This book was a bit too “narrow minded” for me (I’m not sure I’ve found the right word yet). Too many references using “he” as the pronoun or “men/man” as the noun when referencing a person trying to accomplish something in an imaginary setting to drive the author’s point across. (I’m sure there’s a word for this, but you get my point.) For this reason, it kind of lost me in the last third of the book because I was noticing it every time and becoming irritated rather than focusing on the real messages of the book.

I get that this was 16 years ago, but that still doesn’t excuse it for me. Sorry not sorry. It takes every type of person for life to be life.

I thought I’d changed my opinion a bit when he was opening a passage about giving advice to his daughter (and “young ladies everywhere”). Thinking this was going to be something inspirational from a father to his daughter, I was ready to reevaluate my entire opinion. But the advice was about “men who are romantically interested in you”. I’m just going to leave that at that.

Look, I understand it’s advice from a father to his daughter, and that it’s his own thoughts and feelings. But at the same time, for a man with a daughter, it seemed a little ignorant to me to other real challenges she was going to face in life.

HOWEVER, it was a cute read from someone with a very positive outlook on life regardless of the context it was written in. I liked the collection of small stories throughout his life that he used to develop his points. And there were a few points that were relatable, so thumbs up there.