Simon & Schuster’s Atria Books is counting on solid sales for Rhonda Byrne’s THE POWER as noted yesterday, but with today’s release media skepticism about the book’s message is rising. USA Today takes an unusually aggressive position for the paper, with Deirde Donahue deriding Byrne’s “crackpot theories about finance.” Calling the book “a novel solution to our money woes,” the basic message, as Byrne writes, is that “it’s the attractive force of love that moves all the money in the world, and whoever is giving love by feeling good is a magnet for money.” Donahue cites “creepy element[s]” that include […]
