A review by thatgirlwiththeteapot
The Te of Piglet by Benjamin Hoff

2.0

In all honesty, this book was extremely disappointing compared to the first. Instead of focusing on Taoist beliefs and how the Pooh characters exhibit them, Benjamin spent much more time talking about politics, and how our country is being run wrong. Which I normally wouldn't have minded too much, because as it turns out, Mr. Hoff and I are more or less on the same page politically, but at times you could just feel his anger at the state of the country (And considering that at this point this book is 20 years old and we still face many of the same problems, I'm not going to try to tell you that our country is in a good place yet.) And yet while I agreed with a lot of what he was saying, it felt like he was yelling at me, or trying to argue with me, while I was on the same page as him.

I also had a bit of a problem with the way he treated the Pooh characters in this book. He was kind of mean and condescending to Owl, Eeyore, and Rabbit, and spoke to Pooh like he was an idiot. (I'm not trying to argue that Pooh isn't simple minded, it's just that he's endearingly so, and reading someone mocking him is off-putting) He also changed Piglet's essence in order to suit his purposes.

I can't tell you that it wasn't a good book, because it wasn't horrid, but it just wasn't a very good book on Taoism.