He said some parts were good, and others didn't help at all
927160
My teenage grandson suffers with anxiety, since his mother (my daughter), took her life 4 years ago.  He said that the workbook helped a little, and that it was okay.  He said some parts were good, and others didn't help at all.  At least he took the time to use it!  That says a lot!  Thank you.
2763704
Perhaps it was to learned for me. It just seemed total crap. Yet he worked very hard to produce it. Different mind set.
2341996
This guy did some great things, to be sure, but the book isn't written well.
2822197
Some of his ideas are a bit off the wall some are not.  I confirmed that with my gastroenterologist. Wish what he said could be that easy.
2820900
The first half might be summarized:
1.  Things are really good and getting better all the time.
2.  Some (much fewer) things aren't so good, and some (even fewer) things are getting worse.
3.  Anyway, the good things aren't making us happy.

Along the way, he proffers numerous possibilities for why people aren't happy but none of them are analyzed at length.  I didn't feel any more enlightened than after reading the earlier&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/The-Good-Life-and-Its-Discontents-The-American-Dream-in-the-Age-of-Entitlement/dp/0679781528/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">The Good Life and Its Discontents: The American Dream in the Age of Entitlement</a>&nbsp;].  In fact, I found more satisfying the few pages in&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/How-the-Mind-Works/dp/0393334775/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">How the Mind Works</a>&nbsp;(pp. 389-393 The Happiness Treadmill, and pp. 506-9 on friendship ).

Then, for a few chapters, he presents evidence that people who forgive, have gratitude, and are spiritual are happier.  So if we want to be happier, we should cultivate forgiveness, gratitude, and spirituality.  Instead, he says, people are constantly looking for someone to blame or to be annoyed with.  This is not just socially accepted but socially rewarded.  And intellectuals tell us everything is purposeless atoms in an uncaring universe.

The last 80 pages are an argument for what the early 20th century would have called social gospel: universal health insurance, a high minimum wage, lots of foreign aid; government should regulate executive compensation.  Whether you agree with these or not, they don't have much to do with the subtitle of the book.

To be fair, Easterbrook pretty much says, They would make me happy, and they SHOULD make you happy, too.  However, that points to another problem with the book.  Though marketed as a work of social science, it is full of preaching.  Much of the book is not about why people feel worse or better but about how the author thinks we should live.

In the last few pages, he seems to say, Once we are not poor, nothing we do will make us happier, so we should just be good people and do good things.  Now that would be an interesting thesis to organize a book around.
4355434
The bomber turned out looking really good, but there are a bunch of annoying little pieces that just didn't work. The wheels, I thought, were really cool - they're retractable, and can be brought out of their housings to land. This was a really nice touch, but the flaps that cover them had to be glued into place, and so all that work on the wheels was completely wasted, as they are now encased in the wings and glued inside. This seemed like a complete mistake to me. The flaps, and some other parts of the model, did not fit together well, and even with trimming they could only be attached clumsily and messily.
So far I've only focused on the bad aspects of the model, but that doesn't mean it's all bad.

Pros:
Nice finish (except for the clumsy wheel well).
Good painting and decal schemes
Bombs look awesome

Cons:
Almost impossible not to get big smudges of cement on the clear cockpit pieces
Wheels make no sense
Some pieces don't fit together well
315618
Guess he needs more experience to get up to speed with his father.  It got rather boring by the time I was half way through it.  He has promise though
2900798
The book wasn't great. It didn't explain things well or in a way that was easily comphrendible.
4731727
Some of the nuts were bad, and there were some shell bits. Don't know if there's any way around that though.
669255
some of the thread was very good, then some of it was raveling very badly. It seemed as though it was brittle.
2369519
It did have some stuff that wasn't good  and I think there was some swearing in it, too. But, other than that, it was pretty okay.
3186709
So repetitive it wasn't the least bit funny or helpful.
2180201
I really don't remember this.  So, must not have been very good (at least, in my opinion).
3244704
This got 3 stars from me because parts are worth 5 stars and parts are really bad.  I got tired of the missing pronouns.  What is so hard about using the word "I".  Occasionally it was cute, but after a while it made Max sound uneducated when he kept saying things like "Would love some coffee, babe".  When he did it for 7 sentences in a row I got annoyed.

Why Nina would get mad about things for no reason made no sense.  And when Max would manhandle her I didn't find it endearing, I found it abusive.

On the other hand, the author knows how to make it so clear when Max was attracted to Nina.  When he called her duchess, and babe, and honey, and took care of her, you could FEEL the heat.  I liked the attraction at the beginning more than the sex scenes, since Max was too controlling during sex.

And finally, I didn't like the overused cussing - specifically the F word- over and over, to start 10 sentences in a row.  This is supposed to be a caring guy who owns an expensive house.  The cussing didn't fit with who I thought Max was, and I don't think a lawyer from Great Britain would be impressed by the use of the word in so many conversations they had together.
344328
the guy who sold this to me stated he wasn't sure if it would work or not, well it definitely didn't work so I guess he was right.
1590480
I bought the book as a gift for my son, a veteran Lego builder who is not daunted by large and complex builds.  It has sat on the shelf for the better part of a year, so I asked why he never used it.  He explained that he liked the project ideas, but that we didn't have the parts on hand for them.  He also explained that getting them was very difficult, as the book does not actually give the parts numbers.  He understated the frustration, it took hours of searching multiple sites to figure out the name and number of a part, and to track it down from a reseller.  Here is his review of Forbidden Lego:

"I liked the book, but I hated the rareness of the pieces. We had to go to special sites to find the parts because they were so rare. These were the kind of pieces that regular Lego sets wouldn't have. You'd have to get a Technic set to find some of them. Even then, they'd still be hard to find. BUT, I will say this, the projects looked (to me anyway) like once you built them, all the effort was more than worth it."

We will see if we can find all the missing parts and manage to complete a build, and will update with our results.
2808812
The first part he tried to prove his ideas through word study but none of what he said made sense.  I got to 61% and decided not to read any more because he basically called Jesus a liar as He described Lazaras situation.