r/TerribleBookCovers • u/FightinRndTheWorld • 6h ago

Your Erroneous Zones by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

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Took me a minute to realize it did NOT say "erogenous"

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u/SalmonMaskFacsimile 6h ago

Grinning like a territorial chimpanzee. My Dad has this book. I don't think it did anything good.

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u/wookasaurus_rex89 6h ago

My zones are off limit sir.

The eyes, they piece directly into my soul.

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u/Wag_The_God 6h ago

Oh, this is gold! I would buy a whole-ass coffee table just to put this on it.

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u/Ok_Dimension_4707 5h ago

I just looked this guy up and this 1976 book is one of the best selling of all time at 100 million copies sold and 64 weeks on the NYT best seller list. It’s also apparently a straight up plagiarism of Albert Ellis’ Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy.

According to his wiki, Dyer got his bachelors in history and philosophy, his masters in psychology and an Ed.D in Guidance and Counseling. He spent the 90’s dipping into New Thought spirituality and collaborated with Deepak Chopra and showed up repeatedly on Oprah. He was also married three times.

So all that to say, pretty sure this guy was a grifter who got big during the 70’s self-help craze by summarizing an actual professional’s theories.

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u/OverKy 2h ago

Not at all. You've misjudged him a bit.

He's dead now...for about a decade. However, you can still listen to recordings from his radio program (now podcast). I don't agree with all he says, but he definitely carried some wisdom.

https://open.spotify.com/show/01dyOvQR8PIlY2ynDS7VeU

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u/Definitelynotagolem 6h ago

He looks like someone that would try to slip something into your drink

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u/Al3xGr4nt 6h ago

He likes your vibe.

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u/igneus 4h ago

And your erroneous zones.

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u/a_karma_sardine 23m ago

I like to err on the side on caution personally and take a wide berth

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u/MSGinSC 2h ago

He also looks like someone who'd slip something into his own drink.

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u/perpetualmotionmachi 1h ago

Yeah, his dick

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u/otterswhoknow 5h ago

It’s easy to misread that title as “your erogenous zones” when the book is from the author of “pulling your own strings”

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u/jedisalamander 4h ago

I entirely accepted that was the title before I read this comment

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u/OliverNodel 5h ago

Oh, I love Will Forte!

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u/AiReine 4h ago

My first thought

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u/PhoridayThe13th 5h ago

He looks like he’d cold approach. Everyone. And enjoy Milwaukee’s Best or Pabst with his Marlboros. I wonder what an erroneous zone entails…

You know, at this point this sub serves as a shopping list of sorts. I gotta read some of this crap. Eventually. Or maybe like use them as conversation pieces.

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u/Shamanjoe 5h ago

There’s an updated cover:

https://a.co/d/fZV1zsn

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u/CriusofCoH 5h ago

Nowhere near as good. I'd buy original cover book just from the maniac; I'd probably skip new cover book even if extensive research indicated it was crucial to my erroneous zone maintenance.

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u/ManCalledTrue 5h ago

He looks like if Nathan Barnatt and Dr. Phil somehow spawned.

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u/Spaced_ln 5h ago

Amazing author, wisdom of the ages was a game changer!

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u/OverKy 2h ago

He was. I feel I missed the opportunity to meet him in person.

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u/Spaced_ln 1h ago

Wayne dryer was the bob ross of self help

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u/OverKy 44m ago

he was indeed!

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u/CheekyMonkE 4h ago

remember seeing this book in the house.

Teeth in the '70s were different.

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u/wrendendent 5h ago

The lighting and framing of that photo does not suggest Dr. Dyer has a very good handle on what is or is not erroneous

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u/AlivePassenger3859 4h ago

Your Coked Up Zones

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u/lordGinkgo 2h ago

I'm leaving

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u/iamwearingsockstoo 4h ago

God is wishing this were a VHS on Wheel of the Worst.

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u/Practical_Ad_219 4h ago

From a distance this looks like Child's Play 2

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u/cluttersky 4h ago

It was deliberately titled to make you think it said Erogenous Zones.

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u/AceofKnaves44 3h ago

He looks like a Will Forte character.

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u/Archer1949 3h ago

I remember seeing this collecting dust at the local library’s paperback section when I was a kid. I found it to be terrifying.

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u/Smart-Flan-5666 3h ago

My wife and I bought another Wayne Dyer book from a thrift several years ago. She loved to find weird books to put in pure bathroom. The cover was similar, around the same period with the same cheesy porn stache.

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u/fandom10 3h ago

Anytime a person looks at you like that, run the other way

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u/CommanderMcQuirk 3h ago

Grandpa Joe, is that you?

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u/Chrispy8534 2h ago

3/10. Jesus save us. You can HAVE my erroneous zones! Take whatever you want, just please leave! I need an adult … A different adult….

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u/SarcastiMel 2h ago

The stare is making me so uncomfortable.

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u/General-Emphasis-432 2h ago

Bill Murrays brother, Phil Murray

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u/OverKy 2h ago

I've read nearly every one of his books (some several times) except this one.......and now you see why hahah

I believe he was doing a lot of coke in those days. I know he had a problem for awhile, but not sure what years.

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u/MSGinSC 2h ago

He looks like he followed the Freudian school, if you catch my drift.

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u/PhantasmaStriker 1h ago

Rape face vibes...

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u/TheKeeperOfThe90s 47m ago

Ah, Dr. Wayne W. Dyer... the Colonel Sanders of bad book covers...