Review: Too Much of a Good Thing
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 07 8, 2012
I love parodies. And I've been writing and selling ebooks since they were invented, so I recognized the people being made fun of. I'm even guilty of some of the mischevious acts the author jokes about in this book. All things considered, I thought I'd love this book. I didn't.The author goes on too long about the same things. He rehashes. And rehashes. And rehashes. He gives six examples when one would have sufficed. In short, if this book were a third (or fourth) its length, I would probably have loved it. But hearing "I'm smarter than you" a gazillion times starts to feel like an insult, no matter how funny it was intended to be. Self-deprecating humor is the only kind that really holds up in a long monologue (which is this book's essence), and insult humor needs to be kept to a minimum. Unfortunately the author got it backward and lost me. And my $2.99.