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Title: How to Get Even Without Going to Jail by Betty Jacobs, Maxx Robinson, Floyd Benson ISBN: 1-891014-09-9 Publisher: Cardinal Books Pub. Date: April, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2 (1 review)
Rating: 2
Summary: Looking for revenge? Don't judge this book by its cover.
Comment: This is NOT a revenge book. The title is completely misleading.
This is NOT a book that you want to waste time reading if - uh - well, if you have a purely theoretical interest in how you would go about getting even with someone without going to jail.
My edition has, on its cover, not only the misleading title, but a cartoon of a man in prison stripes sitting on a bunk with the standard crossed red-circle (signifying "No") drawn through him, and I have no idea what this cartoon is doing here.
This book is pretty much a partial story of the life of a man, the author Maxx Robinson, born in 1915 and some of the grifter-like scams that he used in order to get an honorable discharge from the military and to make a buck as an entrepreneur.
I could hardly care less, and I should really give this book only one star for being something completely different from what was promised.
I'll throw out another star because, for a short time, it held a modicum of interest for me. Robinson has some interesting stories about life in the Depression and during Prohibition and of his own World War II experiences, though none of the latter involved combat.
Also, there's some interesting tidbits here about life in Southern California during the post-war land boom. I pretty much lost interest in the book after that, and so will the average reader unless he has a burning passion to acquire as much information as possible on how to build and operate a sawmill.
I AM mildly grateful for the author's honesty, and there is no reason to doubt that honesty. His schemes won't upset the average reader, but he also has a frank portrayal of how he engaged in a racially-motivated and otherwise unprovoked attack on a zoot-suited Mexican on the streets of Anaheim following the post-victory celebration of the war's end.
The book should operate as a good antidote to Brokaw-induced nostalgia about the graciousness of the Depression/WW2 generation and the selfless patriotic service that the people of that generation rendered to the nation.
Yeah, yeah, yeah - but even setting aside the racial animus which was a dark side sometimes shown by that generation, it's pretty clear from Robinson's descriptions of his own corner-cutting schemes, and the settings in which they took place, that these schemes were not isolated incidents from this era but were simply his own renditions of what many people were doing at this time to get ahead or stay ahead.
Robinson provides little evidence of the existence of a generation of Good Samaritans who set aside all self-interest and internal differences and put their common shoulders to the wheel in order to pull the nation out of crisis.
I still think that we are living in the worst of times today, but it's clear from Robinson's account that the Depression/WW2 generation was not THAT much different from succeeding generations in terms of self-centeredness and moral shortcomings.
And for that admission, I suppose that the reader owes Robinson some gratitude. In tribute to this, I have given him the extra star, and I'll even refrain from seeking revenge for having received something other than what I thought I was paying for.
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Title: High-Tech Harassment: How to Get Even With Anyone Anytime by Scott R. French ISBN: 1569801134 Publisher: Barricade Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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