Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I honestly do not understand the book's high rating and appeal. After reading through it near two times, afraid I perhaps missed some important details the first time through somehow, I'm pretty shocked at how well the book is performing critically. There is a large amount of enthusiasm in the book, but very little practicality behind it. One great example of this is how the book has several mini-stories about random people who "made money successfully." One of them is about a woman who needed a lot of money quick. She went into the attic and discovered a stock/bond paper or something that turns out to be worth exactly the amount of money she needed! Amazing, the moral of the story: YOU CAN MAKE MONEY LIKE THIS TOO! See the problem? The book is littered with stuff like this, over and over. The author spends a large amount of time writing how she had to come up with a large amount of money for some seminars on how to make money. Something like $80,000 for a seminar. Which she ends up borrowing from someone. By the end, I'm more confused than when I started. Was the lesson to not be afraid to ask people for money? Were there tips on how to ask people for money? Was it a recommendation to not be afraid to spend large amounts of money that isn't yours on seminars? That's nearly 1/2 a year's salary for someone with a technical job like myself, well above the average person. No one in the right mind set should follow that advice. Never put yourself in crippling debt, with a friend or family member no less, for something like a ~seminar~. What exactly the author benefited out of that kind of money being spent on a ~seminar~ was totally lost on me. More so on the second time I read those parts. Who is this book for? I guess it's for people who think their money problems go away by spending more money than they have on seminars and feel-better-about-yourself guides. What does this book do? I guess at the end of it, you get you into the mind set that you could get away with robbery for silly reasons (like asking your friend/family for a stupid amount of money on loan). I'm guessing that is the point of the title. What does this book not do? Not a drop of practical advice on making money and actually being badass at making money. Just makes you think it, somehow?