Asshole: How I Got Rich & Happy by Not Giving a Damn About Anyone & How You Can, Too
by Martin Kihn
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Author: Martin KihnEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-04-08
ISBN: 0767927265
Number of pages: 256
Publisher: Crown Archetype
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Book Review: A great 'feel good' read
Summary: 5 Stars
This book is just plain fun. From the title, you may get the wrong impression but I can tell you, it'd be really hard to read this book and not really sympathize with the author.
Basically, he's a little bit of all of us. He's a down to Earth guy who plays by the rules and has a good heart. Even when he outlines his rules of being an ahole, he won't for instance cheat on his wife. He says it's because he's afraid of retaliation, but read through the book and you'll no doubt see that's not the case at all - he truly loves his wife and considers her his closest friend. But such sentiment doesn't jibe with the image of being an ahole that he's trying to create.
Going through the book, you find a guy that loves his wife, loves dogs, cares about the 'little' people, and constantly goes out of his way to be a decent human being. He mentions this as proof of how he always gets pushed around and beaten down, but his 'miserable' life is one that few people could keep from envying (Loving attractive wife, Vice President of his company, liked by all of his employees, a really awesome dog etc etc)
The jerks in the book that he aspires to become are so utterly loathsome (As bad as "Nemisis" is, the short bald guy in the rental care line is the worst) that it's clear he could never truly be like any of them. But as he transforms, he really is funny and entertaining.
And even after he becomes a full fledged ahole, well, I don't think it really worked. It's a really funny book and one that I think pretty much anyone can relate to. Throughout it, he's showing that even though aholes seem to win so often, they really don't.
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