Lust For Life

by Sylvester McNutt III

Sylvester McNutt III is a four time best-selling author on Amazon. He has spoken to thousands of people about real love, abundance, self-love, healing from broken relationships and how to manifest abundance. He is one of the leading authorities in this generation on maximizing life's resources to obtain love and happiness. Sylvester has a cult like following of passionate readers and viewers across his social media platforms that total over 450,000 humans. In Lust For Life, Sylvester gives you detailed blueprint through affirmations to dive deep into your soul with the sole purpose of pushing you towards what you consistent peace, happiness, abundance in all pillars, and relationships that are rewarding. The affirmations, stories, and perspectives in Lust For Life will grab you from the first page and will take you down an empowering path towards manifesting a powerful new you.

Genres: Nonfiction, Poetry, Inspirational

402 pages, Paperback

Published October 21, 2017

Reviews

[Toric · Rating 1 out of 5]

Boring repetitive self indulgent twaddle. Never in my life have I not finished a book until now. The book could be at least half the number of pages, especially as so many pages only have a couple of lines of text - what a waste of a tree. The quotes in the book all have Sylvester's name after them - It makes you wonder if Mr McNutt is nothing more than a narcissist. Why bother putting your name after every single quote especially as it's your self published book and you are not quoting anyone else. Awful not even worth the one star.

[Camille · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is very specific and is only helpful if you are in the space to want to read it. I enjoyed it and it really made me think about some of my behaviors and look at myself differently. Really, that's what its about, doing what's good for you. Its affirmation. Some of us need it from time to time.

[Caitlyn Kasper · Rating 2 out of 5]

I picked up this book after I saw a friend on my feed had marked it as a "To-Read" and I thought it would be good for me since I was going through a lot at the time. It was not what I was expecting. Even after I read countless reviews before deciding to purchase, I did not get the sense that it would basically just be a book of quotes.

I didn't give it more stars because I didn't think it was very well-written. The parts of the book that were not just quotes, I found to not have much depth to them. I felt like there was a lot written, yet not much being said. There was a good amount of unnecessary swearing that I thought took away from the messages. A lot of the quotes were extremely repetitive. At one point there were like 10 pages in a row with the same beginning to the quote, with small variations to the ends.

However, I didn't give it less stars because I did like some of the quotes. It's not like these quotes were anything I didn't know before, they weren't 'life-changing' like many people noted in the reviews, but some were just helpful reminders.

"The main reason we struggle with letting go is because we care too much about the wrong things or the wrong people, at the wrong time."

"You're the type of lover who always fights for your partner. You just need the type of lover who is going to stay and fight with you, no matter how tough it gets. You know what you want when you want it so you need someone who wants to choose you over and over."

"Be patient so they won't mistake you for someone who is replaceable."

"You love in such a deep way that you should never settle for just anybody, just to say that you have somebody. Your love is rare, it heals, and it uplifts people when they feel broken or down. Find the person who is your other half, the person who makes you feel like you are whole. Find the person who loves just as hard as you, the one who will not make you look stupid for being loyal to them."

"It's so important that we learn the art of apologizing and accountability. There are too many adults who revert back to victim complex and excuses. And then, they do not realize the process of bliss and happiness requires you to be accountable for your actions. At times, we feel like apologizing may make us weak, but that is our ego talking. Never allow your ego to stop you from healing relationships."

"Until you learn how to say 'It was my fault, and I made a bad decision' without guilt-tripping yourself or feeling bad, you will suffer."

[Manpreet Bhandal · Rating 4 out of 5]

To read and enjoy this book you need an open mind, patience, and the will to “lust for life”. I bought a copy of this years ago and it sat on the bookshelf collecting dust. At the start of this year, taking further steps towards a minimalist lifestyle, I decided I’d read all my untouched books (and even reread previously read ones) to decide what I should keep or give to charity. This one’s taken me by surprise. I WILL be giving it to charity but not because I didn’t enjoy it; instead because I want it to help others the way it’s helped me. Without getting too personal, all I can say is it’s really helped my visualise what I want for life and maybe even made me want to live. Not sure if it’ll work for everyone as it’s not a traditional self help book (some may even find it a little messy), but it’s worked for me, I’m grateful to have read it and hope it does work for others too.
“The goal is to lust for life… live free… chase happiness and peace.”

[Liz Nakata · Rating 5 out of 5]

I think every man and woman needs to own this book to remind themselves of what matters to them. So many quotes resonated with me and were great reminders to choose friends wisely, to ensure that I am aware of things that suck me of emotion, energy, red flags in relationships, and to honor myself by making good choices. Sylvester has so much wisdom! I keep this by my nightstand to read a few quotes before bed time.

[Matthew · Rating 2 out of 5]

McNutt has a pedantic writing style and a view of the world that’s wildly unrealistic. His inspirational quotes that aren’t centered around his grandiose self-congratulating are inspiring enough and were the reason I first bit on this book. But I couldn’t finish it due to his prose. He speaks in nonsense and it just isn’t worth it. Follow his IG and take the good quotes and skip the books from him.

[Arcane Noctis · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5/5

It's a good book in the sense of the message that it wants to send. I like how the author uses simple ways of wording things, but it's sometimes difficult to apply to certain things in life. He wants to be flexible and that his way of wording is good but he always uses the same example.

The book was good though and gives solid advice on life.

[Ally Honeybee · Rating 1 out of 5]

Dnf @ 290. It was one half common sense and one half his view on how relationships should be. His opinions on how relationships are supposed to be and feeling like I had to finish are the reasons why I had to stop reading it.

[Malou · Rating 3 out of 5]

3,5* interessante kern en prettige, vrije structuur. Het boek voelt met vlagen oppervlakkig en iets te Amerikaans aan. Wel een paar 'inspirational quotes' rijker.

[Kari · Rating 5 out of 5]

pretty uplifting

[Claudia Rojas]

Buenos quotes, pero falta mas sustancia.