The Noticer, by Andy Andrews
Monday, April 27, 2009 at 05:00AM 
A countrified version of Kahlil Gibran's "The Prophet" is how I'd describe "The Noticer" by Andy Andrews.
That is not a criticism. This is a book that, like Gibran's "The Prophet" gives the reader sweet, sane, simple but solid advice on subjects such as love, respect, parenting, and purpose in life. Every generation and every community needs this advice in a style to which they can relate.
The advice about communicating love to your spouse in a style they can understand is by itself worth reading "The Noticer".
This book will also, I predict, inspire many, many, many writers or wannabe writers to think "I could have done this (and maybe better)" and to wish they had. But--nah--author and corporate speaker Andy Andrews was meant to write this new classic story of inspiration, just as the folks who are supposed to meet the title character Jones/Garcia/Chen do so in "The Noticer".
Criticize it if you like for being simple, but simple is often just what we need, and the test of a book like this is whether the reader learns something about herself or himself in reading it. Jones and Andy Andrews passed that test easily for me. It's a book I will read again; it's a quick read, and most of all, because I'll miss Jones/Garcia/Chen.
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