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First, please read the Editorial Reviews on amazon.com, as well as the forty-two sample pages.
Of course, books which MAKE A GOOD LIFE BETTER are nearly-always appreciated. But don't we welcome more those which RELIEVE us of EXISTING SUFFERING? This is one such book.
Nearly two decades since first reading it, and my well-browsed now-worn copy still gets an occasional check. Finally decided to get an audio copy as well.
No, it won't make a futile attempt to convince you to look at the same matters with a different nearly-SPIRITUAL CHANGE-OF-PERSPECTIVE. (For the already-magnanimous among us who still struggle coping with difficult people, we've tried that, too--been there, done that, even bought the T-shirt). It simply explains what is happening both inside such people and around them, in a tone so casual, that the idea is absorbed nearly-unnoticed. And from knowing the enemy :-p, comes knowing what to do--only then are the ideas on how to handle them henceforth brought in.
If the lighter feeling one gets after reading the book is any indication, then it must work! At the very least, it makes pains-in-the-derriere people bearable. It just might save your sanity.
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