The Cube
Author: Annie Gottlieb
List Price: $14.00
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ISBN: 0062512668
Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco (08 September, 1995)
Sales Rank: 31,367
Average Customer Rating: 4.55 out of 5
Customer Reviews
Rating: 4 out of 5
Amazingly accurate but you can't play it twice.
You know those stupid psychological tests/games that you get via e-mail? arent those so stupid? and totally inaccurate? Well the CUBE was so frighteningly dead-on and intelligently deep that it puts all those to shame. You can psychoanalyze yourself in 5 questions that are really fun--or you can take a 200-question-long Kinsey Personality Test. Which is more sociable and enjoyable? I highly recommend this book as an ice-breaker and slumber parties and "bonding" activities of that sort. The only problem IMHO is that once you've played the Cube, that's it. Fini. The End. It's a one-time-use-only thing. It's of no logic to take a personality test twice unless you're schizophrenic. I found the book very entertaining and amazingly accurate on the first read, but after that it's useless. Buy this book if you have LOTS of friends, because no one can play it twice. (well you can play it twice but it's not fun the 2nd time; it's just completely redundant). Right now it's collecting dust so I am going to give it to my younger sister, who will have screaming fun with her sorority sisters over it. But again, once they've played the "Cube", no more. Just read it once and pass it on.
Rating: 5 out of 5
dead on accurate
It seems superfulous to add another glowing review tothe others that have already been written. The Cube was amazing. I suggest playing it by yourself rather than in a group. What you find out might upset your friends. Thats as much as a will give away. I have been desperate to find another self-discovery book that was as accurate but ot no avail. The Kology books were a big dissapoinment when compared to the accuracy of the Cube. There is absolutely nothing like it. I wish I could forget the secrets and play again to find how my perceptions have changed, but once you know the secret that it. So, don't give into the temptation to read ahead in the book!
Rating: 1 out of 5
waste of money
They ask about 4 questions in the beginning of the book; and then spend the other 300 pages babbling on and on about them. Surprisingly, the descriptions they offered in those 300 pages rarely met with my answers. So, unless I feel like doing some serious soul-searching over 4 questions, I was out of luck on it providing ANY insight at all. Either my imagination is completely idiosyncratic, or they just couldn't find space during those 300 pages to put proper answer keys. My vote is the latter.
Don't waste your money on this. Try Kokology books instead.
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