Very informative for writers, though it's probably not recommended for those who are not familiar with mythology. I attended a class in college, so that little bit of background helped in keeping Moyer and Campbell's discussion organized and simpler to understand. It could be a little easy to get lost in their heavy analysis of society, the hero's journey, symbolism, etc. What they shared is very valuable, however, half way through I felt like the same points were being made repeatedly. Some of it was a little tedious to read questions and answers offer the same insight but phrased differently over and over again.

I thought the first chapter with Deepak Chopra offered a lot of insight into how we think and how we get wrapped up in our thoughts, our predictions to others, and how we based our decisions. He gives us some great insight on how to develop way to calm ourselves and lessen the effect our thoughts have on us, and how it can take us on negatively. However, for those who do not read a lot on spirituality, consciousness, etc...Chopra's writing might go over some readers head - at some points it did to mine!
Moving into the second chapter written by Debbie Ford, I felt the content fell a little short. She didn't really explain too much new information on how we fall for our negativity/negative parts of ourselves. I felt her prose fell into a loop of information of how people can live by listening to the skeptical/fearful/jealous parts of ourselves. I sorta felt like I could do a shot-game to how many times 'shadow' appeared within the text, and I would have been smashed by page 5....
I stuck with it until the last section which was written by Marianne Williamson. The last chapter brought together a loving culmination of both chapters, and how living with love for others is the most hopeful, positive way to live. I particularly enjoyed her conversational tone, which might be something readers feel is missing from the first chapter. I also liked her ability to explain how easy we can go into judgmental/sarcastic/skeptical mode because at one point love has been withheld or torn away from us, and going into a mental attack mode, is a reflex rather than offering up more compassion or love.

I’ve never read a more convoluted story without a rewarding finale than divergent series

What the hell. The only rewarding aspect was Tris and Four (and Peter) and then Allegiant happened. I even understand the choices Roth made about making decisions as a grown up, sacrificing for love, etc. But wouldn’t the better thing had been for her to grow up and be an adult; she was so mindnumbingly controlled by society’s expectations, to defy them and help others defy the government would’ve made the series worth more as a reader. Yes she sacrificed herself but that’s not the same as being there to help society rebuild. The memory innoculation is going to wipe out people’s memories anyways, so how is she going to be remembered other than Four.

If Roth really wanted to prove herself as a writer, it would’ve been even better if Peter didn’t take the memory serum. He committed so many horrible acts he was so confused over who he truly was; it would’ve been better that in the name of Tris’ memory he didn’t erase what he had done and tried to be a better person….

The ending to the series is so unsatisfying; how could these three books that are really mediocre become a phenomenon and there’s not even a cartharsis to all the madness. All of the personalities ran together even though they were structured to represent very different virtues. The writing had so much cliche dialogue and descriptions. A society blames people with bad genes to structure cities to create gene-specific types only to have the Divergent released upon society “at the right time”. The plot was so convoluted racing around these different serums that didn’t even matter in the end.
I mean, I wasn’t even a big fan of the books. I only read them because I wanted to see what they were about - and then Shailene Woodley is an amazing human being, her chemistry with Theo is so on point with the characters, and the adaptation ended up being good….And, now what is any of this series worth?

I don't think I ever read a book faster than John Green's The Fault In Our Stars. Every word on the last page intrigued me to read the following words on the next page. Hazel and Augusts' voices were original, frank, honest, sincere, humorous, and a bit heartbreaking. I never believed that so much intimate details and perspectives about life, love, and death could be shared in such a moving book. I can't remember the last time I read a book that was truly amazing (though I really loved Cinder by Marissa Meyers which I recently read...)

It is easily and most definitely one of my favorite books of all time. I'm sorry this is not much of a coherent review, but I feel there are some books you could advise others to read and make sure that they do. Go with all the positive reviews on GoodReads, Amazon, book blogs, etc. and take a leap into the literature unknown and just read The Fault in our Stars. Okay? Okay.