Didn't think I *needed* this book, but quickly got "called out"!!
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I started reading this book thinking, "Sure, I've quit a few things in the past, but I'm no quitter". I would have never thought to label myself as a quitter or a "Quitzilla", as Nicki explains. So, with that mind frame, I thought this book would be interesting and I was sure packed full of wisdom from someone that IS a quitter, but I wasn't too sure how much it could benefit someone like me~ someone I would have self-titled as an "occasional quitter". Boy, oh boy was I wrong!! Nicki stepped all over these toes of mine as she looked straight into my heart and called me out as a "quiet quitter"~ one who finds life's discouragements as reasons (excuses) to cower down when the going gets tough and quit in her heart, rather than stay with God and "stay open to the movement of God in her life". But rather than leaving me there, all bruised with my freshly stepped-on toes, she gave me fresh perspective of Ruth's love story from the Bible, and shows me 5 habits of a woman who stays with God and doesn't quit... even during those feelings of "it's too late for me" or "I'm not good enough". In this book, Nicki reminded me that "nothing and no one can threaten your purpose in God... God doesn't meet us at perfection. He meets us where we are in our process toward receiving His promises." And she encourages everyone who reads this, no matter where you are in your journey in life of quitting, that "nothing is ever too late for God to turn it around. Nothing. Your worth is not defined by what you've already quit, how many times it takes you to get this thing completed, or who is moving faster than you." More than anything, I needed the reminder that, "What God ordains, He sustains."

You may be like me and not even recognize you're a quitter. But once you start dipping into the wisdom God imparts through Nicki's book, you'll be able to start gaining a fresh perspective of His purpose and calling for your life and you'll be able to move forward in your renewed faith with fresh energy and passion to be used for God and even make generational changes, as Ruth did!
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I was over at a guy friends house when I saw this book on his nightstand, I read through a few pages when he took it from me lol! So I checked it out from the library to see what this book was all about.

Wow is all I can say... telling a girl she has an eye booger works? Not with me or any of my friends. Maybe a girl suffering from low self esteem (yes insanely hot girls have low self worth too), but a healthy person would not feel like this was a good talking point at a club.

I will say most of these methods I do naturally, I didn't realize some people studied and practiced it. It's just being social, so of course it will work. Other things such as going up to a group of people and starting a conversation about a dorky magic trick.... uh no. Not with any real hip group of friends. Me and my girlfriends love men like this, we pretend we are all into them just to get them to continue their little performance. They never even realize we are being facetious and leading them on until the end, and sometimes not even then. His game worked on Courtney Love for two reasons, one she cares too much about herself to notice the other person and two she is a crackhead. Pretty sure right time, right place may have been his lucky key.

However the book itself was funny and interesting but it made me feel uncomfortable. after all, PUA's live with their parents still? Really? Use your "game" to con someone into giving you a good paying job!
1037735
This book was written for me.  It described me to a "T".  But as I tried to put things into practice, I realized that unless those around me also read the book, it wasn't really going to work.  I kept telling people that perhaps I was an introvert and they just laughed at me.  I was so glad that someone else in the world recognized my issues and could put them into words.  I will read it again when I need re-assurance that I am not the crazy one - everyone else is.
958407
I didn't read the book. it was given to me at the workshop. i was going to read it until i listened to the speaker bill for a few hours. If that book is a best seller then there are some real idiodts out there. Bill had the whole room to walk and talk. He chose to walk back and fourth behind me and the person next to me.  I don't know about you, but i don't like people behind me. it made both of us very uncomfortable.  Could not see or make eye contact with him.i It was frustrating!  Was this his first time talking in public? When he would pause, i would almost fall asleep because the pause was so long. My dog can keep my attention better than bill. when i asked him questions he would never answer my questions in full. Like he didn't know or was bothered by me asking. on the second day i asked him a question and he asked me if i wanted to leave.  I had not thaught about leaving until he asked. I was there to learn. After a few seconds I was pissed that he asked me, so I waited until a break and left. life is too short to listen to some one who is so full of them self just stating the obvious. Everything I learned in the first 2 days, I already knew. Except for the personality test that was not even close. I also know if you pay good money to go you will be sory.  It was a waste of my time and money!! if your just getting into business and your young maybe it would be a little useful. If you have been in business for 50 years like me, then don't bother with this  class, you know it already. trust yourself, not a fool like bill!
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for this book, I felt a review for this was quite necessary. I am a beginner when it comes to photography, (as far as years of experience) although going to several classes has made me realize I am in a slightly higher category. This book was a little disappointing in my opinion. I don't know what I was expecting but from all of the high ratings for this book I couldn't help but be disappointed.  This really makes me wish I had gone to a local bookstore first and thumbed through the sections to determine which - if any - would be relevant for me. I didn't actually learn much until i got to nearly the end of the book in the sections that talk about metering off of the sky or reflections and when and how to adjust your exposures with those settings. The rest of the book was very basic and I guess it has a lot to do with what I've already read. I am not going to put in a shameless plug here and name other books, but most of all he has talked about can be learned in other non one-dimensional books. If this is an update, then for one, the images in the book need to be updated as well. I was not impressed by the content nor of the images. Not many pictures are in this book that make me feel like I want to go out and try to create/replicate an image like the ones illustrated. I understand the authors approach of not having only "one" exposure and the necessity to be creative, however, I think it was more beneficial for me to learn correct exposures before learning to let the creative side come out. Besides, if you don't know the correct exposures then I think you don't have the necessary know-how to know what to change to be creative. Were my expectations too high? I don't think so. Can this book be helpful for many others? Of course. I just wasn't for me. I will keep it and maybe read it again to try to uncover some things that I may not have picked up before but to be honest, I had a certain feeling of emptiness once I completed reading it. Hopefully your experience will be better than mine.
3977870
why did I purchase this.....ask yourself why do I need this? I was so embarrassed by this this purchase I gave it away!
1296391
I borrowed this from KU and found much to consider.  The last section with ideas for promotion was nearly all Greek to me (my total lack of knowledge of social media dooms my forays into self-publishing, unfortunately) but would, I'm sure, be helpful to those more savvy than I.  His chapter on writing a novella in a 24-hour marathon has me planning to put the earplugs in and ignore my family and livestock for a full day, very soon!  I may just plunk down the money (currently .99) in order to have this as a reference in the future.  Lots of thought-provoking ideas are thrown out for us to ponder.  Definitely worth borrowing and considering as a purchase.
UPDATE: I did buy it so I could have it permanently!
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This is just another book amoung many that is long on talk and short on "walk".

Stories abound that push my sense of belief to the max.  "A knife was literally held to my throat".  Seriously?  And you came back the next day?  To a job where you would be PHYSICALLY THREATENED over job assignments?

Yet a few pages later, you're spewing powdered doughnut over your blue suit, having climbed the corporate ranks by:
  a. p*ssing off everyone, including your boss
  b. walking out on assignments (but not the job).
  c. not doing your job well. (This incident I'm referring to is when you threatened to fire someone as option 3)

Speaking of firing someone, how is it that you didn't catch heck for the incident?  If it was important enough to tell someone you were ready to fire them, it MUST have been something important, yet you are merely disappointed in the fact that you didn't follow up on the matter.

Didn't anyone chew you out?

Al in all, it feels like another *management* book.  A lot of pages of 'blah-blah', and not many moments of 'ah-hah !'.
289600
I sure wish I didn't need this book.  I wish I wasn't filling it out or living some of the stories.  But I am, and I get to use this and infrequently it is helping me not feel like a total failure, or a rage monster ready to rip and tear.  I don't agree with a lot of the "worksheets" being a help, but some of them are, so I guess not everything is about me, eh?

Without a doubt if you are thinking of this book, you know why, and you will benefit from it.  Go ahead and do it sooner rather than later.
114061
Blah, Blah, Blah....this book doesn't even get to the core of the help one is seeking when buying this type of book until Chapter 5 and there are only 9 chapters in the book! There is a lot of repetition.  Although the price isn't bad for this type of book, it could have easily been written up in a one page checklist of all the things to do and not do.  A far better resource for helping you turn your dissertation into a book is: Revising Your Dissertation; Advice From Leading Editors, Edited by Beth Luey.  What Germano takes in 9 chapters to cover, Luey's book covers it in the first chapter alone and then continues to give you much more practical advice.

On another note, although I know this wasn't intentional, it surprised me to find that each time Germano used the third person, he often chose "she/her/herself" instead of using both (himself/herself).  This caught my attention early on in the book because everytime the author described the author of the dissertation trying to turn it into a book, he referred to the writer as a "she" and too often the mistakes that "She" made along the way in submitting "her" non-revised disseration.  Not until the end of the book Page 115 do you finally see Germano use the term "he/himself in combination with "her/herself" and in that instance it was a positive praise..."every dissertation writer should strive to be the hero of her or his own work..." I just found it interesting that the whole book saw the dissertation writer as a "She" and often making mistakes, and finally when reaching the end, the success is given to both the "He and She" or the "He" alone.  I am surprised that the editor of this book didn't catch that...I suppose both were not thinking about their audience enough!

Anyways, its a fine book if you want to get your feet wet but there are better books out there that will give you the same advice but with more direction and less talk...and one positive note, even Germano, himself indicates further resources to turn to at the end of his book, including Luey's book.
653808
Because I tend to use too many cliches, what I was searching high and low for was book that didn't necessarily explain the meanings and origins of cliches  as much as aiding  me in finding  the proper word to use in order to avoid them. This is  not that book. However; in my vocabulary, I now have more cliches than I can shake a stick at. Any suggestions?
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I made an unfortunate decision about 4 months ago. I bought this book.

I bought a simple book from Jeremy Schoemaker and since then my personal information has been sold to telemarketers across North America. As part of the sales process, my personal and business contact information was collected. Almost immediately, I began to receive phone calls. Initially, offers for a "free consultation" with someone from Shoemoney. When I made it clear that I wasn't interested in any consultations my contact information was sold. And sold. And sold.

Four months of nearly daily telemarketing calls offering me "work at home money making opportunities".

Today, New Years Eve, at 10:00 am, I received yet another call. I've had enough.

At first, I asked to be removed from the call lists. The calls kept coming. Then I would hang up. They calls kept coming. Now I answer and let them talk, but I don't speak. I have no idea how to stop the calls.

They even called me during my family Christmas dinner!

Is the book any good? Does it matter? Is anything worth this level of harassment?

I don't think so.
3102611
I really don't hate it, I didn't read it!  I read the reviews, and the biggest complaint was 'it is NOT a stand alone' story!  Cliffhanger!!!  OH Gawd!!!  I don't care how good the story is ~ if it leaves me hanging ~ and I would be forced to buy another book (which would probably be another cliffhanger) in order to find out what happened!  I'm not interested.  What is wrong with these lazy authors now??  Are they just too lazy to finish the story, or do they just run out of ideas and don't know how to finish it until they think about it ~ for another book, or is it just a ploy to sell multiple books (and more money) instead of writing one really good and complete book?  How sad!  There was a time where ALL stories were stand alone!  How I long for those stories, and that time!
202123
This book was highly recommended to me several months ago.  I'm in a situation that I find myself "trapped", mainly due to my own fears-not to mention anytime I try & stick-up for myself, or get myself out of this mess-and FREE to live my own life again;  I get screamed at by everyone else in the family, telling me that "they're not going to be around much longer-show some respect and humor them a few more years".  "Them"= my elderly parents whom I've "humored" for over 10 years now-not allowed to get a job, have friends-basically no life.  Long story, obviously, but in the very small town I live in, there's no counsellors who accept my insurance-not to mention what would happen if I dared "take it outside the family".  I'm currently saving up money out of their sight, but once I declare my "freedom", me and my grown children will be disowned completely-and I'm having a hard time with that.
Anyways, I was told this book would be a good idea to read,  The problem is the type-it's so small I can barely see it.  Is this book available anywhere in an Audi version, or larger type/font?
615158
Dear bookseller:

Sorry I'm not actually reviewing this book. I can't you see, because I haven't read it yet. Because you haven't given it to me yet.

I've tried everything I can think of to get you to give me this book (without actually PAYING you for it, natch). But you keep putting me off. I'm not sure I believe your lame excuses anymore.

You won't give me your address because you don't accept walk-ins? Oh, Really?

You don't ship without payment first? So I'm supposed to trust YOU, even though you don't trust ME. I see how it works.

I offered to ship you ten valuable first-edition books in exchange for this one, but you balked. How can you pass up a deal that is so clearly too good to be true?!

Obviously, you want to get rid of this book, or you wouldn't have listed it. I think you ought to just drop it in the mail and send it off to me because you know in your heart of hearts that is how it is supposed to work!
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I wrote a review about the Kindle version of La Ruina's book, and days later, it was removed.  Why?

I don't feel like getting as lengthy as I did before, but in a nutshell, I wasn't too impressed with the book.  A lot of the book promotes behavior that is dishonest, misleading, and/or manipulative.

If you are a "direct" type of guy, this book is not for you.

Edited to say:  Mr. La Ruina said that he did not have my initial removed, so I have restored my original "three star" rating to his book.  Basically, if you an "indirect" type guy, you'll like the book.  If you are a more "direct" type guy, this book will be disappointing to you.  That was my original review, in a nutshell.
4158682
So I found this book in the lounge where I work and flipped through during lunch. If you get past the myriad of typos, the flawed/non-existent logic, and the fact it's not funny, there's pretty much nothing left but a nice looking cover.

Still, even though I don't think of myself as an idiot, I took the book to heart. So days later when I ended up in the ER and had a very gorgeous doctor who seemed wildly attentive considering I only had a sprained ankle (he asked me for my number) and he didn't call, I assumed, "Hey, he's just not into me." and went about my life.

Flash forward six months later, I get a call from a number I don't recognize. I let it go to voice mail purgatory only to discover it's my "He's just not into you" Doctor saying, "I've been waiting the required six months before I could call you. I practiced calling you every day."

Hmmm, you think he's just not into me? or maybe this worked out because I played by the "rules". who knows? It's all hooey.