leighmowzer 's review for:

The Pursuit of Happyness by Chris Gardner

2.0

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Another book that I consider not as advertised... or maybe just not as Hollywood advertised it to be. The trailer for the movie shows a man and his son (who looks to be around 5) to be living on the streets barely making it and then the man starts gets some kind of break on Wall Street and their luck changes so to speak. Chris Gardener doesn't have his son until about 3/4 of the way thru the book and even then, that's not quite how the story goes. Not to mention the rest of the book is mostly about his douche canoe step dad and then about himself being a bit of a douche canoe. I give this a two star because he can write fairly well.