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 The Lost Choice June 30, 2008
This is a book that causes the reader to search our purpose in living each day. Are we making a difference in the lives of others? Are we changing the world in a big way by little choices we make to better each day and help others along the way? After reading the first two chapters, I got a highlighter and started again, highlighting the life-altering sentences. As I reread those sections, I have a guide, simple questions I can ask myself each day. The book inspired me to reflect, to search myself, and to act. I have just ordered another book by the same author. He is particularly astounding with his insight.
 The Lost Choice can help you find your life December 15, 2007
Andy Andrews is a master storyteller. In all of his writings, his gift for bringing a message comes through in a clear and compelling set of characters and events. But Andy Andrews is so much more than this - Andy Andrews is a teacher.
I agree with other reviewers that his message is maturing, and yet even in this evolution, he still has so much to teach. The lessons he offers are profound, insightful, and wise. But even this is not what moves me most. What draws me to his work again and again is his ability to speak from his heart.
When he writes about relationships, you can feel his own love for the people in his life. When he writes about children, you can feel his love for his own. His work is filled with the sense of uplifting goodness that not only entertains and educates, it inspires.
I'm grateful to Andy for his inspiration through The Lost Choice and the Travelers Gift. He has shaped my thoughts and my own writing, as well as the lives of all the people to whom I have given his books.
Like so many others, I await the next message he will choose to bring and will be among the first to appreciate and learn from it.
Jim Huling author of Choose Your Life!: A Powerful, Proven Method for Creating the Life You Want
Left me speachless December 13, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I had read The Traveler's Gift a while back, which I liked, and recently I decided to look for another novel to read. When I stumbled upon The Lost Choice, I thought I'd check it out; it was pretty cheap on Amazon. Well, it turned out to be even better than The Traveler's Gift. Not only was it a captivating read, but it was a really inspiring and thought provoking read. This is one book I don't plan on reselling or trading in. Sorry folks, it's mine. And then someday it will be my son's and then his son's and then...
If I could give this book 10 stars, I would! November 19, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is so good. I can't say a lot more because I don't want to ruin it for you--don't start reading it before bed or you'll have to stay up to finish it.
Are you ready for a little soul-searching? November 5, 2007
2 out of 15 found this review helpful
I would first like to point out that the product information on Amazon is incorrect. This is not a 64 page book. I believe that product info is for Andrew's book, "Socks for Christmas". THE LOST CHOICE by Andy Andrews is 247 pages.
Andrew's is one of my favorite writers. His book, "The Traveler's Gift" is one of my all-time favorites. If you haven't read it, I give it my highest recommendation. The Lost Choice is not as compelling a read as The Traveler's Gift, but is nonetheless a wonderful read of it's own.
The subject here is an ancient relic. Whoever possessed the relic, or one of the pieces thereof, held a date with predestination, giving them the rather providential ability to achieve great things. Lest the relic should fall into the wrong hands, it was broken into four separate pieces nearly two thousand years ago. Each piece, since that time, has brought an area of great achievement to its possessor.
This riveting tale travels through history and reminds the reader of what so many others have achieved before us. George Washington Carver, Queen Elizabeth, William Wallace and Oskar Schindler, just to name a few.
Unlike other works by Andrews, the inspirational message here is not crystal clear, but lies instead, just beneath the surface. I could see where some readers might place the emphasis on the object, but the object is simply Andrew's tool for delivering the message. We don't need to find a piece of relic with the power to make us do great things. That piece of relic is already there, within each of us. The question becomes, what we choose to do with it.
You see, even though the relic itself is fictional, Oskar Schindler still found it inside himself to save lives at the enormous risk of losing his own. George Washington Carver still found it inside himself to feed literally millions of people with his work in agriculture. It is well documented that indeed, Alfred Vanderbilt did indeed sacrifice his own safety to save lives on the Lusitania. What influenced these people to make those decisions and dedicate their lives to others? Whatever it was, we each possess that same thing within ourselves. What will we each do with it?
In the end, I believe Andrews failed slightly to bring the story to an acceptable close. The epilogue seemed as though Andrews didn't know quite how to finish his great story. Nonetheless, a very good book that will send you searching your soul and asking yourself the hard questions in life.
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