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Title: Way to Be!: Nine Ways to Be Happy and Make Something of Your Life by Gordon B. Hinckley ISBN: 0-7432-3830-3 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 06 August, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (10 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Advice across generations
Comment: "Way to Be!: Nine Ways to Be Happy and Make Something of Your Life" is by Gordon B. Hinckley and has a foreword by Steve Young. This is basically an advice book directed towards young people. The text is structured around 9 "Be's": Be Grateful, Smart, Involved, Clean, True, Positive, Humble, Still, and Prayerful.
Although Hinckley has risen to the position of President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (i.e. the Mormon church), the book has virtually no Mormon-specific content. Nevertheless, the book does have a Christian-specific orientation, so while Hinckley seems to go beyond the Mormon community to embrace a Catholic and Protestant Christian readership, non-Christians may find some of the book's content to be a subtle barrier.
Religious orientation aside, the book does include commonsense advice. I found the text most interesting when Hinckley, who was born in 1910, talks about his early life. He paints a vivid and appealing portrait of his boyhood and young manhood in the early 20th century.
Yes, at times Hinckley sounds grouchy and ranting, and some of his advice seems vague and disconnected with contemporary events. But overall the book is enjoyable and interesting--at times it's genuinely inspiring.
Rating: 5
Summary: "Simple Truth Miscalled 'Simplicity.'" Sonnet 66
Comment: This book is geared towards the youth and teenagers, and is a companion volume to President Hinckley's "Standing For Something." So don't expect the King Follet Discourse when you read this book. Instead expect straight talk and simple language about what the youth can do about improving the world.
I found this book to be refreshing in that it focuses on the way youth need to be, and what they can do to themselves to improve. It doesn't advocate the type of "Superman" activism, where people go off to other lands for a certain amount of time and solve everyone else's problems. Nor does the book rely on political-governmental solutions to the world's problems. Instead, President Hinckley suggests nine habits, or virtues, that the youth can incorporate in their lives to help change themselves.
This is a quiet book. It doesn't advocate a new government bureaucracy, or tax cut to solve the problems the youth are facing. It suggests the simple and soft things we can do to make a difference. Much like the three servings of leaven that filled the whole loaf.
Rating: 1
Summary: over-rated
Comment: Mr. Hinckley certainly seems like a nice man, but the book is pure fluff. Nothing of substance is said, it contains mostly trivial banalities.
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Title: Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes by Gordon B. Hinckley, Mike Wallace ISBN: 0609807250 Publisher: Three Rivers Press (CA) Pub. Date: 20 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Our Search for Happiness an Invitation by M. Russell Ballard ISBN: 0875799175 Publisher: Deseret Book Co Pub. Date: 01 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: Stand a Little Taller: Counsel and Inspiration for Each Day of the Year by Gordon Bitner Hinckley ISBN: 1570087679 Publisher: Eagle Gate Publishers Pub. Date: 01 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Miracle of Forgiveness by Spencer W. Kimball ISBN: 0884944441 Publisher: Deseret Book Co Pub. Date: 01 January, 1993 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Truth Restored by Gordon B. Hinckley ISBN: 0877477655 Publisher: Deseret Book Company Pub. Date: 01 January, 1979 List Price(USD): $1.50 |
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