Roy Feinson
C/O St. Martin's Press
175 Fifth Avenue
New York N.Y. 10010
E-mail:
UsAnimals@aol.com
The author studied Biology and Zoology in South
Africa and put his computer programming skills to work in developing the Animal
in You personality test. His latest book,
A friend and I were at the bookstore and decided to take the personality test. She found her personality quickly (mountain goat) but I had much more difficulty. I was VERY honest on the test but when I looked up the choices for those numbers none of them were quite right.
I then figured out why.
I am in the process of losing weight and descibed myself as above average
or large (whatever the 3rd one was) None of those animals hit on my personality
- even my friend said so. So when I changed the first answer to "average"
weight (which is where I'm headed), the animal that came up was Baboon-which
was VERY close to
my
personality. So, perhaps the thinner person inside is who I really
am, not what is present now on the outside. Has this happened to anyone
else??
Mary K. Roanoke, VA
Amazing! I knew I felt kindred spirits in the
monkey house, but I never knew why. Even though I am not a vegetarian,
per se, I have always enjoyed all forms of vegetables and fruits, rather
than meats. And a treehouse as a child was my favorite haunt.
As you see, I am a gorilla simil-animal.
My significant other is also the same. His ideas
and mine often mesh, although we tend to differ at times, which is good
for playful debate. I have also noticed that gorillas are playful
and mimicful and that seems to be characteristics of both of us as well.
It's fascinating... thank you very much.
Oh great. I'm a baboon! Interesting book. We
had a great time testing everyone. While almost everyone agreed with their
animal personality, only my weasel brother-in-law had any objections.
Janice T. Pueblo, Colorado
INSIGHTFUL! The Animal in You is a refreshing and delightfully
entertaining journey into understanding your own and others' personalities.
The book provides a brief intruiging self diagnostic test and then applies
animal behavioral typology to identify and describe your specific animal
personality. This light and rather whimsical approach to personality theory
provides a fresh look at human interaction that is filled with creative
insight into how we relate to each other as "social animals." In short,
The Animal in You is a MUST read and is far more fun and revealing than
an astrological forecast -- this "wolf" loved it!
tpalmer@chrm.com Los Angeles, California
This book had us laughing (and bickering) like Hyenas
This book is two-thirds pure entertainment and one-third insightful social
commentary. Author Feinson's premise is that human culture is populated
in much the same way that the animal kingdom is laid out. That is, humans
mimic the predator and prey relationships of the other members of the animal
kingdom in both proportion and passion. Thus we end up with large proportions
of human counterparts of sheep, deer, and cottontails (prey), and relatively
few examples of lions, wolves and crocodiles (predators).
Blending the selfish allure of the daily horoscope
with the voyeuristic pleasures of watching animal courtship on a nature
show, "The Animal in You" offers a chance to "discover your true animal
type and unlock the secrets of your personality." By means of a short and
easy self-test, and a somewhat intimidating, but obviously thorough, eighty-some
pages of tables, you can quickly find out if you're an owl or a dolphin,
a weasel or an elephant. Each animal personality offers a brief overview
of the genuine animal, it's human counterpart, and short sections on careers,
relationships, advice and a few amusing examples of celebrity examples.
It's no stretch to learn that Liberace was a peacock, Woody Allen a snake,
and Michael Jordan a giraffe.
A great casual coffee table book to leave out at parties,
"The Animal in You" might have been better served being published in hardcover
- after only two weeks on my desk at the office, it's cover is "dog-eared"
and the test-page covered in "hen-scratches". This book serves as a reminder
of our inextricable link to our animal brothers and sisters and offers
the reader an entertaining and often surprisingly revealing glimpse into
our own "nature".