CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE SOUL IS FULL OF LIES...

since it is the hols, i thought what the heck, why not try n read it right? it did say on the cover "101 stories to open the heart and to rekindle to spirit".besides, it wasnt so thick anyway. but when i read it, i thought okay this is not bad, but the longer i read it, i started to find some of the stories are way to imaginative, and they would never really work in real life. fro example, " you need 4 hugs a day for survival, 8 for maintenance, n 12 for growth" ??????? what the hell does these guys think we are? some kind of freak with nothing better tyo do than to go around looking for hugs? news flash: we're only human you know? we have jobs, responsibilities, work to do, chores... what kind of a person besides a beggar has that kind of tie to get 24 hugs a day? of course you're most probably thinking just keep hugging your lover rite? but what about everybody else who aren't so lucky huh? and what about kids? it'll be considered sexual harrasment to kids. and whats the point of getting so many hugs a day when you know most people would think you're either crazy or drunk? and u most probably get ingenuine ones...moving on, the whole book basicly talks about how love is all you need to have to a successful marriage and relationship with friends and kids n family, blah blah blah. what a bunch of cow crap. i've heard ignorant parents giving better lies. do they think their readers are pre-schoolers and babies? everybody who's been married can tell you that it takes a lot more than love to keep a marriage going, coz the love, the passion and the fire (not to mention the number of times they have sex) usually dies down after the first few years. this book is basically telling people to just get married just because they like each other. word of advice: if you're not sure you love him/her, don't get married, if he/she really loves you, they will understand and wait for the right time for you. and, instead of listening to this stupid book and love your kids, i have an easier and more productive solution: just ignore your kids, leave them alone, they like it that way, just give them money and a room, plus all the basic necessities (good food, big room, handphone, tv, computer, etc). that way, they will truely love you not for who you are, but at least they love you for all your money. yes, all we teenagers care about is money. that way, they cant wait to move out of the house while still loving you guys until the day you die, which gives you plenty of time to catch up on sex that you've missed out for the past 20 something years while you were raising them.i still have a lot of crap to blab about this book, but this is quickly getting very tiresome, so i think i'll just skip it all. anyway, even though this is a very stupid trick they're pulling on us, the readers, i have to admit the genius behind this international phenomenon, the authors themselves only write a small fraction of the book, most of the stories are sent in by readers around America, who unknowingly are helping the authors make millions of dollars worldwide. so basicly, they write them and send them in, they copy it and make millions. does this make sense to you? i think not! but still people dont seem to care whether they get any part of it or not, stupid fools! they just want to get their name in the book even though nobody really cares who wrote the stories in the first place.okay this si getting way too long, so i'll stop here, for now. until next time people. byebye