27. Chicken Soup for The Soul - Jack Canfield & Mark Victor Hansen
440 pages, Bought in Charity Shop
I am very happy to admit that I am a 38 year old man and I have recommended this book on many occasions and have lent it out to people on many occasions too.
In fact that's why I had to buy it again...someone never returned it and I can't remember who!
This book, and it's many, many other titles in the series, are like Marmite. [For those who don't know, Marmite is a yeast-based food spread which an equal number of people either love and despise. I am very much a member of the latter community who thinks Marmite should be killed with fire]
Anyhoo...Chicken Soup for The Soul is a collection of 101 stories that will cheer you up when you're sad and will restore your faith in humanity, simple as that! OK, maybe not
that simple but it's a book that is really worth a read, regardless of how cynical you may be.
Sometimes it's OK to enjoy a story that pulls at the heart-strings and maybe brings on a tear or two.
For the record, my favourite story in this book is the one about the teacher who got each member of a class to write something about each of their classmates on a sheet of paper. Oh man, the onion ninjas are everywhere when I read that one :)
Having said that, I haven't read any of the other titles in the series (which I just looked up online and discovered there's something like 200 of them so far!!!)
I give this book 5 "Campbell's Soups Cans" out of 5
