# The Secret - Now I finally understand **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 10, 2009, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-secret-now-i-finally-understand/480727 "2009-01-10T23:08:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Lucretia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/13edae/32.png) [@Lucretia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucretia)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-secret-now-i-finally-understand/480727/41 "2009-01-14T01:53:43Z")
> [@ladyfoxfyre](#): > > It seems Amazon has removed this review. Too bad. Oh no! That is just…I smell a conspiracy here, I do. Perhaps someone with a great deal of money and influence…yes, I’m talking to you, Oprah! Well, I recommend reading the rest of his reviews, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-secret-now-i-finally-understand/480727/42 "2009-01-14T03:07:00Z")
The review can still be found here: > **[Best. Amazon. Review. Ever: the secret of The Secret is a shiv](https://www.inquisitr.com/14999/best-amazon-review-ever-the-secret-of-the-secret-is-a-shiv)** > > This has to be about the greatest Amazon review ever. It is a simple and moving account of how the book The Secret has the power to transform lives and people’s reality. SImply inspirational. Here it is in full. The Secret saved my life!, December 4,... ---
**Author:** ![KGS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90ced4/32.png) [@KGS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KGS)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-secret-now-i-finally-understand/480727/43 "2009-01-14T04:00:42Z")
> [@wheresgeorge04](#): > > Awesome! Just the title of [this one](http://www.amazon.com/2007-2012-Building-Excluding-Cafeteria-Restaurant/dp/0497503093/ref=cm_cr-mr-title) - the book title, not the review title - made me laugh so hard my wife asked if I would be OK. Awesome!! I’ve got hundreds of chairs that need to be stacked and I was searching all over for a book that would…aw crap, it’s for India! My chairs are in Turkmenistan. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-secret-now-i-finally-understand/480727/44 "2009-01-14T05:39:37Z")
> [@tim-n-va](#): > > When Mario Puzo’s _Fools Die_ came out, I read a brief review that said “Fools buy.” Then there was the memorable short review of the Olivia Newton John/ELO disco movie _Xanadu_, which read simply, “Xanadon’t.” ---
**Author:** ![willthekittensurvive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/91b2a8/32.png) [@willthekittensurvive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/willthekittensurvive)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-secret-now-i-finally-understand/480727/45 "2009-01-14T20:46:25Z")
link not working anymore…did someone tell amazon? ---
**Author:** ![PoorYorick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecccb3/32.png) [@PoorYorick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PoorYorick)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-secret-now-i-finally-understand/480727/46 "2009-01-14T21:45:21Z")
_This_ is what finally made me laugh out loud when reading his review of “The 2007-2012 Outlook for Public Building Stacking Chairs Excluding Bar, Bowling Center, Cafeteria, Library, Restaurant, and School Stacking Chairs in India”: [QUOTE=Mr.Brouillette] I won’t provide any spoilers in this forum, but I can’t help but tease the fact that I have found a widespread correlation between metal folding table usage at Baptist picnics and emergency room visitation for trauma in the distal and proximal interphalangeal joints. I encourage the many fans of this book to check back soon for my own publication. [/QUOTE] ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-secret-now-i-finally-understand/480727/47 "2009-01-14T22:59:56Z")
> [@Lucretia](#): > > Like most of the population of the Dope, I’ve always thought that The Secret, by Rhonda Byrne and made popular by Oprah Winfrey, was just so much woo woo hooey. But after reading [this review](http://www.amazon.com/review/R2X2TB3S4O5I60), I find my eyes opened, and now I fully understand how The Secret can, indeed, change lives. Linky no worky. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-secret-now-i-finally-understand/480727/48 "2009-01-14T23:07:40Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Linky no worky. ☹ See post 42. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-secret-now-i-finally-understand/480727.md?page=2)