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A review by ignisda
Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul by Jack Canfield
3.0
I'm gonna say that I have a love/hate relationship with this book.
I love this book because it is written by Jack Canfield, and he is one of my favorite people in the world. He is an intellectual, far sighted and understanding person- basically an ideal role model. In addition to this, some of the stories ARE very moving. My eyes would be filled with tears of sympathy or my heart would fill with joy when some character did triumph through difficult times.
Which brings me to why I hate this book too- most of the stories are not as moving as the book promises. I know that I should not count a book's foreword to be moving as a promise, but since it is written by Jack Canfield, I had very high hopes with it- too much probably.
Concluding, I recommend you read this book if you have a lot of free time on your hand, but I would not count on it as my 'life-book' which would guide me through ups and downs in life (as the foreword suggests). That being said, it is an interesting book and mostly relatable if you happen to be a teenager (or were one once).
I love this book because it is written by Jack Canfield, and he is one of my favorite people in the world. He is an intellectual, far sighted and understanding person- basically an ideal role model. In addition to this, some of the stories ARE very moving. My eyes would be filled with tears of sympathy or my heart would fill with joy when some character did triumph through difficult times.
Which brings me to why I hate this book too- most of the stories are not as moving as the book promises. I know that I should not count a book's foreword to be moving as a promise, but since it is written by Jack Canfield, I had very high hopes with it- too much probably.
Concluding, I recommend you read this book if you have a lot of free time on your hand, but I would not count on it as my 'life-book' which would guide me through ups and downs in life (as the foreword suggests). That being said, it is an interesting book and mostly relatable if you happen to be a teenager (or were one once).