Lots of advice-like books are like this. I remember a co-worker who had suddenly become very taken with a certain financial management book series. He asked eve

Lots of advice-like books are like this. I remember a co-worker who had suddenly become very taken with a certain financial management book series. He asked everybody around him to read them or listen to the audio book version. I finally relented to one of the audio books (I had a long commute so why not?). It was hour upon hour upon hour of clearly made up stories about made up people and chapter after chapter of what basically amounted to "to save money, spend less than you make".