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What Your Face Reveals: Chinese Secrets of Face Reading

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I read and collect books on this subject. This book is one of my favorites. I find many facets of Chinese culture interesting and thought provoking. Inside this book I have found other subjects that I have enjoyed reading up on and exploring. It is well written and very interesting and laid out well. And I have learned much more about myself than I would have guessed when I started reading this book.

This is a pretty comprehensive, introductory book about face reading. If you're interested in this subject, it's a book you may want to consider getting. It has good illustrations and I can't imagine anywhere else you would be able to learn about this (except experts or other books). Of course, the question is whether face reading provides accurate information or not. You'll have to be the judge of that.

This is a wonderful and excellent book to have for anyone who wants to know others better and deeper in a readily way, by just looking at the other's face. By reading this book thoroughly, you can read a person like a book without his or her knowing it. A great asset in life, indeed, it can save you a lot of time, money and trouble if that person has special relation --be it romantic, businesswise, or workwise--with you. Meanwhile, it is very interesting and revealing.

This is the second such book I have bought on the subject of Face Reading. The illustrations were difficult to follow and it's tough for the reader to develop a "user friendly" guide after completion. Rather, I suggest that you try "The Naked Face" by Young, which was far easier to interpret. Sure, if one were a practioner for 2 decades, then they could decipher the illustrations, but the learning curve was rather steep. Give the other book a glance, that's my opinion.

This book is written from a very traditional approach and filled with Chinese culture myths, mainly base on divination rather than in personality. I felt there was no hope if you had an un-auspicious feature and that is very wrong, as our face is always changing depending on your thoughts and emotions. I particularly dislike the way to interpret a women face based on traditional thinking that I found not matching occidental believes and lifestyles. The illustrations are hard to interpret even for professionals and they also too focused on the fate than into the personality.
I felt the book made no sense to help beginners to give an accurate simple reading, face reading is so powerful when used correctly and I felt there were too many opportunities to misuse the face reading making inaccurate judments.
I personally would recommend Facial Diagnosis in Chinese medicine from Lillian Bridges

I bought 5 other facereading books. The depth of this book is the best. I also bought another book from the same author about Feng Shui... again, very informative.

Although not a definative guide or a piece of work that has exhausted the subject, Lin gives the reader a good foundation in the philosophy and workings of face and body reading.

I can honestly say that I enjoyed reading this book even though at times the diagrams were a bit confusing! The information and style that this book is written in is very easy to read and comprehend.

Recommended with reservation.

This is a very good book if you are interested in face reading. It holds a lot of interesting information and detail about the face, eyes, nose, eyebrows, lips, etc. The reason why I didn't rate it as 5 stars is because the illustrations look the same to me and its really hard to tell the difference between certain shapes. More realistic pictures instead of drawings would do the trick.

Nothing new here and I don't think there is any substantial research to back up the concept. It is mostly wishful thinking, creative fiction and hokem. Pretty much a waste of time.