Jack Canfield
Paperback | Pages: 428 pages Rating: 3.96 | 35070 Users | 850 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Chicken Soup for the Soul |
| ISBN: | 1558749209 (ISBN13: 9781558749207) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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¡REVIEW #500!one fine summer day, young mark monday - aged 4 or 5 - was tooling around the neighborhood on his Big Wheel. he was a happy lad and liked to make others around him feel happy too. this outlook soon saw its first challenge when he wheeled up to his friend Tommy - who looked miserable and had clearly been crying.
"What's the matter, Tommy?"
"Dad's going away!"
young mark monday was a military brat and so was Tommy, so mark knew exactly how he felt. he had felt the same way, many times. but he hated seeing his friend Tommy looking so upset. he thought for a moment, and as his thoughts tended to do, they moved towards his favorite shows, Sesame Street and Electric Company. what happened when kids had problems on those shows, problems that they didn't know how to solve? why, they sang about them! and then the problems just didn't seem so big anymore. and so young mark sang.
"Don't be sa-ad, Tommy!
Just be gla-ad, Tommy!
The sun is bright,
Let your heart take --"
mark was silenced when Tommy suddenly picked up a rock and smashed it right into his face. then Tommy ran off. mark sat there stunned... then slowly rode his Big Wheel home, crying and bleeding. from that day on, he knew the dangers of trying to turn a frown upside down.
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| Title | : | Chicken Soup for the Soul |
| Author | : | Jack Canfield |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 428 pages |
| Published | : | July 1st 2001 by HCI (first published 1993) |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. Self Help. Inspirational. Short Stories. Personal Development. Psychology. Spirituality |
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Ratings: 3.96 From 35070 Users | 850 ReviewsRate Out Of Books Chicken Soup for the Soul
Douchey crap. These kind of platitude-laden opiates really do more harm in lowering the IQ of readers than in any salving they might accomplish.This book is about being motivated in life. The stories written are by people who actually survived cancer. They write their own story and the author will compile these stories into one. The book teaches about the value of resilience and how other people are suffering in life but still know there is still light in the end of the tunnel. There is this one story that also touched me, a single women adopted a cat who ended up being sick over the time of taking care of the cat. The women got sick as
REVIEW #500!one fine summer day, young mark monday - aged 4 or 5 - was tooling around the neighborhood on his Big Wheel. he was a happy lad and liked to make others around him feel happy too. this outlook soon saw its first challenge when he wheeled up to his friend Tommy - who looked miserable and had clearly been crying."What's the matter, Tommy?""Dad's going away!"young mark monday was a military brat and so was Tommy, so mark knew exactly how he felt. he had felt the same way, many times.
Once, I started reading I just wanted to keep on going. Beautiful compilation of inspiring and most importantly, True stories.Mostly, I read self-help books, in which I had to follow an order in which I read the book. But, having this book was a refreshing change for once.
Unfortunately, I had to throw this book away after reading it. I'd worn it out. Whole sections could no longer be held together with tape.Even though this was a re-reading, and many of the stories have become wayyyyyyy too familiar over the years (the starfish story), the stories still had the power to make me cry... even in front of my students (who were silently reading their own versions of Chicken Soup).I'm buying a new copy for next year.
This is a really odd book. Although I really liked a few of the stories, many of them seemed engineered to make the reader dab at the eyes with a tissue. The act of giving out hugs to randomly chosen strangers has been elevated nearly to the status of a religion. And as warmly as I feel toward some of my friends here on Goodreads, I'm just not a very spontaneous hugger. *Sigh*
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