What I find tiresome are entire books dedicated to a diet that can be described in a few pages. In Ferriss's book, this diet described in a few pages, with the

What I find tiresome are entire books dedicated to a diet that can be described in a few pages. In Ferriss's book, this diet described in a few pages, with the usual self-help testimonials to fill it out to a whole chapter. He put out the same diet in a blog post a few years ago: http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2007/04/06/how-to-lose-20-lbs-of-fat-in-30-days-without-doing-any-exercise/ http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2007/04/06/how-to-lose-... so at this point I don't begrudge him putting it in a book chapter. His first book was kind of ridiculous IMHO, but I liked this one. You can cherry pick silly bits out of it like the reviewer did, but a lot of it is pretty reasonable and does motivate people to actually try stuff.