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41st out of 269 books
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The Noticer: Sometimes, All a Person Needs Is a Little Perspective.
by
Andy Andrews (Goodreads Author)
A new story of common wisdom from the bestselling author of "The Traveler's Gift."
Orange Beach, Alabama is a simple town filled with simple people. But like all humans on the planet, the good folks of Orange Beach have their share of problems - marriages teetering on the brink of divorce, young adults giving up on life, business people on the verge of bankruptcy, as well a...more
Orange Beach, Alabama is a simple town filled with simple people. But like all humans on the planet, the good folks of Orange Beach have their share of problems - marriages teetering on the brink of divorce, young adults giving up on life, business people on the verge of bankruptcy, as well a...more
Hardcover, 167 pages
Published
April 28th 2009
by Thomas Nelson Publishers
(first published April 16th 2009)
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“The Noticer” by Andy Andrews, is a pleasant surprise of a read. The book illustrates a short story with a powerful punch; a story that I don’t want to spoil for any readers of this review. I’ll tell you this though, my husband and I participate in a highway clean up project sponsored by our township and when we first started he insisted that we pick up cans on the same side of the street and then pick up cans on the other side during the walk back, otherwise there would not be any cans for us t...more
I really enjoyed this little 156-page book. Judging from the title, I first thought the book would be about "people-watchers" -- you know, those folks who like to sit in the mall and study people as they walk by. After the first page or so, I realized that the central character, "Jones" -- "not Mr. Jones, just Jones" -- is The Noticer. Jones has a knack for being at the right place at the right time and say the right things to those who need help the most. Jones would notice things, point out hi...more
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Good story, makes great points but gets a bit too redundant.
I loved Andy Andrews's The Traveler's Gift. I had no idea what was around the corner, and I know I am not reading page-turner fiction here but still, I wanted this book to have that quality so I can stay with it. I love Andrews's style of telling stories and making a great point or two across. Jones is a good strong character and I like the concept of PERSPECTIVE - yes, everything is indeed about perspective, no doubt about it - and the...more
I loved Andy Andrews's The Traveler's Gift. I had no idea what was around the corner, and I know I am not reading page-turner fiction here but still, I wanted this book to have that quality so I can stay with it. I love Andrews's style of telling stories and making a great point or two across. Jones is a good strong character and I like the concept of PERSPECTIVE - yes, everything is indeed about perspective, no doubt about it - and the...more
I have just finished The Noticer: Sometimes, all a person needs is a little perspective. When I began this book, it reminded me of The Five People You Meet in Heaven in that it's a series of chapters, each about meeting a different person.
An old guy ("Jones") shows up around town, meeting people at pivotal periods and giving them just the advice they need to turn their life around. One of Jones's favorite sayings is "You lack perspective," and he does have a knack of saying the right thing at th...more
An old guy ("Jones") shows up around town, meeting people at pivotal periods and giving them just the advice they need to turn their life around. One of Jones's favorite sayings is "You lack perspective," and he does have a knack of saying the right thing at th...more
"... Waktu kalian di bumi ini adalah anugerah yang harus digunakan dengan bijak. Jangan menghambur-hamburkan kata-kata atau pemikiran kalian. Pikirkan bahwa tindakan paling sederhana yang kalian ambil dalam kehidupan kalian pun sangat berarti tidak terkira dan berarti selamanya.
Aku tidak yakin kalian akan melihatku lagi, di sini, di tempat ini, tapi percayalah bahwa benih yang sudah aku tanam dalam pikiran dan hati kalian sudah cukup untuk membawa kalian maju. Yang kumaksud adalah benih perspekt...more
Aku tidak yakin kalian akan melihatku lagi, di sini, di tempat ini, tapi percayalah bahwa benih yang sudah aku tanam dalam pikiran dan hati kalian sudah cukup untuk membawa kalian maju. Yang kumaksud adalah benih perspekt...more
Amazing. The work of Andy Andrews in telling another wonderful yet true story has inspired many more people. This novel is partly on the life of Andy Andrews but mostly on the last days that Orange County, Alabama sees Jones. Jones, not Mr. Jones, is a mysterious man that “notices things,” as he says. He helps people look at their life and other things in a different perspective.
The story starts out with Andy crying under the pier, which is currently his home. Jones finds him and encourages/an...more
The story starts out with Andy crying under the pier, which is currently his home. Jones finds him and encourages/an...more
Book title: The Noticer
Author: Andy Andrews
Nashville, Thomas Nelson, 2009
Number of pages: including reader’s guide, 167
Your current situation is not the problem. The problem is that you need perspective. Jones, Andy Andrews’ main character has a gift of making unique observations about people and then helping them make the adjustments necessary to get back on track. For the man fearful about his impending death, he needed to learn that the best was yet to come. For the man so driven to succeed...more
Author: Andy Andrews
Nashville, Thomas Nelson, 2009
Number of pages: including reader’s guide, 167
Your current situation is not the problem. The problem is that you need perspective. Jones, Andy Andrews’ main character has a gift of making unique observations about people and then helping them make the adjustments necessary to get back on track. For the man fearful about his impending death, he needed to learn that the best was yet to come. For the man so driven to succeed...more
Andy Andrews, author of The Traveler’s Gift, has created another beautiful and challenging story. The Noticer is the story of a town that becomes influenced and changed by the wisdom of an older man named Jones. Jones is a drifter with perspective, a person who can offer insight to those around him and influence them for the better. Whether it’s a down and out homeless man living under a bridge, or a suburban couple on the brink of divorce, Jones enables them to look at their circumstances from...more
This little book The Noticer by Andy Andrews just 156 pages has a powerful message to it. In the book,Mr. Andrews is trying to show how easy it is to let the little things in life are basic principles be missed and how someone else’s perspective came make things come out in a different light. “Jones” is The Noticer. He is a mysterious old man who comes and goes in the peoples’ lives only appearing at times to give his sage advice. I wondered as I was reading if it was a pawn off the fact that Jo...more
I got this book as a birthday gifr from one of my best friends and I thought that it was going to be a good one. I could only read like one fourth of the book when I got really bored and annoyed by all the nonsense it was written. I really cannot understand this thing - a lot of such books go all over the stores and suddenly they are on all "necessarily to read ' books. One man giving so "deep and profound" advices to people who currently have lost the idea of living. I don't even rate negative...more
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Way too self-help for me and the writing was nothing special, but there were some definite gems within the book that I think back to sometimes. This is the primary one (so now you can move onto another book without hesitation.. sorry Andy Andrews). I'm going to just paraphrase the concept:
In the same way that Americans and Scots both speak English but may as well be speaking different languages, there are different dialects to the language of love. People sometimes come across difficulties in th...more
In the same way that Americans and Scots both speak English but may as well be speaking different languages, there are different dialects to the language of love. People sometimes come across difficulties in th...more
I picked up this book thinking it was going to be a bit about slowing down and 'noticing' things to improve my personal perspective on things. By the middle of the book, my perspective on "The Noticer" was dim. In the last chapter, I was throwing the book across the room, scrunching my hair thinking "I could've done this." It was a more than disappointing read.
Andy Andrews has an inviting writing style, more like listening to an old friend (albeit sometimes a know it all, annoying friend), but I...more
Andy Andrews has an inviting writing style, more like listening to an old friend (albeit sometimes a know it all, annoying friend), but I...more
This book is yet another example of how my life is constantly interrupted by the subtle whispers of someone wiser… i’ve mentioned before that the media that i engage in often speaks directly into the situations that surround my life and The Noticer proves this once again… of course, in this particular instance, the book speaks directly to a much larger audience than just me…
we are currently living in what i call a “chicken little era”… everywhere i turn, i’m faced with one more thing that should...more
we are currently living in what i call a “chicken little era”… everywhere i turn, i’m faced with one more thing that should...more
DO YOU SEE WHAT I SEE?
BOOK REVIEW BY JO RAE JOHNSON
From a distance you may think that Jones is a homeless man, alone with no family, and only a small suitcase of belongings. Move closer and Jones would tell you he’s a man with a wealth of places to stay, friends who love him like family, and possessions meant to be shared. Jones would say you might need to change your perspective.
Andy Andrews introduces us to Jones in his latest book, The Noticer. Andy is living under a pier and has no job, v...more
BOOK REVIEW BY JO RAE JOHNSON
From a distance you may think that Jones is a homeless man, alone with no family, and only a small suitcase of belongings. Move closer and Jones would tell you he’s a man with a wealth of places to stay, friends who love him like family, and possessions meant to be shared. Jones would say you might need to change your perspective.
Andy Andrews introduces us to Jones in his latest book, The Noticer. Andy is living under a pier and has no job, v...more
The story takes place in Orange Beach, Alabama. Jones is a mysterious old man who appears and disappears through the years giving the townspeople some sage advice. Jones has a miraculous way of communicating what he calls “a little perspective,” Jones explains that he has been given a gift of noticing things that others miss. He sheds light on the issues that most people face one time or another in their lives. Divorce, getting old, taking shortcuts and redefining your life. "Jones," helped the...more
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I'm going to go against popular opinion and state that this wasn't a very good book. Sure, there were a few good life lessons included in its pages. However, the writing was mediocre and the story telling was terrible. The characters were unbelievable, both in dialogue and action. I was surprised that the characters didn't punch Jones for delivering these messages that go against the grain of their lives. While the messages were good ones, it was unbelievable that people would accept these messa...more
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My first reaction was that I liked this book. The readability was set at a nice pace to be read in just a few evenings. I don't like slow starters and this definitely had me from the beginning. I was intrigued why a guy would be living under a pier and how a random old man could change his life by asking him “What is it about me that people would change if they could?”.
As much as I liked the book, it didn't really work for me because of the lack of scriptural context. There were many inspiration...more
As much as I liked the book, it didn't really work for me because of the lack of scriptural context. There were many inspiration...more
Maybe this book just wasn’t my thing, but I found it to be an incredibly simplistic, thinly veiled rip-off of books like The 5 People You Meet In Heaven (which I wasn’t so fond of either). The book is basically a collection of scenes / stories that involve the mysterious character “Jones” – The Noticer – visiting people at different times in their lives when they are experiencing difficulties of one sort or another to help them “step into the light” and get on the right path.
This, Jones makes it...more
This, Jones makes it...more
Berkisah tentang seorang laki-laki tua bernama Jones. Bisa dibilang ia adalah seorang 'noticer'. Berkelana di daerah Orange Beach dan membuat banyak perubahan terhadap orang yang patah semangat, pasangan yang hendak bercerai, anak mudah yang ragu akan masa depannya. Padahal yang dilakukannya hanya membuat penduduk Orange Beach membuka hati dan mengubah perspektif. Karena kadang, untuk menciptakan perubahan kita hanya perlu mengubah perspektif.
Bab ketiga buku ini mengajarkan kita untuk senantiasa...more
Bab ketiga buku ini mengajarkan kita untuk senantiasa...more
This is the first book I have read by author Andy Andrews and it will NOT be the last! I picked up this book free through Thomas Nelson's Book Review Blogger Club (well I actually downloaded it onto my Sony e-Book Reader). I was kind of hesitant to read it as I had not read anything by Andy Andrews, but once I picked it up I could not put it down. Andy is a great author and this book was an easy read. It was a shorter book (only 176 pages) but had a lot of good content and some great life lesson...more
A moving story of common wisdom from the bestselling author of The Traveler’s Gift.
Orange Beach, Alabama is a simple town filled with simple people. But they all have their share of problems – marriages teetering on the brink of divorce, young adults giving up on life, business people on the verge of bankruptcy, and many of the other obstacles that life seems to dish out to the masses.
Fortunately, when things look the darkest – a mysterious old man named Jones has a miraculous way of showing up....more
Orange Beach, Alabama is a simple town filled with simple people. But they all have their share of problems – marriages teetering on the brink of divorce, young adults giving up on life, business people on the verge of bankruptcy, and many of the other obstacles that life seems to dish out to the masses.
Fortunately, when things look the darkest – a mysterious old man named Jones has a miraculous way of showing up....more
The Noticer by Andy Andrews is 156 pages of important life lessons wrapped within a feel-good, inspirational novelette. The lessons are thinly-veiled homilies spoken by the main character Jones to a cast of (unfortunately) flat, characters who barely resemble real people with real dialogue. Still, the book’s lessons and overall message are positive, and Christian — without mentioning God too often. The book will appeal to mothers, grandmothers, fans of inspirational literature, and anyone who en...more
Nov 03, 2009
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A mysterious old man, who calls himself "Jones, not Mr. Jones, just Jones", has a very unique habit of showing up in people's lives just when things look their worst. He is a beautiful old soul, with bright blue eyes and shocking white hair, who never seems to age. He wears jeans, a tee shirt, sandals and carries an old suitcase that he never opens wide enough for anyone to see inside. Jones easily befriends others and shares his gift of being a "Noticer". He sees what others miss, and helps by...more
"When you focus on the things you need,” he went on to
explain, “you’ll find those needs increasing. If you concentrate
your thoughts on what you don’t have, you will soon be concentrating
on other things that you had forgotten you don’t
have—and feel worse! If you set your mind on loss, you are more
likely to lose . . . But a grateful perspective brings happiness and
abundance into a person’s life.” Jones from The Noticer by Andy Andrews.
The Noticer is a book that is a fiction book filled with the ri...more
explain, “you’ll find those needs increasing. If you concentrate
your thoughts on what you don’t have, you will soon be concentrating
on other things that you had forgotten you don’t
have—and feel worse! If you set your mind on loss, you are more
likely to lose . . . But a grateful perspective brings happiness and
abundance into a person’s life.” Jones from The Noticer by Andy Andrews.
The Noticer is a book that is a fiction book filled with the ri...more
The Noticer is an interesting book about a man named Jones. Jones is an older man who has a remarkable gift, the gift of perception. He is able to perceive things that most others are not able to see. He is a homeless drifter who has an uncanny ability to meet people in their most desperate of times. The author of the book, Andy Andrews, tells of when he was a homeless teenager living under a pier, with both parents dead and with no family or friends. One night, an old man named Jones finds him...more
I was given an opportunity to review this book as part of Thomas Nelson's Book Review Blogger Program, of which I'm a member.
The book centers around a man named "Jones" who steps in and out of people's lives, encouraging them to notice the positive and to make changes in their lives. These stories are miracle stories; marriages are saved, lives changed, businesses created, children inspired.
Here were my favorite quotes:
"Think with me here...everybody wants to be on the mountaintop, but if you'...more
The book centers around a man named "Jones" who steps in and out of people's lives, encouraging them to notice the positive and to make changes in their lives. These stories are miracle stories; marriages are saved, lives changed, businesses created, children inspired.
Here were my favorite quotes:
"Think with me here...everybody wants to be on the mountaintop, but if you'...more
First of all, I would like to say that had I been consulted, I would have named this book “Perspective” or “Jones” or well almost anything besides “The Noticer.”
Ahem.
This book bills itself as ‘a moving story of common wisdom” and while the common wisdom part is correct, there wasn’t that much of a story involved.
Let me break it down. There is a guardian angel named Jones (or Garcia or Chen depending on what nationality you happen to be) who dispenses much needed wisdom and perspective to the in...more
Ahem.
This book bills itself as ‘a moving story of common wisdom” and while the common wisdom part is correct, there wasn’t that much of a story involved.
Let me break it down. There is a guardian angel named Jones (or Garcia or Chen depending on what nationality you happen to be) who dispenses much needed wisdom and perspective to the in...more
The Noticer is the story of Jones and his effect on the residents of Orange Beach, Alabama. Jones is an old man who does not seem to age or change his clothes. Over several years he appears in town to give people in crisis new perspectives on their lives, helping them find purpose and make changes to improve themselves. Jones is an enigma: no one knows were he lives, how he supports himself, or what is in the suitcase he always carries. He is a Christ-like figure who is known as Garcia to Hispan...more
I normally don't read much "self-help" or "personal growth" books, as I tend to find that they normally just repeat the same advice as the others, all the while sounding as though they've discovered some new secret to magically solve our problems instantly. "The Noticer" attempts to break that mold, and while it did cause me to pause and reflect momentarily, in the end, it amounted to a nice read that left me feeling as though something was still missing.
The book centers on an old man named Jone...more
The book centers on an old man named Jone...more
Jones is a somewhat mysterious drifter who, carrying only a suitcase, always seems to know when a person needs him and where he can find them. Jones is, as he claims, a “Noticer” in that he notices things around that other people often miss. He has an uncanny ability to see into a person to tell what their problems are and how best to help each person gain a new ‘perspective’ on their situation. That is Jones’ key word: perspective. To him, a situation can be changed just by altering ones percep...more
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~ Hailed by a New York Times writer as a "modern-day Will Rogers who has quietly become one of the most influential people in America."
~ Spoken at the request of four different U.S. Presidents
~ Every single minute a book by Andy Andrews is sold somewhere in the world!
~ New York Times Bestselling Author of The Noticer and The Traveler's Gift
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~ Spoken at the request of four different U.S. Presidents
~ Every single minute a book by Andy Andrews is sold somewhere in the world!
~ New York Times Bestselling Author of The Noticer and The Traveler's Gift
Source:
http://www.andyandrews.com/
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