Saturday, September 6, 2008

Happiness reviews

I was completely taken by surprise upon reading all of the reviews for Happiness. I really enjoyed the book for several reasons, yet it seems I was the only one! The review that really surprised me was the one that referred to the book as "tame." Tame would be the last word that I would use to describe the book. It's true that the the humor sometimes distracted me from the "message" but that doesn't mean that it was tame. When I think tame, I think subtle, and the raw (often brutal) honesty that Ferguson uses isn't subtle at all. In fact, it was refreshingly blunt. It wasn't sugar-coated at all, it was real human experience, and I loved it.

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