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This Book Will Change Your Life
Is the year ahead looking much the same as the last? Another 365-day grind of meetings, dinner dates, and deadlines? If so, try this book.
Part instruction manual, part therapy, part religious cult, part sheer anarchy, THIS BOOK WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE will help you poke a stick in the spokes of your routine and make every day of the next year the first day of your new life.
Part instruction manual, part therapy, part religious cult, part sheer anarchy, THIS BOOK WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE will help you poke a stick in the spokes of your routine and make every day of the next year the first day of your new life.
384 pages, Paperback
First published October 28, 2003
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April 24, 2008
It took me a year to read this book. Talk about a slow read. It came across my desk at work right after I started walking again after my car accident. This major THING (it has to be capitalized) happened to me but there I was living my life the same way when I felt a HUGE part of ME was different. A bright orange book with a stupid cliched title written by two men who together call themselves Benrik. The subtitle you ask? "365 daily instructions for hysterical living"
I flipped through it quickly, it was my job after all, to check for damage. The first thing I notice is that you are suppose to write in the book. A big nono for library books like alot of other things in your life, such as spitting inside a restaurant and anal sex. The next page that caught my eye was a survey where you count your blessings. You got to score more points for having regular bowel movements than if you have found god. I bought one of my own *full retail price* that very afternoon.
It's a rollercoaster ride of nerves, boredom, self reflection and that good old fashioned trouble making adrenaline. They start you off slow, but by the 5th day I was putting out of order signs on McDonald's drive through order boxes and public bathrooms. After I found my guts and unpacked them from the back of my closet, they did not want to go back into hiding.
What to do with these new found powers of confidence and stupidity? Well, LIVE of course.
I looked at the way people treated me, and the way I treated them. I stopped putting off the things I wanted to do and found out they weren't things I had wanted but NEEDED.
Of course some of the things in this book are nonsense, but that makes the soul wrenching tasks even more profound if you let them. Isn't that the key here. You get back what you put into it.
During June of that year my mission for the day was to write a letter to a mass murderer. They provide you with a list of names and addresses to make it easy. (This is besides the point but I chose Edmund Kemper.) Often I don't think anything I do effects the people around me. But the reactions I got from just telling my friends and family my next objective made me second guess what I had believed of myself. That I cause no ripples when I walk into the lake of life. The next and immediate question was. Do I WANT to create ripples? No, no I do not. So, I quietly wrote my letter and stopped telling people what my tasks have been.
I have been done with 'the book' as it is affectionately called on their website for over two years now. I miss the damn thing. They came out with a new one, but I'm not going to cheapen the precious year I had by doing it again.
Perhaps it was just my time to discover all these secret things about myself that I had been hiding. Maybe it wasn't 'the book' at all. I needed a way to poke at the insides of my insides and this was the tool. This... my big thick nono tool.
Better than $10, 000 dollars of therepy and $25, 000 dollars worth of drugs. I've inked it with more than two pens, my blood, tears and piss. Don't ask unless you really really want to know.
There will be no big ending, because in spirit it will go on. I will never look at the things I surround, the same way again. I have been a GOD that has declared death on the ant under my shoe and humbled by the simple task of enjoying the grass in my front yard. I've been embarrassed and enlightened.
Over the years I have read the adventures of made up characters in books and movies. I go to their world and for a short time I live through them. Well guess what the fuck I did? I had my own adventure. This book left an imprint on me, what more could you ask for from chopped up wood and crushed pigment?
This book is not for everyone. Don't spend your money on it. Go buy the double dick super vibrating butt plug you've had your eyes on or a fine ass crack smoking hooker instead. But whatever you do, make sure you fill your life with nonos.
I flipped through it quickly, it was my job after all, to check for damage. The first thing I notice is that you are suppose to write in the book. A big nono for library books like alot of other things in your life, such as spitting inside a restaurant and anal sex. The next page that caught my eye was a survey where you count your blessings. You got to score more points for having regular bowel movements than if you have found god. I bought one of my own *full retail price* that very afternoon.
It's a rollercoaster ride of nerves, boredom, self reflection and that good old fashioned trouble making adrenaline. They start you off slow, but by the 5th day I was putting out of order signs on McDonald's drive through order boxes and public bathrooms. After I found my guts and unpacked them from the back of my closet, they did not want to go back into hiding.
What to do with these new found powers of confidence and stupidity? Well, LIVE of course.
I looked at the way people treated me, and the way I treated them. I stopped putting off the things I wanted to do and found out they weren't things I had wanted but NEEDED.
Of course some of the things in this book are nonsense, but that makes the soul wrenching tasks even more profound if you let them. Isn't that the key here. You get back what you put into it.
During June of that year my mission for the day was to write a letter to a mass murderer. They provide you with a list of names and addresses to make it easy. (This is besides the point but I chose Edmund Kemper.) Often I don't think anything I do effects the people around me. But the reactions I got from just telling my friends and family my next objective made me second guess what I had believed of myself. That I cause no ripples when I walk into the lake of life. The next and immediate question was. Do I WANT to create ripples? No, no I do not. So, I quietly wrote my letter and stopped telling people what my tasks have been.
I have been done with 'the book' as it is affectionately called on their website for over two years now. I miss the damn thing. They came out with a new one, but I'm not going to cheapen the precious year I had by doing it again.
Perhaps it was just my time to discover all these secret things about myself that I had been hiding. Maybe it wasn't 'the book' at all. I needed a way to poke at the insides of my insides and this was the tool. This... my big thick nono tool.
Better than $10, 000 dollars of therepy and $25, 000 dollars worth of drugs. I've inked it with more than two pens, my blood, tears and piss. Don't ask unless you really really want to know.
There will be no big ending, because in spirit it will go on. I will never look at the things I surround, the same way again. I have been a GOD that has declared death on the ant under my shoe and humbled by the simple task of enjoying the grass in my front yard. I've been embarrassed and enlightened.
Over the years I have read the adventures of made up characters in books and movies. I go to their world and for a short time I live through them. Well guess what the fuck I did? I had my own adventure. This book left an imprint on me, what more could you ask for from chopped up wood and crushed pigment?
This book is not for everyone. Don't spend your money on it. Go buy the double dick super vibrating butt plug you've had your eyes on or a fine ass crack smoking hooker instead. But whatever you do, make sure you fill your life with nonos.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
August 16, 2008
When I first flipped through this book I thought it was ridiculous and hesitated to read it. I finally picked it up to occupy my daily bus commute. I fell in love with it. I would be the wierdo on the bus laughing out loud at first alittle shy to, but there were times that I just couldn't keep myself from busting out loud. This book did change my life. I enjoyed my daily commute and got over that shyness. I highly recomend this book. Try everything os even just somethings in the book at least once. You'll have a great time!
June 3, 2009
What is this book all bout? Basically, random tasks, one for every day of the year.
"It contains 365 daily orders, each one of which could turn your humdrum existence into a daily free-fall. On day 295, propose to a complete stranger. On day 181, get your street renamed after you. On day 16, discreetly give the finger to everyone you meet. Other days encourage self-crucifixion, currency manipulation, and writing to dictators.”
This book is very comical. It really sucks you right in, as all the suggestions are hilarious and you imagine in your mind the large (or nonexistent) changes/effects each task would impose onto your own life. Just for a heads up, some tasks are pretty time-consuming, and may impossible, so I doubt the average Joe, Jack or Jill would have it in them to really stick to the book’s plan. If you do, hey, power to ya.
Even though this book passes the time superbly, it’s kind of a one-timer for me. After I read through each task once, they lost their uniqueness and the shock factor that made them funny in the first place. If I go back to re-read it, it’s still slightly amusing, but not as much as it used to be. The amusement level will sink steadily, until now, while I am only using it to take up space.
"It contains 365 daily orders, each one of which could turn your humdrum existence into a daily free-fall. On day 295, propose to a complete stranger. On day 181, get your street renamed after you. On day 16, discreetly give the finger to everyone you meet. Other days encourage self-crucifixion, currency manipulation, and writing to dictators.”
This book is very comical. It really sucks you right in, as all the suggestions are hilarious and you imagine in your mind the large (or nonexistent) changes/effects each task would impose onto your own life. Just for a heads up, some tasks are pretty time-consuming, and may impossible, so I doubt the average Joe, Jack or Jill would have it in them to really stick to the book’s plan. If you do, hey, power to ya.
Even though this book passes the time superbly, it’s kind of a one-timer for me. After I read through each task once, they lost their uniqueness and the shock factor that made them funny in the first place. If I go back to re-read it, it’s still slightly amusing, but not as much as it used to be. The amusement level will sink steadily, until now, while I am only using it to take up space.
December 15, 2009
The subtitle: "365 Daily Instructions for Hysterical Living"
I found this book by chance and was sold. The design and illustrations are awesome. A little old school, a little hilarious, a little genius.
Some of the genius:
-This phrase is on the cover: "Feel insecure? You have good reason to."
-There's a chart inside so you can plot out your life, giving you 2 small lines for each year of your life up up to age 72 (when, presumably, you die), with highlights added for you ("party" on years 30, 40, 50, 60, and 70, "marriage and mortgage" at 28, etc.).
-There's a mood chart so you can "plot [your:] mood level every day of the month" and then "show one year's results to psychotherapist."
-A "history" of the Book, tracing it back to Roman times (and written by a Dr. at the Bern Institute of Cultural Studies).
Not so genius:
-Some of the color schemes. Apparently they aren't aware that yellow on white is extremely hard to read, for instance.
-It's a little crass. This, I'm sure, will not bother some people, but I prefer references to orgasms, for example, be kept to a minimum, or left out all together.
I spent an idle hour or two flipping through pages and determined that I needed to spend no more time on it, mildly entertaining as it was. Some of the suggestions are practical or even insightful, and then some are stupid or funny or illegal or immoral (I was especially not a fan of the "Explore Incest" suggestion). It's a zany mixture that I liked at the outset, but that makes it an impractical book to own or even give as a gift.
From my random flipping through, here's one of my favorite suggestions:
Day 296: CROSS A KEY WORD OUT OF A BOOK.
Cross the word "love" out of a romantic novel. Cross the murderer's name out of a whodunnit. Cross all the dates out of a history book.
Then lend it to someone you don't like much.
I found this book by chance and was sold. The design and illustrations are awesome. A little old school, a little hilarious, a little genius.
Some of the genius:
-This phrase is on the cover: "Feel insecure? You have good reason to."
-There's a chart inside so you can plot out your life, giving you 2 small lines for each year of your life up up to age 72 (when, presumably, you die), with highlights added for you ("party" on years 30, 40, 50, 60, and 70, "marriage and mortgage" at 28, etc.).
-There's a mood chart so you can "plot [your:] mood level every day of the month" and then "show one year's results to psychotherapist."
-A "history" of the Book, tracing it back to Roman times (and written by a Dr. at the Bern Institute of Cultural Studies).
Not so genius:
-Some of the color schemes. Apparently they aren't aware that yellow on white is extremely hard to read, for instance.
-It's a little crass. This, I'm sure, will not bother some people, but I prefer references to orgasms, for example, be kept to a minimum, or left out all together.
I spent an idle hour or two flipping through pages and determined that I needed to spend no more time on it, mildly entertaining as it was. Some of the suggestions are practical or even insightful, and then some are stupid or funny or illegal or immoral (I was especially not a fan of the "Explore Incest" suggestion). It's a zany mixture that I liked at the outset, but that makes it an impractical book to own or even give as a gift.
From my random flipping through, here's one of my favorite suggestions:
Day 296: CROSS A KEY WORD OUT OF A BOOK.
Cross the word "love" out of a romantic novel. Cross the murderer's name out of a whodunnit. Cross all the dates out of a history book.
Then lend it to someone you don't like much.
May 24, 2012
So, I really didn't do the stuff, this was a library copy so I couldn't write in it. I LOVE the concept of the book but was turned off by some of the suggestions, specifically to EAT and run. Yes, to go to a restaurant and then leave without paying the check. Bad karma, dude. And just not morally right. So....I would love a book like this that was full of GOOD things to do in the world. Yes, there were just a few bad stuff sprinkled in there, and the positive outweighted the bad, but I didn't want to have to ignore the bad stuff. Maybe if I ripped the pages out I didn't agree with, that would make it fine....
January 28, 2008
I had my eye on this book for months and my husband surprised me with it a couple years ago. I just picked it up again the other day.
This book really gets you thinking outside the box. It reminds me of being with my crazy little brother, who can turn just about anything into a game. Definitely full of ideas to make life more interesting.
I will say that a few ideas are a bit on the raunchy side.
This book really gets you thinking outside the box. It reminds me of being with my crazy little brother, who can turn just about anything into a game. Definitely full of ideas to make life more interesting.
I will say that a few ideas are a bit on the raunchy side.
January 1, 2016
Oh my heck--there are so many gutsy ideas in this book. Beginning on Monday, I am going to challenge myself and my students to attempt some of the suggestions in this book, suggestions that will move many of us outside of our comfort zones. Life is short, and I am all about good, clean fun.
December 8, 2024
3.5/5
#This Book Will Change Your Life
# Benrik
มันคือ365วิธีที่บ้าบิ่น หลุดโลก เกินเหตุ เข้าใจยาก เอ็กซ์ตรีม เฉพาะกลุ่ม ที่ผู้เขียนเคลมว่าเปลี่ยนชีวิต นี้คือไบเบิ้ลของคนที่อยากให้ชีวิตแซ่บซี้ดมากขึ้น(เราแปลเองสั้นๆว่า365เรื่องหาทำ) เป็นหนังสือใน ซีรีส์cultๆ"This Diary will change your life"
ตอนนั้นเบื่อๆเดินผ่านAsia Booksเปิดดูแล้วมันบ้าๆบอๆคาดไม่ถึงดีเลยซื้อมา ซึ่งก็ไม่มีอะไรที่กล้าทำตามเลย5555 ในหัวเต็มไปด้วยคำว่าอิหยังวะ อะไรของมันเนี่ย(เช่นให้เผยแพร่คลิปxxxของตัวเองออกสู่สาธารณะแบบปารีส ฮิลตัน) บางอันก็เออน่ารักดี บางอันก็บ้าบอคอเต่า แต่ก็อ่านเพลินดีนะ 55555
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#This Book Will Change Your Life
# Benrik
มันคือ365วิธีที่บ้าบิ่น หลุดโลก เกินเหตุ เข้าใจยาก เอ็กซ์ตรีม เฉพาะกลุ่ม ที่ผู้เขียนเคลมว่าเปลี่ยนชีวิต นี้คือไบเบิ้ลของคนที่อยากให้ชีวิตแซ่บซี้ดมากขึ้น(เราแปลเองสั้นๆว่า365เรื่องหาทำ) เป็นหนังสือใน ซีรีส์cultๆ"This Diary will change your life"
ตอนนั้นเบื่อๆเดินผ่านAsia Booksเปิดดูแล้วมันบ้าๆบอๆคาดไม่ถึงดีเลยซื้อมา ซึ่งก็ไม่มีอะไรที่กล้าทำตามเลย5555 ในหัวเต็มไปด้วยคำว่าอิหยังวะ อะไรของมันเนี่ย(เช่นให้เผยแพร่คลิปxxxของตัวเองออกสู่สาธารณะแบบปารีส ฮิลตัน) บางอันก็เออน่ารักดี บางอันก็บ้าบอคอเต่า แต่ก็อ่านเพลินดีนะ 55555
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March 1, 2020The best word to describe this book is "silly". I picked this up at a book sale because it looked to have fun graphic design and a quick glance showed me days like "deliver your emails by hand today," which I could imagine myself doing and it made me smile.
A lot of the suggestions are impossible to follow. This book mixes true things with very untrue things. So I do not believe it is meant to be applied or cause laughter, but rather to inspire the reader to be a little more spontaneous.
This book has inspired me to send a few letters I would not have otherwise!
A lot of the suggestions are impossible to follow. This book mixes true things with very untrue things. So I do not believe it is meant to be applied or cause laughter, but rather to inspire the reader to be a little more spontaneous.
This book has inspired me to send a few letters I would not have otherwise!
November 14, 2018
How to add a little daily whimsy to your life. If you live in a routine and you want to add a little irreverence and subversion it, this is a good cheap solution.
Noting too grandiose yet still a nice bit of fun.
Noting too grandiose yet still a nice bit of fun.
April 6, 2018
استمعت لهذا الكتاب بصيغة صوتية عن طريق اليوتيوب
September 28, 2018
Hate the name. But the book's hilarious😁. Don't expect to acquire much knowledge from it, just reading for fun, you may find some interesting ideas.
July 5, 2021
Utter silliness a perfect gag gift
December 7, 2021
Should be called 'Delusional Magic Thinking For Achieving Your Material Consumerist Desires'.
Gave up at the chapter 'Quantum Bullshit by Dummies'.
Gave up at the chapter 'Quantum Bullshit by Dummies'.
October 14, 2023
Amazing.
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May 21, 2025
Don't bother... but if you do you will need a 10,000 lumens lightsource, a laboratory grade electron microscope (or at least a strong magnifying glass)!
March 22, 2017
while the humor of the book is great, the physical quality of it is pretty bad. Some pages are cut off and cannot be read completely, the text is at times blurry, and the color schemes are sometimes hard or impossible to read. Also, many pages require you to use their website which doesn't even work.
February 28, 2012
On a purely comedic level, This Book Will Change Your Life does its job and does it well. In coffee table/bathroom book fashion, it is eye-catching, diverting, and easy to digest in small, random doses. Also, since all 365 entries have their own look and feel, it will appeal to a variety of humors and tastes.
Despite its obviously hokey premise, the book's aims are (for the most part) legitimate. At least, they take great pains for you to believe that they are. There are a few mostly impossible suggestions (very few people could manage, for instance, to spend an entire day underwater) which diminish any seriousness one might bring to the book's claims, but overall, I found myself wishing that I had both the time and the energy to put into motion the book's proposal of daily life changing.
Ironically, I think the book's best impact would be on people who do try to live out the ideas mentioned in the pages, if for no other reason than it would make the humor in those ideas more poignant and personal. Things like going one day without your sense of sight, or mailing your picture and $5 to a random address, or fasting for one day are funny to read about, but their practice, I imagine, would provide one's life with a definite, if not brief, edge. Perhaps your life as a whole won't change, but that day will certainly be very, very different.
Because the book's humor is so overt and, at the same time, subtle and invasive, it's a given that few people will try to put into practice the book's demands (even though mulitple entries promise fame "in the next book" for people who turn in their various results). This, I think, is a shame. Even if some of the book's suggestions are mundane (A "do it yourself" day suggests that you change a light bulb), unfeasible (again, all day underwater?), or a deliberate waste of space (I'm thinking of the gender specific entries, or the day that says, "ignore this entry" and has no suggestions), I would be pleased to see a world of Book Owners putting the ideas into practice. Not only would they get a kick out of it, but the rest of us might, too.
On the other hand, it is much safer to just read the thing.
Despite its obviously hokey premise, the book's aims are (for the most part) legitimate. At least, they take great pains for you to believe that they are. There are a few mostly impossible suggestions (very few people could manage, for instance, to spend an entire day underwater) which diminish any seriousness one might bring to the book's claims, but overall, I found myself wishing that I had both the time and the energy to put into motion the book's proposal of daily life changing.
Ironically, I think the book's best impact would be on people who do try to live out the ideas mentioned in the pages, if for no other reason than it would make the humor in those ideas more poignant and personal. Things like going one day without your sense of sight, or mailing your picture and $5 to a random address, or fasting for one day are funny to read about, but their practice, I imagine, would provide one's life with a definite, if not brief, edge. Perhaps your life as a whole won't change, but that day will certainly be very, very different.
Because the book's humor is so overt and, at the same time, subtle and invasive, it's a given that few people will try to put into practice the book's demands (even though mulitple entries promise fame "in the next book" for people who turn in their various results). This, I think, is a shame. Even if some of the book's suggestions are mundane (A "do it yourself" day suggests that you change a light bulb), unfeasible (again, all day underwater?), or a deliberate waste of space (I'm thinking of the gender specific entries, or the day that says, "ignore this entry" and has no suggestions), I would be pleased to see a world of Book Owners putting the ideas into practice. Not only would they get a kick out of it, but the rest of us might, too.
On the other hand, it is much safer to just read the thing.
April 27, 2024
Silly, but amusing in places.
August 9, 2016
I was attempting this book while working at a veterinary clinic in Lompoc. Every receptionist was aware that I was trying my best to complete the task for each day, and some would look ahead and laugh at the stupidness I was in for. I remember licking dew off a blade of grass and then questioning the likelyhood, at a veterinary clinic, that it was dew. I remember having extreme difficulty killing one ant for the sheer sake of...killing one ant. I remember eating so much asparagus that my roommates gagged when I peed. But the most prominent memory, and the reason I had to forfeit the book: It was a Tuesday, I think. Of course, we had an office meeting. The book instructed me to masturbate at some stupidly precise time, I think it was a little after 2:00 p.m. Of course, we were still in the meeting. Of course, everyone had read my page for the day and made that office meeting 10x more uncomfortable than office meetings already are. I couldn't do it. So there it was. I also read ahead through most of the pages, and decided I couldn't afford a trip to France either. My advice to anyone who is considering attempting this book is... A. It might be easier if left confidential. B. Save up your money. and C. Don't be an idiot and lick urine off of grass. If it isn't still misty outside, it's probably wet for other reasons.
August 18, 2011
On Day 117 of THIS BOOK WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE, the authors state they want David Copperfield the illusionist to read their book. David Copperfield, if you are out there reading this or googling your name, please, read this book if you haven’t already. You too, Madonna and Tiger Woods. This book will change your life.
This is a funny, laugh-out-loud type of book. With 365 days of activities to change your life, the goal is simple. On Day 247, you should eat everything with chopsticks, and on Day 276, you should go to the zoo and actually feed the animals. I’ve always wanted to feed a lion, and this has given me the courage to actually go and sacrifice a gazelle to my childhood dreams. Not really, of course, this book is about the comedy and not about actually getting you arrested for something stupid. At least I hope not. But there are some fun activities to confuse and possibly scare people.
With fun illustrations and comedy in small but heavy doses (if you do decide to just read one page a day, which I couldn’t do because the comedy just kept driving me forward), THIS BOOK WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE will change your life, or at least give you ideas for silly things to do to annoy your friends and family.
This is a funny, laugh-out-loud type of book. With 365 days of activities to change your life, the goal is simple. On Day 247, you should eat everything with chopsticks, and on Day 276, you should go to the zoo and actually feed the animals. I’ve always wanted to feed a lion, and this has given me the courage to actually go and sacrifice a gazelle to my childhood dreams. Not really, of course, this book is about the comedy and not about actually getting you arrested for something stupid. At least I hope not. But there are some fun activities to confuse and possibly scare people.
With fun illustrations and comedy in small but heavy doses (if you do decide to just read one page a day, which I couldn’t do because the comedy just kept driving me forward), THIS BOOK WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE will change your life, or at least give you ideas for silly things to do to annoy your friends and family.
July 6, 2007
A funny book that's a perfect diversion when you're taking life way too seriously and perhaps need to shake off the serious adult that has taken over every aspect of your being. It offers "365 daily instructions for hysterical living" such as pictorial examples and instructions for, "today do something radical with your hair", "tonight date yourself", "discreetly give the finger to people all day today", "place an ant on this page and trace its movements with a pencil", and "defy hierarchy today", to list a few. A warning: Day 8 "Addiction-Free Day" is pretty much impossible, so just skip it.
August 19, 2015
"This Book Will Change Your Life" may not completely change your life, but just flipping through the pages can still add a little pizazz in your everyday happenings. While the tasks are often extremely goofy--or too out-there to actually complete--I appreciate how it challenges you to live outside the box in small, silly ways: ways that that will make a difference over time or, if anything, make a good story to tell strangers/sinner party guests/your friends/your significant other's parents. (Writing a letter to a mass murderer--as instructed by the book--is a good topic starter/stopper.)
May 22, 2010
Very Funny, and overall a good message to it. If you can do all the things in this book, your free and you dont give a crap what anyone this of you! On the other hand not very many people are willing to do everything in the book so it ends up just being something to laugh at....not really worth the money after a couple of days.
February 4, 2013
I never actually finished this book. I tried, but I kept forgetting about it and falling way behind. Then I never really picked it back up.
It was a great idea, and I'm sure that many people will love it. I just lose track of books if they don't hold my attention and, due mostly to the "snippet nature" of this book, it just couldn't do that.
Bottom line - it just wasn't my thing.
It was a great idea, and I'm sure that many people will love it. I just lose track of books if they don't hold my attention and, due mostly to the "snippet nature" of this book, it just couldn't do that.
Bottom line - it just wasn't my thing.
February 21, 2017
And boy did it ever! I feel more satisfied with my life than I ever remember being, even when I was but a wee child - the memories of which time are still vivid, because I had the foresight to document them in excruciating detail like some kind of infant Marcel Proust! But I hardly ever think about those old tapes anymore because THIS BOOK CHANGED MY LIFE! THANK YOU BENRIK! THANK YOU SO MUCH!
September 27, 2007
I think I have to put this on a totally different shelf ---- currently "experiencing". lol. I still haven't finished all 365 things in the book yet - it takes a long time, but it's super interesting.
February 6, 2008
This book is a really fun read. There is something different you are supposed to do each day. It's not meant to be taken seriously, but it made me laugh, and there are some things that you'd like to do.
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