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Good Advice From Bad People: Selected Wisdom From Murderers, Stock Swindlers, And Lance Armstrong (2014)

by Zac Bissonnette(Favorite Author)

3.44 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1591846897 (ISBN13: 9781591846895)

languge

English

genre

Humor

publisher

Portfolio Trade

review 1: This was quick reading, fortunately, but it does confirm at least one fact; that people who make foolish mistakes can also do or say some good things at times. The reverse is also true; that an intelligent, wise, and conscientious person can also make a horrible mistake and do something evil or stupid. In fact all people are capable of good and evil, and most, perhaps all, have committed good and evil acts. No one is perfect and no one is completely evil. Of course those points could have been made in a more efficient and effective manner in a book with a somewhat different focus.Having said that I also am still an admirer of Lance Armstrong's athletic accomplishments. I think his winning 7 Tour de France races is only slightly diminished by his use of illegal preforman... morece enhancing substances. Highly competitive races like theses are won by narrow margins, so the use of illegal substances probably only slightly improved his chances of winning. The rest was hard work. More distressing than his use of drugs was the abusive way he treated others. However this book seems to have been written more to make fun of people who cheated or failed in some way, than to promote some wise and worthwhile comment or ideal, and in that sense is probably as much a failure as the people it mocks.
review 2: First I won this in the Goodreads Book Giveaway.Very entertaining and I would agree with the vast majority of people that were chosen they were bad people. There are a few that I think just made poor choices and were basic hypocrites. I also find that most hypocrites can be found in political and religious arena and that would be the last place I would seek advice. I will stick with the advice my grandparents and parents have given me. less

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