The Tao Made Easy: Timeless Wisdom to Navigate a Changing World by Alan CohenMy rating: 2 of 5 stars
I used $1.99 worth of free Amazon credits toward Great on Kindle eBooks to 'purchase' this book.
It seems a lot of self-help books end up on Amazon at very low prices. This is the only book I've read about the Tao Te Ching, and I probably won't try any others. The format was interesting, with fictional anecdotes of Lao Tze and an unnamed follower interspersed with Cohen's recapping the Tao Te Ching and giving examples from the world and his own life. The fictional anecdotes were probably my favorite part of the book. The rest seemed the same hash over and over again.
Some of the things Cohen states as bald fact are just too outrageous to give credit, like the mention of the Global Consciousness Project. While I love me a random number generator to help me make a decision, I don't believe we're psychically influencing it. And this line made me laugh: "The Earth in its original state was rich in oxygen far beyond the levels we experience today."
One thing I can get behind: "Life is about love, and love does not depend on bodies." I just finished reading Bag of Bones by Stephen King, and this could be a one-line review of that book.
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