to experience dreamtime
Review: In reading other readers comments , I have to write my own ideas of the book. The bad comments are grossly unfair and miss the most important part of the book. This book is dreamtime ! All humanity "owns" this exciting part of our nature. This book gave me the opportunity to visit dreamtime in an aboriginal sense.Whether it is truth or fiction doesn't matter- what was important was your experience . This book touched me in a very special part of myself as it has touched thousands of others. The special mystical part of humaness and our origins that we all are connected to. Remember, we are all cousins! So look at the ugliest black, yellow, white, red, etc. and you are there. This book contains an essence that belongs to our collective spiritual consciousness. God Bless the authoress
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Summary: Excellent Book!
Review: I read this book immediately after visiting Australia. I found it to represent very well the little bit of Aboriginal culture I witnessed. The Aborigines are a very private people so it doesn't surprise me that they discounted everything written in this book. How many other cultures have we destroyed because of our 'fascination' with their difference? Because of their private nature, I couldn't understand their life. I came back from Australia craving knowledge about a culture so very different than our own. 'Mutant Message Down Under' fulfilled my need to learn more. It was very easy reading. I don't know if everything written is true, but even if just a little bit was, I learned more than I knew before reading this book. Learning is understanding; understanding is knowledge; knowledge is power
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Summary: A blatant exploitation of the very people she sanctifies
Review: I believe in free speech, but this book is a terrible abuse of that principle. The author is getting very rich from sales of this book, while the Aborigines she purports to admire have their wishes ignored.
The local Aborigines deny ever seeing her, and say that she has grossly misrepresented their culture. It is just another form of cultural imperialism dressed up in New Age language.
The author has ignored the wishes of the local Aboriginal people, who have repeatedly asked her to retract her statements. She blithely continues her best-selling run, apparently without a care in the world for her subjects.
I don't agree with censorship, but this would be one book that deserves to be left off the shelves. That amazon.com is *promoting* this book in its Spotlight is a great disappointment to me.
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