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1.0 out of 5 stars Hard to take seriously., 25 Jan 2008

By	StuRob "Boggly boggly boo" (England) - See all my reviews

I will admit that I was loathe to buy this book for my partner as the cover really did say bad things to me.

I know, how very daft to judge a book by it's cover, but seriously it is very hard not to when the picture just seems so out of place with the content itself.

So before I gave it to my girlfriend, I did the old skim read and was surprised it got me so angry. It is filled with that sort of pseudo-advice that we all stereotypically think the Americans love. You know, stuff that is just so obvious that it really doesn't need to be said.

Also, a lot of the messages in the book are really very disturbing. I am pretty sure at one point Lawrence is telling us not to do anything we think we may not be very good at and stick to what we know we can "achieve."

So, is that right? We should not attempt anything new or out of the ordinary in case we fail at it and judge ourselves too harshly? What sort of world would we live in if our historical pioneers had had that sort of attitude?

I surprised myself when I gave the book to my partner, I really thought I should have binned it. It does have a happy ending, she hated it too and we took it up to our local Shelter charity shop.

I really cannot recommend this book, and my girlfriend backs me on this. There are many self-help books out there, and almost all of them carry better messages than this one.

DO try new things, if you struggle, TRY again. If you hate it, try something ELSE. That's what makes life fun ...

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1.0 out of 5 stars This book has a 'desensualizing effect' on the audience., 18 Dec 2008

By	John Shepard - See all my reviews

The Title of this book originally got my attention, and since it was my mother's birthday soon i decided to buy it from a local store. Before wrapping it up i decided to skim read it to see if it would be an enjoyable book for my mother, or whether i should take it back to the store and swap it for another book. Im so glad i did as this book is basicly a waste of time.

This book is a self-help book for females, but rather than improving the lives of woman it essentialy pushes back womans rights by decades; she portrays woman as 'objects of desire', and as 'hot bodies' - just looking at the front cover even further proves my point - she tries to push the point that 'woman should not be valued for anything other than their sexuality' which is of course completely wrong. She does this by saying that woman should perfect themselves for the interest of other people, when it should be for themselves.

The content of this book is very basic and common sense, so obvious it should not be written down as everyone already knows this sort of stuff. Its like she did no research what so ever, and is just talking about somethng she does not understand. There have even been recent studies in the university of maryland that give advice that is years ahead of Cooper

In conclusion, Cooper comes over as an extremely shallow woman that has not done her homework on the subject of the matter. This book will never have a Massive Effect on the audience its aimed at.
There are so many better books out there