AnyBook4Less.com	Find the Best Price on the Web Order from a Major Online Bookstore
Home  |  Store List  |  FAQ  |  Contact Us  |
Ultimate Book Price Comparison Engine Save Your Time And Money Keyword AuthorISBN

Title: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Improving Your IQ by Richard G. Pellegrino, Alpha Group, Michael J. Politis ISBN: 0-02-862724-5 Publisher: Alpha Books Pub. Date: 23 December, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95

Your Country USA Canada United Kingdom Australia Austria Belgium France Germany Italy Netherlands Switzerland Currency AutoUSD CAD GBP EUR AUD CHF Delivery Only cheapest delivery All delivery options Include Used Books Are you a club member of: Barnes and Noble Books A Million Chapters.Indigo.ca

Average Customer Rating: 2.71 (7 reviews)

Rating: 3
Summary: OK, but not what I was expecting.
Comment: As said in prior reviews, this is not a book filled with puzzles and logic problems. It is not truly a book on how to improve your IQ, as the title implies. It is instead a book on how to be effective with the intelligence that you possess, and how to put it to use.

It had a very large section on how the brain reacts and interprets data from the different senses. Very technical. This I was uninterested in. Just give me the bottom line on that, please. I made myself read these chapters just in case the info was needed in the following chapters, but really, a brief skimming would have been sufficient.

To sum up the book, to be effective in gaining practical intelligence, you must set goals and work for them without getting sidetracked. It basically encourages you map out what your goals are and what you need to do to accomplish them, then to use all your senses to reach these goals. It tells you how having an emotional link to what you are trying to accomplish is critical.

The most interesting part of the book was how your mind fills in information based on past experiences and how you can reprogram your mind to associate positive feelings to things you may have had an aversion to from those past experiences. The discussion around how the mind tries to make things flow smoothly and fill in gaps was also interesting.

All in all, it was OK. Like I said, not what I expected, but I did take some useful things away from it.

Rating: 5
Summary: It Works
Comment: Richard G. Pellegrino is an expert in the field of human intelligence and he has produced a well written, scholarly work which undoubtedly achieves its aim of improving IQ. I sold my copy to Russell Crowe for $45 more than I paid for it, and the 'actor' read it in two hours. The title, that is. A year later, after he'd finished the actual book, Crowe called me and said excitedly, "Schwarz, it works! At first I thought this was a great book but by the final page I was smart enough to see that it's the worstest thing what has ever been wrote."
I sat back in my chair, lit a cigar with the $50 note Crowe had paid me for my unread copy, and said, "Russ, you're a genius."
"A what? How do you spell that?"
As I hung up, I could hear him flipping through the 'j' section of the dictionary.

Rating: 1
Summary: Absolutely Mistitled
Comment: I expected to find, at least, nutritional suggestions, examples of "mental exercises" one can perform, etc. The authors get your attention with the title, and then [ruin] your expectations because the content is, quite simply, useless. It's fluff and "feel good" material ("you're only as intelligent as you are effective! that's all that matters!") and should be avoided by a person who's serious about improving their brain.