Free the Beagle: A Journey to Destinae [Paperback]

Roy H. Williams (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 16, 2002

A richly multifaceted tale overflowing with essential lessons for business and for life.

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Bard Press (September 16, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1885167571
• ISBN-13: 978-1885167576
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 6.5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.3 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,282,225 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #28 in Books > Books on Cassette > Business > Careers & Business Life

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A sure best-seller!, October 3, 2002

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Steve Sorensen (www.EverydayHunter.com) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Free the Beagle: A Journey to Destinae (Paperback)

You know it's buried somewhere in your brain - the creativity that you once had as a child, back before you obediently slipped your arms into the straitjacket of conformity that bound you tighter and tighter while the years sped by. If you could only find a way to liberate the creativity again!

Free the Beagle by Roy H. Williams points the way. It's an amazing allegory about you, your life, your responsibilities, and your relationships, and it has the power to teach you to see everything through new eyes. It's a can't-put-it-down book, a short novella that's both shallow enough for a child to wade in and deep enough for whale to swim in. It's about balancing your left brain (an order-seeking lawyer) and your right brain (a freedom-loving beagle) so that you can learn to access your creativity and be a more open, more productive and more positive human being. When you discover the principles in Free the Beagle, you've found the closest thing there is to operating instructions for your brain.

You'll read it quickly, and want to read it again. The style is spartan (though you might spot an extra adverb here and there), yet it is written in a way that the thinking reader will see layers of meaning begin to unfold. Few books with such an economy of words say so much.

Don't expect this to be another trite Who Moved My Cheese? But if you liked that book, you'll love Free the Beagle. If you hated Who Moved My Cheese? you'll especially love it. The time is right for Free the Beagle by Roy H. Williams, and the proof will be seen when it quickly becomes a best seller - one that people actually read! To top it off, an audio CD dramatization of the book is included in the miniscule price - so no one will have an excuse for not reading it.

Free the Beagle might be the best investment you'll make in a book this decade. Buy it now, and you'll be in-the-know when everyone is talking about it.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Modern Parable, October 7, 2002

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Don (SAN DIEGO, CA, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Free the Beagle: A Journey to Destinae (Paperback)

This is an amazingly insightful piece of work and a definite must read for today's (and tomorrow's) leaders. Every leader should study William's work as both a guideline to ethical behavior and a blueprint for success.

Williams has mastered the lost art of parable. Where most other author's merely take a simple idea and tell a story around it, Williams is incredibly good at creating a work that causes the reader to look at the worlds around and inside him or her self.

Every reader will take a different story away from Free the Beagle, but each reader will come away from the book with a new understanding of self and others.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Matrix meets Alice in Wonderland in the rabbit holes, December 23, 2002

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Dave Lakhani (Boise, ID United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Free the Beagle: A Journey to Destinae (Paperback)

I've never read a book before that made me interpret things in so many ways and at the end prove that I was right, along with about five other completely right interpretations, well, ok, I did read Alice in Wonderland and we have spent a couple of generations interpreting that.

The last chapter of the book alone, the roundtable discussion, will confirm your every fear . . . that you only had one or maybe two interpretations right.

Drop your leash and follow the Beagle and the Lawyer on their trip to Destinae and be amazed at where you end up, you may never be the same person who started the journey again!

P.S. I found a whole different dimension to this book when I read it out loud to someone, try it, you'll see what I mean. Try out pages 58, 59 and 107 just for fun!