How to Ruin Your Life Review
This book is great. It really makes you think. You cant put yourself down more than ben stein does so there is no place else to go but up!!!!! Love the book. Great condition and arrived on time...whatelse could one ask for?
How to Ruin Your Life Overview
How to Ruin Your Life is a powerful self-help tool in the form of a work of humor. It is sardonic advice, presented in a tongue-in-cheek style, explaining how people can "ruin" their lives. Topics include essays such as "Convince Yourself That You�re The Center of the Universe," "Think The Worst of Everyone," and "You Can Change People."
Seriously, though, to anyone who listens to this CD, it is an earnest warning about falling into traps of self-destructive behavior that can ruin any man or woman�s life. More than that, it comprises 35 steps which�if read and understood�provide a road map to making life work in the most effective way possible. It is humor and self-help all in one, delivered by Ben Stein, a man who has witnessed more than his share of people who did ruin their lives�as well as those whose lives have been wildly successful.
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Customer Reviews
Don't Pay for Grandma's Common Sense - William Alexander - Spartanburg, SC
Since I loathed the "documentary" "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed," I thought I would give Stein another chance. And this stinkbomb exploded in my face.
First off, Stein is obviously trying to be funny when discussing generic problems. But the humor is dead weight, bitter and dusty, even base. He's just not as amusing as he thinks he is. I am surprised his editor did not notice this and ask him to try to write a more straightforward book free from attempts at satire that come off as simply callous and even gleefully cruel.
There is absolutely nothing in this book that you could not get from talking to a loving, no-nonsense grandmother, and for free. Stein comes off, frankly, as a condescending boor, the paradigm of the stuffed-shirt "rich uncle" who seems to think that the world would be a better place if everyone was just like him. An exercise in the most appalling conceit that also seems to be disturbingly based on the assumption that every person and their situaton is more or less the same. It's so blandly conformist it's almost to the point of being a shade "creepy."
If you want real-world advice like this, talk to your mother, your grandmother, or your best a tell-it-like-it-is friend. And that won't cost you a copper farthing. And no one will intone, "Bueller, Bueller . . . . " But don't pay hard-earned cash for something you can get for absolutely nothing and from someone who actually cares instead of a wet blanket who only pretends to.
NO recommendation.
So funny - Nicholas Harris - Indiana
You will enjoy this book, and it will give you such good life lessons! A great conversation starter!
Not very good - J. Sacks -
This book is really not very good. It is a waste of time. The only thing I found funny was the chapter titles. The rest of the material is just fluff and a way for Ben Stein to cash in. I bought the book, read about 20 pages and finally gave up.
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