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If you're not predisposed to liking Taylor, like I am, you'll probably hate this book. I found it frustrating at best. Within the text, Taylor remarks that he wrote the book in two weeks--and that's exactly how it reads, like it was written in two weeks, with very little editing. For instance, if you took out every instance where Taylor uses the phrase "at the end of the day," the book would probably be at least six pages shorter. Taylor also gets overly involved in trying to throw out clever turns of phrase in between the cliches. Taylor points out that this isn't a tell-all book, which will probably come in later decades and be a much more interesting book. When Taylor is telling personal stories, things are much more engaging. Then he slides back into the 'organizing principle' of the book--that the 7 Deadly Sins are neither deadly nor sins--and it sounds like a drunken old man at a bar running his mouth (at length) about his bland philosophy of life. There are also points where Taylor says things that are demonstrably false and easy to disprove with a quick Internet search, like his conention that murder rates have gone up because of the absence of the death penalty (murder rates have not been going up, nor has the death penalty been outlawed--Taylor might also want to look into issues of false convictions in death penalty cases). Overall, the book just seems like Taylor was offered a book contract and told to turn in 200+ pages. He did that and decided filling those pages with a first draft was enough.