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Summary: Great book, if a little simplistic.
Review: I bought this book to help me improve my social skills, which were impaired by child-hood abuse and a life-long depression.The book is easy to read and contains much good advice, even if it is a little simplistic at times. Reality is often a little more complicated than Mr. Matthews claims. For example, people don't really "choose" to be miserable. Despite its simplistic style, I highly recommend this book to all adults who are less than satisfied with their social life and would like to make more friends.
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Summary: A wonderful book.
Review: I want to recommend this book wholeheartedly. It is fun and easy to read, and will have your sides aching from laughing. But the laughter will not only be from the well-written, tongue-in-cheek humor - it will also be from relief. The relief will be that the everything presented in this book is very common-sensical and workable. Most of what Mr. Matthews has written here is no mystery - it's just that it may not have occurred to the reader. One revelation that had me slapping my forehead in realization is the notion that, when someone's angry or irate with you, facts don't help. Feelings do. Simple...? Yes. But this one little idea has already saved me from unknowingly escalating one really potentially volatile argument, and several smaller ones. This information is, literally, usable immediately. If you want to make more friends, or even if you'd like to improve the friendly (and even romantic) relationships you are already involved in, read this book. It is a compilation in plain language of everything about friendship that you've never been able to verbalize.
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Summary: Common Sense in a Concise, Easily Referenced Format
Review: I want to recommend this book wholeheartedly. It is fun and easy to read, and will have your sides aching from laughing. But the laughter will not only be from the well-written, tongue-in-cheek humor - it will also be from relief. The relief will be that the everything presented in this book is very common-sensical and workable. Most of what Mr. Matthews has written here is no mystery - it's just that it may not have occurred to the reader. One revelation that had me slapping my forehead in realization is the notion that, when someone's angry or irate with you, facts don't help. Feelings do. Simple...? Yes. But this one little idea has already saved me from unknowingly escalating one really potentially volatile argument, and several smaller ones. This information is, literally, usable immediately. If you want to make more friends, or even if you'd like to improve the friendly (and even romantic) relationships you are already involved in, read this book. It is a compilation in plain language of everything about friendship that you've never been able to verbalize.
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Summary: Great book, if a little simplistic.
Review: Of all Matthews' books, this is the one I like most . It is so inspiring and motivating. His ideas in this book are delivered in simple and humorous manners, yet true and practicable in our day to day encounters with others. Matthews is truly a genius!
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Summary: dissapointed
Review: Sorry to rain on everyone's parade about this book, its just i had been turned against on for a year by my friends, and my parents and i where willing to make me happier. It all started when i was in holidays in Australia. We went for a walk and after a while we went in a library, and i asked the lady if this would be suitable for my age(13), and she then said yes, so i bought it, and walked back to the hotel, and then to my suprise, this book was not helpful at all for me, it was telling me to do all these things that at my age would be considered lame, so i was very sad. So if your thinking about getting this book please note if your under 18 it wont help, though it had some funny comics of what not to do, and it had me happy for the amount of time it took me to finish this book, but it was telling me things like to dress up neat and show neatness, but i knew that if i did that i would be in a much worse case so please, don't buy this book if your under 18, it is just useless for under 18's, and i also didn't like the idea of how the reader was kinda pushing you into not being so sad or unhappy with yourself by saying things like, if you keep this up you could comite suicide and so on. Any way heres a discription on each 6 chapters. CHAPTER 1: This chapter is mainly saying how where all the same and we all have bad habits and we all get nervouse. This chapter mainly tries to get you to realise your not different to others. CHAPTER 2: This chapter tells you a bit about attracting people, expressing anger and blaming people. CHAPTER 3: This chapter seems to deal alot with assertiveness and to not care about what other people think about you. CHAPTER 4: This chapter deals with respect and tells you how to respect people, and it tells you a bit about the value of compliments. CHAPTER 5: This chapter talks about arguments and how to avoid arguments and fights,and this chapter may also teach you how to tell someone their wrong in a nice way. CHAPTER 6: This chapter talks about gossip, jealousy and how to make others happy. Overall go get this book if your over 18 and i recomend you check out his other book being happy(that helped me), and please note that this book didn't help me, but any way if you really disagree with my rating then forget about that and read the discription of each chapter. THANKYOU FOR READING-peace
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Summary: Friend? I've none until I read this book.
Review: That is a true statement, for me at least. I was a lonely figure that everyone like to avoid. I don't know why as I feel my intention is pure & good. And the book tell me what is wrong start from the first chapter. I was deadly wrong in every chapter. Thank to Andrew for pointing it out clearly. Just feel like this book is written for me from the upper sky. This book really makes a lot of friends for me.
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