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Title: I Moved Your Cheese by Darrel Bristow-Bovey ISBN: 1-84330-165-2 Publisher: New Holland Pub Ltd Pub. Date: January, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $8.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4 (6 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Makes you laugh - that helps, doesn't it? :-)
Comment: Despite repeated claims that "...this is not a self-help book", Darrel Bristow-Bovey has come up with what is probably the most universally applicable self-help book in existence today.

From start to finish, this book is a riot. The moment you read his acknowledgements and a list of prospective books yet to be written by him, you know that the author isn't planning on pulling any punches. Continuously parodying Spencer Johnson's altogether more serious "Who Moved My Cheese?", this book takes things even further by poking fun at almost every self-help book written, and takes a few swipes at social icons like Oprah for good measure. The irreverent, even farcical tone of the book is highlighted when the author speaks about patenting "Osmatix", a revolutionary chemical with which the pages have been treated so that it helps you even if you don't read it.

But once you accept the fact that this is a book meant to make you laugh, and NOT to make too much conventional sense, you'll enjoy every bit of it. Yeah, even if you like self-help books. Bristow-Bovey's acidic humor drips off every sentence, and hardly a page goes by without you having to catch your breath after busting our guts laughing. You'll shake your head in amazement at his pseudo-scientific dissection of self-help books as a breed, and itch to dispense bits of advise to friends (and enemies) about "embracing their inner ostrich egg".

But the irony of it all is that in writing a book to dash your faith in the self-help genre, Bristow-Bovey has delivered a book that delivers the simplest self-help formula of them all - Read something funny, laugh aloud, feel better.

Try it. Heck, it works... and it involves a lot less work than anything else of its kind on the racks. Take a bow, Darrel.

Rating: 5
Summary: Faking Anything
Comment: This book made me feel better about myself (It made me laughed too!). Growing up was painful and like every teenager, I wanted acceptance: I wanted my peers to like me and to be popular girl in school. After reading this book, I realised Bristow-Bovey was right about a lot of things and the other self-help books. You won't learn much from this book, only to accept yourself as who you already are and actually stand proud for it.

Rating: 5
Summary: If you've ever had a self-help book given to you
Comment: The title is a parody of "Who Moved My Cheese?" by Spencer Johnson, but it doesn't stop at the title. Bristow-Bovey takes attack at self-help books with this work, which provides so much humor that every time you see someone reading a self-help book, you won't be able to stop chuckling. There is a story in the book about embrasing your inner ostrich egg, and it's absolutely precious. It encapsulates everything terrible about self-help books, but is so witty and well-crafted that I'm sure there's someone out there who took notes and is telling himself right now that he needs to embrace his inner ostrich egg.

If someone ever had the nerve to give you a self-help book, you should get them this book in return.

This book is sort of hard to get ahold of, so in spite of the warnings that Osmatix (a patented chemical treatment that allows you to benefit from the book without even reading it) is for one person only, I was forced to lend this book out. You won't read another self-help book after this.