Miserable You

 

I received from Amazon, Miserable You by Ron Mileti which, I must confess, was much anticipated after taking a quick glance at it last week. I really didn't expect it to be on the same level of War and Peace or Shakespeare and the biggest reason I was interested is because I wanted to see how the author composed the book; a research project if you will.

The perspective is unique as Mileti addresses a supposed audience of mediocre, underachievers who want to continue on said path. It's not unlike the successful businessman who espouses ways to guarantee failure is to do the opposite of what successful people do. 

Even though my personal expectations weren't very high to begin with, I was expecting more for my money. It's written on a 6th grade reading level as the sentences are short and choppy and the lessons are geared mainly for younger readers. 

The illustrations were good but being an illustrator myself I felt the book could have used more.

The humor seemed to be a little forced and sophomoric and too often. 

Of course it proposes to address readers who have a bad attitude, which is the rather brilliant way of writing it because anyone with such a poor outlook on life would not be reading it in the first place.

Mileti has good credentials and qualifications and uses a number of studies to support his assertions. The biggest selling point is even though the book leaves much to be desired, I have to take my hat off to him for publishing it which is doing
more than 95% of everyone.