Reviews for Visionary physics

The average rating for Visionary physics based on 2 reviews is 2.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2008-10-08 00:00:00 Curtis Golladay What a huge letdown! Totally overrated. This subject truly fascinates me, but the author merely builds on the research of others and pads it with quotes from popular literature, poetry and song lyrics, as though that proves a point. If you take out all those quotes it's probably half as thick. It's like she just googled "Love" and included every quote she could find. Reads like a so-so undergrad paper. The only thing the author herself actually brings to the table is the notion that certain neurotransmitters may play a role the body's chemistry during times of heightened emotion, and that's still based on the research of others and is in no way a new theory. Also unsettling is her complete failure to acknowledge the late Dorothy Tennov who practically invented the investigative study of romantic love. She clearly references Tennov's work yet does not go so far as to name her. But this Helen Fisher is the talking head we get whenever the media wants an expert on the subject. Read Stendhal's "Love" and Tennov's "Love and Limerence"... Helen Fisher is a snake.

Review # 2 was written on 2010-12-18 00:00:00 Michael Schoen I love this book. It provided me with all the hidden secretes there is to love. Once finished with this book I no longer feel dumbfounded about mine or other people's actions when it comes to romance, lust, commitment and passion. I recommend that everyone reads this book because love is a complex system and Helen Fisher does an amazing job in making it clear that love is not something to fear even when everything doesn't seem to be working out because love is about an individual's personal growth in life and that is something that is always successful.