How Not to Get Rich: Or Why Being Bad Off Isn't So Bad

by Robert Sullivan

Book Overview

In the tradition of James Thurber and E.B. White, How Not to Get Rich is a timely spoof filled with witty instructions on how to avoid the perilous path toward millionaire-dom. "Large numbers of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 159691002X
• ISBN13: 9781596910027
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 95 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 7.6"

Customer Reviews

Relaxing and Enlightening at the same time!!

This book is engaging and easy-to-understand. I found the information helpful in liberating me from my busy, go-go lifestyle. The message of the book is simply to relax your resistance to life. Stop trying to push against the river of life - and just flow with ease... Definitely worth a read; but make sure when you read the book - that you find a nice quiet corner (free of distractions) - where you can focus your attention and slowly digest the nuggets of wisdom this book has to offer. Thank you and I hope you ENJOY!!

Life of slack

If you want to live the life of slack of your dreams like me, this book is a good starting point. Learn how not to make money, not have ambition (except to be a slacker), and how to not impress people! It seemed like a pretty good book, but I lacked the motivation to finish it. Sigh....

A work of Genius

My wife recently gave me Sullivan's "Rats" as a birthday present. (No, she doesn't think I'm a rodent--at least I don't think she does--but she knows I'm interested in books about cities.) I loved "Rats"--a truly great read--and ran out to get Sullivan's "Meadowlands." Another great book! Sullivan is learned AND funny--a pretty rare combination, and "How Not To Get Rich" is equal parts wise and hilarious. This is one brilliant writer. His bio says he's also an editor at VOGUE magazine. Go figure. Any how, I think this guy has a Pulitzer Prize in his future.

hilarious, fierce, and weirdly uplifting

I have heard amazing stories about this author, who also wrote "Rats" and "A Whale Hunt" and "The Meadowlands." Once, it is said, as a protest against the SEC, he lay all afternoon on the couch of a friend and counted to twenty-four thousand by ones in a snarling voice. Anyway, this book is of course a very funny satire of how-to-get-rich books, and an eloquent warning against the ultimate metaphysical emptiness of the peculiarly American yearning for massive wealth. But it's also, à la Thoreau's Walden but far less preachy, a material and spiritual self-help book, an old-fashioned philosophical treatise on the good life. It made me feel pretty okay about certain important life decisions I've made that have had nothing at all to do with making money. Then I looked at my credit card bill.