This is an interesting book, written in a simple easy to read fashion. The book was a quick read, to the point and really profound. I have not read any other Eckhart Tolle book before so I didn't know what to expect. I expected a book with lofty intellectual ideas and complicated philosophies, but no.... this book is none of that.
The content of the book examines the ego, how our true self is very different from the ego. It also discusses ideas that were completely new to me like the "pain body". Eckhart gently teaches us all these concepts and explains how one can bring foward the true self by living in the present.

For me this book was helpful in many ways, it taught me to identify situations when my ego took over. I no longer try to get even during arguments, I no longer try to prove that I'm perfect, I no longer take for granted the simple pleasures of life. I have realised that beyond our ego's all of us are perfect.

Granted when I read the book, some parts made me really uncomfortable, I saw how my egoic behaviour in some instances was so petty. But overall if it makes you examine your own self, and helps you break barriers that are holding you back from the best person you can be....its worth trying out the ideas isn't it ? That's my take on it.