PDF The Tao of Pooh WinniethePooh Benjamin Hoff 9780525244585 Books

Product details Series Winnie-the-Pooh (Book 1) Hardcover 176 pages Publisher Dutton; Later Printing edition (April 30, 1982) Language English ISBN-10 9780525244585 ISBN-13 978-0525244585 ASIN 0525244581

The Tao of Pooh WinniethePooh Benjamin Hoff 9780525244585 Books Reviews

• This book saved my life! No really. When I read this book 12 years ago, I was able to quit heroin for good. And trust me when i say that I was an addict of the hopeless variety.
• The Tao of Pooh was awesome. It really helped me be content with where I am in life at the moment. It stresses a release from ego and being in touch with the flow of the world. I am pretty new to the concept of Taoism, but the author presented it in an easy-to-follow way and put more emphasis on the philosophy part than the religious part.
  
  One common criticism is that it comes off as anti-intellectual at times. I agree to an extent, but it is important to realize that being smart doesn't instantly make your life better. There is no end to the pursuit of knowledge, and while science is a crucial part of modern life, it isn't the key to happiness or a fulfilling life.
  I would recommend this to anyone who feels like there is something missing in their life, or for those who struggle to be happy because of depression and/or anxiety.
• It has a lot of good insight, and a lot of things to think about in life. Overall I'm glad that I read it but I did have quite a few issues with it as well. The author very obviously does not like modern technology or the United States. And that's fine, we do have a lot to work on. but he would say negative things about people being busy and basically talked negatively about workers, but then some of the examples for success he gave were the greatest inventor in architecture of our time, and Thomas Edison. Not making great correlations.
  
  Also, he talks negatively about things like Burger stands in the United States and saying that, how in China they have tea shops where you can sit and talk and interact and be social and Europe they have coffee shops where you can sit and talk and interact and be social, but in America we have Burger stands which force you to get in and get out quickly as possible. As if we don't have establishments in the United States where you can sit and talk and interact and be social, or that they don't have fast food restaurants in China they get you in and out the door as quick as possible.
  
  As I said I do like the book, I do appreciate and think he points out a lot of great things. I did write down a lot of things and take my own notes on a lot of things that he discussed and overall I'm very glad that I read it and I'll try to use the advice given.
• I'm going through stage 4 cancer diagnosis shock and I find this book to be so comforting. Keep it simple and basic. Life is only as complicated as you let it become. I pick this up frequently to read and ground myself.
• I was introduced to this book as required reading for my yoga training certification. Not only did I love the book, but have bought several as gifts since reading it. It was a very easy to read, light-hearted and humorous, yet also contained deep philosophical ideas. The writing style is unique and entertaining and it is the perfect blend of entertaining and thought provoking content. As someone new to the ideas of Taoism, this book helps illustrate the major tenants in plain "layman's terms" even I could understand. Would be a great book for the vacation reader as well as the scholar. I think this book is suitable for readers of all ages, there is something to be gained for nearly every audience. I do not practice Taoism, however, the lessons in this book are applicable to nearly everyone living in our busy modern world. Definitely a great addition to your permanent library, I highly recommend.
• I have to say that I am extremely displeased by this "newer" edition of one of my most beloved books of all time. I purchased this edition of "The Tao of Pooh" hoping that it would be a worthy successor to my old (but still very cherished) rather worn-down copy of the same book by the same publishing company assuming (like most people) that it would more or less be the same and that I could safely retire my original copy by granting it a long well-deserved rest. Boy was I stupidly naive to think so.
  
  From the VERY FIRST PAGE it was glaringly obvious that no one from Penguin Books bothered to proofread or even deign to so much as glance at what I assume was a new format of some sort for the book's typeface (which really doesn't make much sense given that both books are exactly the same size/dimensions) and that somewhere along the line, typographical errors such as inconsistent spacing manifested magically (because technology is awesome that way).
  
  If you take a look at my attached pictures in this review, you'll be able to see for yourself a side-by-side comparison of an older edition of the book (purchased sometime in the mid-1990's if memory serves) on the Left and the "newer" edition on the Right. The spacing of the words are cringe-worthy and makes me desperately hope that my old edition will last just a bit longer for fear that I may just chuck the "new" edition out of a window someday out of sheer frustration when I do eventually need to resort to using it. The spacing/spelling errors are fairly consistent (or inconsistent if you'd like) throughout a large proportion of the book as I've found out after performing a quick cursory glance from page-to-page, cover-to-cover.
  
  In short, do yourself a favor and find another edition of this otherwise fantastically written book elsewhere that hopefully doesn't look like it was actually typed up by real Penguins (I've heard that it's rather difficult to type with a beak after all, but who knows?). Personally, I'm going to hang onto my trusty old edition just a while longer and I hope that Penguin Books finds "the Way" to resolving this easily-rectified issue sooner rather than later.
• An absolutely delightful but deep translation of the Tao Te Ching. Benjamin Hoff puts the teachings into the world and characters of Pooh and brings a unique way to understand what can be very difficult teachings to understand. This is my third purchase of this book, I wore the other two out. It's one of those books that you can read continuously, over and over, and keep learning new things every time.