tamargabrielle's review against another edition
2.0
@Niki I gave it my best shot, but couldn't get past how heteronormative and gendered it all was :') However still a fun read and quick intro to sun signs
thotdemon's review against another edition
4.0
this gets 4 stars purely bcs it has not been revised since it has been written but it is pure comedy gold absolutely adore it linda goodman u are my hero
monikamalka's review against another edition
5.0
I read this book back in the early 90s ... the signs of family members were described so well, that sometimes I wondered if she'd actually met that person! Her description of Gemini was spot on for my eldest!!!
wishfulfillment's review against another edition
4.0
Reading the Aquarius chapter was like reading erotica.
Linda Goodman has a good understanding of the main foundation of a person's chart: the sun sign. She makes it a point to remind the reader how the other signs in our charts can skew our "token" sun sign personality. I appreciated this about the description, even if reading about the "hardcore" version of every sign wasn't always fulfilling. She points out very specific and accurate details that might give a reader some insight about themselves. However she also provides the reader with an easy understanding of the complicated aspects of other signs.
I found this emotionally satisfying in terms of my own chapters. In terms of the chapters of others, I found it reassuring.
Linda Goodman has a good understanding of the main foundation of a person's chart: the sun sign. She makes it a point to remind the reader how the other signs in our charts can skew our "token" sun sign personality. I appreciated this about the description, even if reading about the "hardcore" version of every sign wasn't always fulfilling. She points out very specific and accurate details that might give a reader some insight about themselves. However she also provides the reader with an easy understanding of the complicated aspects of other signs.
I found this emotionally satisfying in terms of my own chapters. In terms of the chapters of others, I found it reassuring.
aanya12's review against another edition
5.0
OMG THE TEXT ABOUT VIRGOS WAS SO TRUE AND DAMN RELATABLE!!!
evelum's review against another edition
2.0
I read this book in high school as a part of one of my attempts to debunk horoscopes for some of the hardcore believers I knew (who actually hadn't done their research). I actually printed out the sign descriptions and picked a random selection of people both I and those other people knew well, and I underlined everything from each description that could've been said about a certain person to show that your sign didn't necessarily have the description that fit you the best, and that the percentage of the description that fit one person didn't necessarily change a lot across the signs. I wanted to show that horoscopes are written in a way that they can be interpreted to say almost anything depending on what you expect or want it to say. As a sixteen-year-old, I thought I was being clever.
The book was entertainingly written, though.
The book was entertainingly written, though.
bekahpaige's review against another edition
2.0
Book cost $.99. Read it quickly. It was entertaining & I'm a big-time skeptic but felt it was pretty accurate for me being a Libra. Where it got a little off and sexist was when it described the Libra "woman" as compared to the man, felt a bit outdated at that point.