Review: A cautionary tale
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 17, 2011
As you might expect from the product description and Amazon review, this short piece (33 pages on the smallest font setting on my Kindle 3) is not a ringing endorsement of Amway or multi-level marketing. Neither, though, is it a strong attack. Rather, by interspersing a personal family story with modern-day interviews and even a few facts and figures, German manages to leave you wondering what exactly went wrong. Was it his father's lack of singlemindedness for making money? Was it a greedy "upline" more concerned about selling motivational tapes than building a real business? Was it just bad luck in a business where many people actually lose money, but not nearly the amounts his father did? Whatever the case, "My Father's Dream" is a compelling cautionary tale for those considering or already involved in Amway or Quixtar. And for the rest of us, it's an interesting take on the American dream.Well formatted for the Kindle and well edited for a Kindle Single - I only noticed one typo.