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Summary: Simply racist cultural appropriation
Review: As an Aboriginal Australian this book made me sick. It is arrogant and self serving, totally disrespectful of Aboriginal people and factually incorrect. Many Aboriginal people have protested about this book and there are more being printed!!??It is the hight of racism to suggest that Aboriginal people need saving by some white middle class woman! We have a culture that is more than 60,000 years old - we have survived more than two hundred of colonisation. Do you think we need Marlo Morgan to save us? She would be better off trying to save herself. BAN IT!
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Summary: I'm in the middle of reading it for the 3rd time.
Review: I love this book. It validates everything I've always thought about the world and life. I keep reading it over and over again for the messages of love and learning that it provides.
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Summary: An Utterly Terrible Book
Review: I am not fully aware of the controversy surrouning this book, but if anyone says that this account is true, those people are simply wrong. The ideas that this goup of Aborigines could communicate telepathically, or sense when a vegetable in the ground was ripe by some sixth sense, are simply impossible. And this says nothing of the endless cleches about how terrible people in advanced civilization are, and the fact that this book has a poor writing style, with errors spinkled throughout. If we decide to follow what Marlo Morgan says, we should all strip down, get rid of anything we own that may or may not be helpful, and go walking in a boiling hot desert. The talk of these Aborigines understanding all of life's problems and having "oneness" is bascally garbage,because it seems that their lifestyle is not exactly as great as Ms. Morgan tells us. It is apparently very stylish to downgrade western civilization in comparison to basically ANYTHING, and Marlo Morgan sinks to a new low in this category. Avoid this book at all costs, unless you'd like a good laugh from a very fictional tale.
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Summary: interesting at first but...
Review: becomes tedious and uninteresting. I didn't finish it.
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Summary: Wow Interesting response to this book
Review: Wow, people either love it or hate it......so if the books message is about love and acceptance then thoes that dislike it and are so critical and petty must be haters and the ones who like it must be lovers......When I read the book some of the things could have been made up but how could she have made up the things like the telepathy head to head talk with animals and people? I found more REAL spiritual lessons in this book than all the sunday school ive ever had to sit through...... As I type this some fake looking actress making the WORST forced grin is staring at me from the cover of a people magazine...... anyways this is what im talking about.......of couse people didnt like this book....because alot of it tells us to be REAL and who the hell is real in the mutant world? ive met VERY few....from bosses to girlfriends to friends and aquainences in general.
Most of what I read everday that is said to be REAL reads like fiction to me while Marlo's fiction sounds alot more like fact......this WOULD happen if you were abducted by Aborigineese......And I like what the aboriginese say , things like animals were not originally used as food by humans coincides with some eastern religions ive researched (Taoisim). And we ARE destroying our planet if you havent noticed.....bet they didnt have polluted skies 200-300 yrs ago...as well as everyone haveing a valuble place in the tribe weather you were a tool maker or a tribal chieftan. I really liked the PART ABOUT OUR BUSINESS ETHICS, it was soooo right on what the Ooota fellow said about it. ANd to answer some idiot a few reviews back ,who cares if Oota is spelled with upper or lower case letters , its probably niether since his name is a sound or thought that cant be properly expressed in our language,lower that nose a little you may be scareing the sun away....it seems that EVERYONE was needed for survival and included even the extremely old.....and growing old was not seen as negative in the tribal culture......and is it really? to live a long time seems in our culture to be punished rather than celebrated......look at that poor old man/lady or "oh hes just a little kid whats he good for" mentality...... well the human race is gonna pay and pay BIG very soon, hell, America already has gotten its karmic debit repaid (september 11th) mark my words ladies and germs.....for what it does to itself and everything else it comes in contact with........we are not alone in this universe..... even that can be almost proven....its only a matter of time when someone spills the beans on the truth behind "aliens" too....
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Summary: Down Under
Review: This was one of the best books I have read! The amazing adventure experienced by the main character makes one question of one perceptions of what our universe is and has also given me a new respect for the incredible aborigines and their beliefs and knowledge of the world.
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Summary: Absolute sham, hoax & insult to aborginal people
Review: On first reading I thought Morgan's book was inspirational and contained a very positive message. As an Australian I was however concerned over some of the details of the book, that didn't quite add up to my knowledge of Aboriginal culture (allbeit limited). On further investigation I discovered the huge controversy that has surrounded this book, and Ms Morgans admission that it was a hoax. Does it matter if the details are incorrect. Yes it does. Because it is portraying an erroneous image of a nations indigenous people. The cross between Native American Indians and aboriginal mythology is obvious, and the disregard for the importance of secret men and womens business is against all aboriginal law. Legal campaigns have been mounted, and if one good thing has come out of this, it has galvanised the aboriginal community into action.
A wall of shame has been established and this book is but yet another of many entries. Meanwhile Ms Morgan travels the world, giving lectures and pretending to be an authority on a culture that she has no knowledge of.
Marlo May you hang your head in shame.
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Summary: Mixed Message Down Under?
Review: Although the later issues of this book identify the story as a fictional account (on the back cover) Marlo Morgan intentionally confuses her readers by insisting in her Foreword that she has portrayed this story in novel form in order to protect the Aborigines who allegedly abducted her.
I think an author owes it to the reader to be straightforward about the book's basic premise. Morgan's coyness with respect to this important issues undermines what little credibility exists in this highly implausible story.
Credibility issues aside, Morgan seems to heap one unbelievable premise upon another. The reader is asked to accept Aboriginal characters who speak as if they were Oxford grads, and to tolerate a clumsy concoction of "Mrs. Kansas Pageant" casserole cooking anecdotes and New Age cliches. The result is an amateurish portrayal that grows goofier as it progresses. If you wish to read books that deal with the same issues in a more professional manner, try something by Anne Morrow Lindbergh,
Izaak Walton, or Henry David Thoreau.
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Summary: Great Story!
Review: It's the only fiction about aboriginal life in Australia I've ever found, so it's hard to compare it to anything else, but I loved this book! It offers a glimpse into another way of looking at the world and offers tips on ways to improve your own life. This is an excellent book just for enjoyment as well.
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Summary: Hoaky!
Review: This book is poorly written and obviously fiction. There are so many holes in it that it should be swiss cheese. I had to make myself finish it so that at my Book Club I could atleast say I finished it before I tore it apart. Though it may have a small bit of merit as a "new age" inspirational, it comes off as silly and poorly thought out. I never once believed that this happened. I was so glad that it wasn't longer because I couldn't have taken another page. I don't understand all the reviews of "who cares if it is true or not". If a writer wants to get a message out, it can be done well without faking an experience. I was grateful for all the negative reviews that gave specific examples of the flaws from the book and regarding the author. She should be embarrassed! I was embarrassed to read it! Leave it on the shelf where it belongs.
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