If you like thinking about existential anxiety, you'll really enjoy this book...no sarcasm. I loved it.
I read this years ago, and it really was extraordinary, beautiful, and quite practical in many senses.
I found the book shelved in "Self Help" in the Barnes and Noble bookstore. Yet The Road Less Traveled is on The Ultimate Reading List for "inspirational non-fiction." For that read "spiritual" and most often "Christian." That's fitting, because although the author was a practicing psychiatrist, it's...
I've been fascinated by the question of evil ever since learning about the Nazis and the Holocaust as a child. I've never lost the part of me that wonders, "Why?" and that was only reinforced post-9/11. This approaches the question of evil from a psychological point of view--for Peck is a practicing...
This book was interesting and strange. This theory that human evil rests not in graphic acts but in small lies designed to hide is fascinating. I liked how he showed that the type of people most destructive in their relationships with others are the people who refuse to recognize others as having fe...
This book saved me.
Douchey crap. The worst sort of self-obsessed pop psychology.
A waste of time and waste of paper. It is so self centric and bullshit that I have to throw it out instead of donating it to library.
the downside of working in a bookstore is that you're inclined to see what everyone is on about with popular books outside of your usually interests. whether it's my lack of interest at the onset, or what, I didn't get anything from this.
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