Have you ever listened to the podcast If Books Could Kill? Highly recommend it, they pick different ‘airport books’ each week (non-fiction fad books, often woo woo themed) and discuss them and the impact they had.

On the episode about The Secret, they say that the book influenced a woman to give up chemotherapy because she really thought that asking the universe to cure her would work.

I guess burning books like this would be harmful at this point because we need to use them as examples of exactly how junk science can be harmful, but i can’t help but think how many people might have been harmed unnecessarily by books like The Secret.

Terrible book.

The general idea was promising but thats because it’s the plot to Its A Wonderful Life. It lacked any real logic or thought in to the mechanics of the library and the overall tone was just too condescending for me where depression is concerned. I realise it’s based on Matt Haig’s real experiences but it just came across as a bit flat, it lacked any real nuance or understanding in favour of a cheesy happy ending.