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Title: The Circle of Simplicity: Return to the Good Life by Cecile Andrews ISBN: 0-06-092872-7 Publisher: Perennial Currents Pub. Date: 01 February, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.25 (12 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The most influential non-fiction book I read in 1997.
Comment: Feeling consumed by, rather than consuming, materialism? Too many trivial concerns cluttering your life? Ever feel like there's got to be a better way to live than the lifestyle mainstream society prescribes? Then you've got to check out Cecile Andrews's THE CIRCLE OF SIMPLCITY. It's more fun to read than WALDEN, more accessible than VOLUNTARY SIMPLICITY, and lots less holier-than-thou than Elaine St. James's plethora of "simple living" books. Andrews, in fact, seems like an old friend. Her writing style is immediately likeable and quite lucid. And I can assure you the book will change your life.
Rating: 3
Summary: A Story of One Person's Journey
Comment: Cecile does a good job of relating her personal simplicity journey. I especially enjoyed her insights about organized religion and how lacking it is in teaching us how to connect with our individual spiritual side. Some of her life experiences, as told, seem a bit trite, but it is her story. As a reader of many of these books I found the book to be 'fresh' in some of its ideas.
I almost fell out of bed when I reached the chapter espousing communism as a better way of life. Her premise being that it forces simplicity upon the participants thus saving them from a mis-guided life of the pursuit of riches. This chapter comes towards the end, I disagreed with her point of view so vehemently on this subject that I have to admit it did sour my overall enjoyment of the book. I found her view to be contradictory with personal choice.
Cecile writes in a very genuine voice. I found some good references in her book for further reading and research.
Rating: 1
Summary: Disappointed
Comment: I picked up this book after reading about it on the Simple Living network, which I found as an outgrowth of my interest in the work of the late Joe Dominguez and Vicki Robin and their work "Your Money or Your Life". Unlike Mr. Dominguez and Ms. Robin, who manage to lay out an actual plan for simple living, Ms. Andrews chooses to ramble and rail against consumerism. After reading Dominguez, this book is disjointed, preachy and quite frankly, bad. That's not so say that Ms. Andrews doesn't have some good ideas. She does, but as with so many anecdotal books, they're not the basis for changing your life in any significant way. If you live an environmentally sensitive life, Ms. Andrews will certainly make you feel good about yourself, but if your goal is to simplify your life, you could do better than spending time on this book.
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