Neo-Tech Discovery [Paperback]

Frank R. Wallace (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Neo Tech Pub (June 1981)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0911752358
• ISBN-13: 978-0911752359
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.2 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,446,308 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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18 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Has to be read to be believed, February 22, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Neo-Tech Discovery (Paperback)

A compendium of history and attitudes on how to get the mostfrom life. Frank R. Wallace, like other great thinkers before him(Freud and even Einstein come to mind) combines brilliant, unique insights with pure crap. I am 41 years old and have read thousands of books, and this one is, without exaggeration, the most powerful I have ever picked up. Wallace is an almost unbelievably charismatic writer, with ideas which nobody else has seemed to touch that ring true. It's hard to read it without ending up with at least some libertarian tendencies.

As to the brown matter, this book was first published in 1975 - 24 years ago - and there is simply no evidence or literature that suggests that "psychuous sex" as he explains it even exists. On the nature of homosexuality, and in some aspect of romantic attempts, he now seems less like a prophet than just badly dated. He also, in all his books, seems to write them in outline style, leaving it to the reader to devise nearly all specific methods of following his romantic, life, or poker tenets, sort of like a very high-level theory course. His latest forays into "Zonpower" and the like, available free on the Internet, take this to an extreme. The book crosses over into raving near the end, and he totally blew the review of Future Shock.

With that said, two-thirds of the book is material the likes of which you have simply never seen. If we can count just the good stuff, and it will be fairly easy for you to tell what that is, this book could be one of the best of the 20th century (!!!!).

As far as I can tell, this book has been pretty well ignored by history. He said it was "not a commercial success," and I haven't even heard of any other serious writer quoting his work or even debunking it. Did anyone ever debate him? Did anyone say this book was garbage and why? Did anyone ever communicate an opinion between loving him (which I gather a lot of people do) and detesting everything he has ever written (likewise)?

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars HONEST TO REALITY!, December 21, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Neo-Tech Discovery (Paperback)

I have read this book several times in the 5 years since I purchased it. I am still not cured of all the irrationality in my life, but at least now I have the knowledge to do what is logical and correct. REMEMBER THIS: LAZINESS & DISHONESTY are the cause of all evil in the world. From within & without! As a companion to this book I would recommend "THE ORIGIN OF CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE BREAKDOWN OF THE BICAMERAL MIND" by Julian Jaynes. Good luck to those of you who wish to make it thru these turbulent times ahead!

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Ultimate Self-Help Book, March 23, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Neo-Tech Discovery (Paperback)

I had read some Objectivist literature before reading Neo-Tech, and was intrigued. But I was dismayed at Rand's somewhat hostile statements regarding such topics as homosexuality and the possibility of a female president (she regarded the idea as ridiculous). Then I received an information package on Neo-Tech, and sent off for the book right away. When I first read the book, I knew I had found the ultimate self-help book. And it has none of Objectivism's cultish elements. Read it and live the good life!