Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I'll admit it: I bought this book because I thought it had been written by Robert Greene. He has written several excellent books that share the same jacket design. The author of this work copied that motif, and clearly it worked for him. I think that is deceptive, however, and it put me in a negative frame of mind before I started reading. The author has the start of a good book here but nowhere near enough to publish it as-is. The first 20 pages are (anonymous) reviews of his other books. The last half of the book consists of blank worksheets for writing a speech. Thus, less than half of the book is actually his writing. Given that the book is self-published and therefore not professionally typeset, there are actually fewer words than you would normally find. This idea might have worked as a blog page but not as a book that people actually pay for, and certainly not $20. I returned mine and got a refund.