![]() ![]() But after a couple of pages I knew why: it's brilliantly written. It's so filled with sarcasm that at first I wondered how the manuscript was approved. ![]() ![]() I LOVED IT! The book starts as a satire on the publishing industry with lots of (in)jokes at the expense of editors. What's even more of a surprise: it seems to work! Suddenly there’s a shift in the country people actually manage to stop smoking, they make money, they lose weight. To Edwin's relieve the book is a best-seller. It offers solutions for EVERYTHING: how to stop smoking, become rich, lose weight, how to have a phenomenal sex life, etcetera. The author promisses it will be the self-improvement book that will make every other book redundant. When he once again fucks up at a meeting and needs to impress his boss fast, he desperately mentions a massive manuscript he had already dismissed as worthless. His job is to go through manuscripts and find the next big thing, or at least the book that will make the publisher some money. Summary: Edwin de Valu is an editor for self-help books. Publisher: Canongate, 2003 (*Penguin 2001) Title: Happiness™ (originally published as 'Generica*') ![]()
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