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| A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose (Oprah's Book Club, Selection 61) | 
 enlarge | Author: Eckhart Tolle
Publisher: Penguin
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1296 reviews
Sales Rank: 30
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
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Pages: 336
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 8 x 5.4 x 0.9
ISBN: 0452289963
Dewey Decimal Number: 204.4
EAN: 9780452289963
ASIN: 0452289963
Publication Date: January 30, 2008
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Condition: BRAND NEW BOOK NEVER READ!!!!!!
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 Don't bother with this one November 3, 2006
69 out of 88 found this review helpful
After reading The Power of Now and listening to the book on CD several times, I greatly anticipated his subsequent books. I am very disappointed in his re-hashing the same information in his other books. In A New Earth, Tolle speaks with a strong disdain for his fellow humans. After a while I got tired of hearing about how "sick" and deranged we are. In Conversations with God, many of the same things are said, but you leave feeling uplifted and hopeful. Tolle's reading of his book leaves one feeling either depressed or irritated. Perhaps Tolle is so enlightened that he finds it difficult to be among his "unenlightened" brethren. To me, a sure sign of not being enlightened is judgment, and he seems full of that in this book. Not that I'm judging!
 Read this only if you are not thinking about suicide! July 16, 2007
69 out of 125 found this review helpful
The book can be condensed into one chapter. Ideas are repeated and repeated and repeated...
The ideas are age old. Nothing new here except perhaps the misrepresentations of Bible passages.
About as insightful as a George Bush speech.
A sad state of affairs... March 6, 2008
68 out of 104 found this review helpful
I find no clearer indictment of the American mind than the success of this book. What the author says of philosophy he gets wrong, and what he attempts do with religion is shameless. The author is heavily influenced by Eastern religious traditions and, considering how he is attempting to peddle his wares to an American audience, he splits the difference, attempting to dress his slant on "spirituality" as if it is somehow congenial with Western religious traditions of Judaism and particularly Christianity. There is no intellectual merit to this book, and those who find it life changing apparently have little exposure to great literature, be it philosophy or theology. If you have found merit and enjoyment in reading this book then you should congradulate yourself on how narrow your reading horizon is and, consequently, the shallow depth of your mind.
 Disappointed March 12, 2008
68 out of 77 found this review helpful
The book was a disappointment to me after all the Oprah hype. It is interesting, and I am almost finished with the book. However, it is a struggle for me to read, and I feel that I am not understanding a lot of it. I condider myself to be of average intelligence and wonder about the book's appropriateness for the masses, which I think was Tolle's intent. It would have been a lot more meaningful to me if it were told in a simpler, less complicated way. Once I struggle through a few pages, I can sort of see what he's trying to say, so why doesn't he just say it?! I know there's a message in there somewhere - if I could just find it!
More Than A Bit Confusing April 1, 2008
66 out of 69 found this review helpful
OK, I saw the movie and since movies never seem go into the character of characters very well compared to the written word I felt as if the book would be a good place to start to understand what the author was trying to definatate.
But the book is very confusing and the plot doesn't seem to be anything like the flick. For example the name of the Will Smith character is different in the book (Loren) which is ok since as we all know the Incredible Hulk was "Bruce Banner" before it went on TV since that time Bruce was considered a sissy name (Bruce Willis might not agree, but then again his alter ego is called Bruno so may some validity lies upon that contention?).
But to the point, the scene where Major Will has to kill Sam his dawg because she is turning into a vampire mutant isn't in the book, or at least in my copy.
So what gives??
This book must have been really modified when they screenplayed it.
Unless Eckheart Toole really does think that mutantism is good and the wave of the future which I don't know since the book couldn't be finished and in fact I've returned it to the bookstore.
Be cautious about this book. It might not be what you think!!
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