mabechel 's review for:

The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work: A Practical Guide from the Country's Foremost Relationship Expert by John Gottman

4.0

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Overall, I quite like the content of this book, but the tone is hard to stomach. It's definitely worth the read - it gives voice and vocabulary to many abstract aspects of relationships as well as practical approaches to unpacking them. However, the author just gives me the "used car salesman" vibe - sounds a bit self absorbed and like he's always trying to sell something. I feel like he basically took a seminar/workshop and made the transcript into a book and the result is a somewhat grating wrapping around an actually quite nice present.

TLDR: author's tone is annoying, but the content is still solid and worth the read.