Mark Crane

Not good. 20 pages worth of advice spread over 320 cliche-laden pages filled with strings of Ben Franklin, Teddy Roosevelt, and Steve Jobs quotes thrown together seemingly at random. The story used as the vehicle for conveying the advice is frankly just weird, and not in an interesting or entertaining way. I felt like I was reading — one after another, for hours on end — roughly a thousand of those “inspirational” seize-the-day posters one might see lining the walls in a telemarketing call center. At page 200, in three successive sentences, the three main characters convey the following incredibly valuable insights: (1) “a wishbone without a backbone doesn’t get you far,” (2) “part-time commitment delivers part-time results,” and (3) “no idea works without doing the work.” Basically, that’s the book in a nutshell, except it goes on like that for 314 nauseating pages.