Interesting ideas, lousy presentation. In some chapters, Beck gives you great information ("Global Warming" and "Opinion Polls" are two such good ones), but a few of them are just inane ("Choosing the Right Movie" and "Parenting," for example). Beck's laid-back writing style will be considered a breath of fresh air by people who don't like to read, and overly lazy and simpistic by people who do. The big problem for me, though, is that I just don't care much for Beck's sense of humor here. Calling telephones "ringy-dingy thingy-whingies" may be funny if Michael Scott does it on The Office, but that's about it. I would guess that roughly one-third of the book is composed of bad jokes. To make matters worse, I listened to the CD and had to suffer through Beck's "funny" voices in addition to the bad joke-telling. Also, don't expect much from Beck's "Real Solutions"--they usually amount to little more than basic common sense. Still, there were some good things I got out of it, so I can't really call it a bad book. I just prefer his less jokey material, like Common Sense.