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dawnmdavison's review against another edition
3.0
Overall, I thought it was very uneven. A couple of chapters were thought-provoking and several sentences merited a highlighted. It was too stream-of-consciousness for my tastes and could have used a better editor to achieve a cohesive final product.
mslindsayjo's review against another edition
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
5.0
bobbo49's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
4.0
Life perspectives. To be reread.
cassidyemami's review against another edition
1.0
Bleh. I found the author to be SOOOOOO high and mighty. Plus it was quite repetitive. Not for me.
kiwikathleen's review against another edition
1.0
I thought this was going to appeal to me greatly, but by the time I got 20 pages in (of this 175 page book) he was still telling me what he was going to tell me about, so I couldn't be bothered any more.
laradahm's review against another edition
5.0
I started this book after Mom died and just finished it -- got distracted. It has a strong message about living like you are going to die in one year. Very thoughtful and helpful to me to think about my life and also to think about death!
lubinka's review against another edition
2.0
I'm sure that many people found solace in this book, but for me it was too abstract, and most of the author's "insights" were rather meaningless to me. Its all too poetic language failed to convey a more practical way for the reader (well, at least for me) to deal with the matter at hand. He and his family supposedly decided to live a year as if it's their last, and after a year of contemplating their lives in a rather general manner (ok, seeking and giving forgiveness and preparing themselves not to be "constipated by grief"), the year was over, with them - and us - none the wiser.
Sadly most people need to really be dying in order for them to be able to finally face their mortality, and this exercise in re-living your life as if in a retrospective was not able to make me really feel the anguish of death, or find the deliverance from said anguish. Even the praised "soft belly" meditation was just plain words to me. The second star is added simply for the fact that it made me think of this subject at all.
I suppose I'll die totally unprepared. Tough shit.
Sadly most people need to really be dying in order for them to be able to finally face their mortality, and this exercise in re-living your life as if in a retrospective was not able to make me really feel the anguish of death, or find the deliverance from said anguish. Even the praised "soft belly" meditation was just plain words to me. The second star is added simply for the fact that it made me think of this subject at all.
I suppose I'll die totally unprepared. Tough shit.