The Noticer: Sometimes, all a person needs is a little perspective.
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- ISBN13: 9780785229216
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- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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A new tale of common wisdom from the bestselling leader of The Traveler’s Gift.
Orange Beach, Alabama is a simple town filled with simple people. But like all humans on the planet, the excellent folks of Orange Beach have their share of problems – marriages teetering on the brink of divorce, young adults giving up on life, business people on the verge of bankruptcy, as well as the many additional obstacles that life seems to dish out to the masses.
Fortunately, when things look the darkest – a mysterious man named Jones has a miraculous way of showing up. An elderly man with white hair, of indiscriminate age and race, wearing blue jeans, a white T-shirt and leather flip flops carrying a battered ancient suitcase, Jones is a unique soul. Communicating what he calls “a small perspective,” Jones clarifies that he has been agreed a gift of noticing things that others miss. “Your time on this planet is a gift to be used wisely,” he says. “Don’t squander your words or your thoughts. Consider even the simplest action you take, for your lives matter beyond measure…and they matter forever.”
Jones speaks to that part in everyone that is yearning to know why things take place and what we can do about it.
Like The Traveler’s Gift, The Noticer is a unique narrative is a blend of fiction, allegory, and inspiration. Gifted storyteller Andy Andrews helps us see how apt a “noticer” just might change a person’s life forever.
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This book is published under the auspices of being a Christian life book and it is published by Thomas Nelson, a Christian Publisher. But, this book has nothing to do with God! If I could give it 0 stars, I would. I worry about how this book will affect what people reflect and what they will judge because of it. The premise of this book is that perspective is everything: essentially, what you reflect you will become. This is the theology that is preached by Joyce Meyers and Joel Osteen. It is also the theology that Hank Hanegraaf disects in detail as unbiblical in the updated version of Christianity in Crisis.
There is a belief out there called the health and wealth gospel–essentially that if we do what God wants us to, then we are promised a pleased and excellent life–in fact, the very life we want. Nowhere in the Bible is such a promise made! In fact, Christ says this life is not going to be simple. And Sheila Walsh aptly puts it in her book Let Go that with Christ, life isn’t going to be simple, but it will be simpler–because we will know that Christ is going to walk through the trials with us and give us the might we need when we seek Him.
This book is written as a novel proposed to share theology and thoughts through a tale. It is not a “how to” book. But, basically, I would not recommend it. There are far better books to spend your time reading that are sound in their theology and that will encourage you in your walk with the Lord. This one won’t. It will encourage you to walk through your life lacking God in the picture and encourage you that you can do it on your own.
I will mention that not only do I disagree with the thoughts in this book, but it is poorly written. It is choppy and disjointed in the writing. It is hard to get a picture of what is going on in the tale at times.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
When Thomas Nelson Book Review Bloggers got ahold of all their reviewers to give them an opportunity to get review a book even if they already had one out to review, I was interested. What can I say? I’m a book lover.
The Noticer sounded like a very appealing book. I was keen to receive it and dig right in. The book starts off with a man, Andy, who lives under a pier and helps himself to people’s garages, if they place them open, on cold nights. Jones is The Noticer. The one who gives others a small perspective. Sounds appealing, right?
Yeah. That’s what I thought too.
Andy has a small resentment towards God for putting him under a pier. Jones, in the attempt to give him some perspective, assures Andy he’s ‘not selling anything’ … and gives him three books to read. Books about additional people.
When Jones ongoing telling Andy that pleased, enthusiastic, positive people are the ones people like to hang around and that one’s opportunities and encouragement come from people, so to get opportunities and encouragement one has to be positive, pleased, and enthusiastic otherwise people won’t want to hang around you and things will get worse and worse …. I just couldn’t read any more.
Flipping through the book to see if maybe I had misunderstood some of the message being passed along, I see middle through, the Lord is mentioned again. In a one-sentence prayer that wasn’t even serious. Factually, Jones was teasing when he said it. No additional mention of the Lord. LOTS of past facts (persons were the books Jones were passing along), but not the ONE who truly matters.
Now I’m sure this book will get RAVE reviews. Afterall, this sort of thing is hugely well loved right now (just look at the likes of Joel Osteen), but not in our house. All of our opportunities come from HIM, not people. All our encouragement and ANYTHING excellent comes from HIM, not people. Sure, people may be the vessels He chooses to use to get the message across …. but ultimately, HE is the source. And a book that says otherwise — even if it may seem harmless to some — I just can’t tolerate having having around me.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
This book presents excellent by very simplistic advice in a very juvenile tale. It’s more of a fairy tale than a self-help book.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
“The Noticer: Sometimes, all a person needs is a small perspective noticer” by Andy Andrews is a newly published book (April 2009) by Thomas Nelson Publishers. This tale revolves around a mysterious ancient man named “Jones” who visits in a simple town, Orange Beach, Alabama. He mysteriously appears in people’s lives, at the right time – usually when their world seems to be crashing around them. He gives what he calls, “a small perspective”. This is how Jones clarifies himself:
“I am a noticer,” he said. It is my gift. While others may be able to sing or run quick, I notice thats that additional people overlook. . . . I notice things about situations and people that produce perspective. That’s what most folks lack – perspective – a broader view. So I give them that broader view . . . and it allows them to regroup, take a breath, and start their lives again.”
This 156 page book is a quick reading book, with a nice tale, but it lacks a Biblical perspective – it lacks God. Being it is published by Thomas Nelson publishers and is labeled as a “self-help/personal growth” book, I expected depth, from a Biblical viewpoint, and this was not a basis of The Noticer. It is a power of “perspective” and personal achievements that people are building changes in their lives rather than dependence and life changes through God. There is the passing mention of prayer and faith, yet no leading to what this faith is.
If you are looking for a quick reading book, something to “self-help” yourself lacking God, then a person may make personal changes in his/her life. But it all comes down to what the foundation is. Is it you? Is it based on a person? Or is it God?
I give this book a 2 out of 5.
I do many book reviews and rarely do I place a negative review. This is my first review as a Thomas Nelson Book Review Blogger and appreciate this opportunity.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
This book is mush – that’s the bottom line.
If you delight in collecting clever one-liners about how to make it in life, The Noticer might be a gold mine. But if you’re looking for excellent writing and a fantastic tale, look somewhere else.
The Noticer opens with a chapter about Andrews himself (although it takes a while to figure this out) as a young man–bereft of both parents, homeless, sleeping under a pier or in a name’s garage. An nearly angelic ancient guy called Jones shows up to talk with him and help him see his life from a different perspective (perspective being what Jones says can change our lives).
Then it’s chapter after chapter of the same thing: Jones showing up at just the right moment to talk–at part–with somebody else in distress in Orange Beach, Alabama. Until–surprise!–at the end of the book Jones mysteriously disappears, and everyone who knew him is–surprise!–very sad but grateful for the wisdom he spoke into their lives.
How we reflect does affect our lives. And most of the perspective doled out in The Noticer lines up with biblical truth. But readers who don’t know that when they start the book won’t know it when they’re finished either. They’ll just reflect it’s warm, fuzzy, and “spiritual.” Jones talks about the best being yet to come, after all.
Oh, I know–maybe a name will question what they reflect about the book. As they chat about it with a caring friend, then they’ll figure out that the God of the Bible is the one to go to for advice.
Maybe.
I know I’ll be in the minority on this one. I wish I could embrace the book as a sensation. But I’m saddened when the Savior is left out of things and when less-than-average work gets five-star hype.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5