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siebensommer's review against another edition
inspiring
reflective
3.5
kind of of its time but not as bad as i anticipated
good focus on the coexistence and intersection of science and spirituality and on leaving behind dogmas rather than blaming belief. reading this after all about love felt like unpacking a project from the finished product to its earlier stages, very fascinating
good focus on the coexistence and intersection of science and spirituality and on leaving behind dogmas rather than blaming belief. reading this after all about love felt like unpacking a project from the finished product to its earlier stages, very fascinating
we can indeed mature out of a belief in god. but we can also mature into a belief in god.
t_shaffner's review against another edition
5.0
This is one of those books that helped build up my model of the world in a way that has shaped my thinking ever since. It's one of the handful that I wish I could call out with an extremely rare sixth star; I would recommend it to anyone.
billierain's review against another edition
4.0
the origin of bell hooks' definition of love, which spawned a series of wonderful books.
mandymperhay's review against another edition
challenging
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
4.5
I was vacillating between 4 and 5 stars as I read the book. There were some things that just didn’t quite land or make sense to me. The whole laziness part especially I found to be really lacking. But I also took like 7 pages of notes; there was so much gold that I will take with me and hopefully will impact the way I think and live and parent.
branamalyssa10's review against another edition
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
5.0
comraderiri's review against another edition
challenging
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
4.5
cecile87's review against another edition
3.0
DNF: I had to put it down when he used a slave metaphor. He compared being run by one’s feelings to being run by one’s slaves. And then he proceeded to disparage the character of enslaved people to keep up the metaphor.
I’m so weary of the white man in charge trope. Some of my ancestors were enslaved people (the others were the enslavers)—some sadistically tortured for minor flaws by those in control of their bodies. So, although I have no issue with the advice to practice accountability and self-restraint (I value civility and genuine maturity), I can’t read further.
From what I have observed over the last year or so, I do agree that his main audience (I presume white people) does need to accept that life is hard and to stop being infantile when things don’t go your way. Like wearing masks and accepting an election loss. This country is chock-full of those privileged by accident of race who have dangerous infantile tendencies. But they won’t absorb the message in this book—few have any internal lives that could tolerate contemplation and the necessity to metabolize difficult feelings and drop certain mythologies—like the one where they are automatically superior to other human beings and thus entitled to cheat, steal, appropriate, dominate and oppress.
I’m so weary of the white man in charge trope. Some of my ancestors were enslaved people (the others were the enslavers)—some sadistically tortured for minor flaws by those in control of their bodies. So, although I have no issue with the advice to practice accountability and self-restraint (I value civility and genuine maturity), I can’t read further.
From what I have observed over the last year or so, I do agree that his main audience (I presume white people) does need to accept that life is hard and to stop being infantile when things don’t go your way. Like wearing masks and accepting an election loss. This country is chock-full of those privileged by accident of race who have dangerous infantile tendencies. But they won’t absorb the message in this book—few have any internal lives that could tolerate contemplation and the necessity to metabolize difficult feelings and drop certain mythologies—like the one where they are automatically superior to other human beings and thus entitled to cheat, steal, appropriate, dominate and oppress.
tombennett72's review against another edition
3.0
This book starts brilliantly. It’s wise and kind, and very useful. I found, though, that by halfway through the level of repetition was turning the act of reading the book overall into a chore.
mhumby123's review against another edition
3.0
The first 2 parts of this book is absolutely worth the read and 5 stars the last 2 are 2 stars and I still obtained value but not as much.