Guru Ratings
Ellen Fein and Sherrie Schneider
Bad.
Remember my ratings criteria. I’m not judging these gurus on “global” or moral values, but very specific criteria. Many of my favorite books would be rated “bad” by my criteria for self-help (probably, because they are not self-help books). My ratings don’t reflect how well an author met his own goals, but how well they met my criteria for useful, accurate self-help.
The Rules (1995)
A strange collection of arbitrary dating rules like:
- Don’t accept a Saturday night date after Wednesday.
- End phone calls after 10 minutes.
- Do not date men for more than two years.
- Don’t call him.
I hope nobody I care about ever has to date a Rules woman.
The absurdity continues in The Rules II, The Rules for Online Dating, and The Rules of Marriage.