Product Description

The law of averages would suggest that at some point in your life someone has referred to you as "that idiot". The blast of negativity in this book hits hard with chapters such as "Your Good-for-nothing Friends", "Your Miserable Job" and "Life: What's the Use?"

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #869855 in Books
• Published on: 2000-03-24
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 240 pages

Customer Reviews

I laughed myself silly
honestly, this book did not change my life, but it made me laugh right out loud. my friend and i proceeded to read exerpts back and forth amidst gales of laughter. eventually we had a gathering around us, all of whom found immense humor in the book as well. you just have to buy it. it is full of fantastic bits of cynicism, that make you look at the real world just a little differently. the title says it all

What every paranoid knows his therapist is REALLY thinking!
One of the funniest books I've read in ages - full of the kind of humour usually reserved for the back of the classroom, this will let you into the hitherto secret world of your therapist's darker side - the side you KNOW is really lurking just beneath the surface. In your more paranoid moments, the advice may even have a disturbing ring of truth about it. Gems such as - "When your boss tells you to do things at work, I bet afterwards he smiles to himself and says 'I can make people do things.'" - simply cannot go unquestioned....!

An unhealthy joke stretched too far
The title of the book is the first of various 'negative thinking' suggestions, which are essentially the same smartarse joke repeated dozens of times. There are only a few such suggestions per page, representing terrible value for money. You could print out the text of the book legibly on a couple of sheets of A4 paper, and then throw them away.

Save your money. You can get a much more intelligent satire on negative thinking from Paul Watzlawick's "The Situation Is Hopeless, But Not Serious: The Pursuit of Unhappiness", which will demonstrate by comparison that not only is "You Are Worthless" an extremely dull book, it's almost certainly unhealthy.

Worthless indeed.