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I like this book. The illustrations are simple, and the words are few, yet I thought about this book's parable to life for quite a while. It has a principle in it that seems to be missing from our society's current view on living happily. That principle is that we are each responsible for becoming what we need to become in order to go and do what we want to go and do. It's about a wedge who is stuck in the middle of nowhere hoping that a wheel with a missing piece will pick it up and whisk it off to happiness. I apply the principle in marriage, and I feel the book teaches powerfully that two married people can only achieve marvelous things together if they are happy and healthy people on their own first. I own this book, it reminds me that rather than sit around complaining that my wife isn't meeting my "needs", that it is really up to me to do what it takes to become happy and healthy myself, so that I can share my strength and happiness and good times with her.Read full review
This book is very inspiring. A great tale. I love the simplicity of it. DEFINITELY recommended. I love Shel Silverstein's writing style. The stories are great if you read them when you are young, but mean something completely deeper to you when you are older