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Summary: Go ahead... DON'T buy the book...
Review: ...but you won't know what you're missing.This book is rad! It's a fun, quick read - the advice is sound and insightful - and come on, it's Rich Hatch, the guy from SURVIVOR - even if you've never seen the show it's just too much fun to have a copy lying around. And if the kitsch value isn't enough... it really IS well written. The numbered "secrets" are what make this book stand head and shoulders above everything else in its class. (And the baby pictures don't hurt either.)
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Summary: A Must Read for Survivor and Rich Hatch Fans
Review: 101 Survival Secrets is a great, entertaining read--one that will surely appeal to fans of both Survivor and its million dollar winner, Rich Hatch. Part autobiography, part self-help, and part photo-log, this book shows you exactly how Rich Hatch went from being a miserable 360 pound loser to a trim, happy millionaire, and offers 101 invaluable tips to help you achieve this same sort of happiness yourself. The book is well designed and easy to follow, and surprisingly well written to boot. Rich's advice is solid. Take it. Highly recommended.
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Summary: Better Deal Than Therapy
Review: Buy this book!! I never saw Survivor and could care less about Hatch. However, his message of self-determination and individual responsibility is easily worth more than the $10 price tag. There are too many self-help gurus asking people to fork over big bucks for sappy messages aimed at making the guru rich. The best advice is often free, if not cheap and this book has it in abundance. If you want change, change yourself. That's Hatch's message--loud, clear and, best of all, short. After all why spend time reading a long complicated book when you can be busy applying its principles to making your life better. Sure many things are easier said than done. But when you think about it, the choice is still always simple--suffer your wretched life or change it. Get yours before death gets you. That's the point of this book...and I can dig it.
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Summary: Sorry Richard
Review: Despite its 120-plus pages, this book takes about 15 minutes to read. While it offers a handful of ideas worth considering, it isn't worth the cover price. If Richard Hatch were not the winner of the first Survivor, this work would have been published on a personal Web site somewhere and that would be all. If you want it, buy it used.
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Summary: 1 Survival Secret For Rich
Review: DON'T QUIT YOUR DAY JOB! Rich Hatch ought to be grateful he won the million dollars on the hit TV show, Survivor, because given this piece of drivel he calls a book, his future as a writer is bleak at best. He's lucky they never had an immunity challenge that involved writing or editing because he surely would have been the first one voted off the island. I'd rather read a book by Sonja (the first Survivor castaway voted off the island), whose inspiring story of surviving cancer would offer more valuable lessons than this delusional, muddled, mess of a pamphlet by a self important "know it all".
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Summary: I hope he sells a MILLION books.....
Review: Fast read, and I actually had to think about what he said! Makes you reflect on yourself. I hope he sells a million books. If more people lived this way, life would be better for a whole bunch of folks. To all the people who just go through the motions in love, life, and work; who whine about not being where they want to be; who think they have to "take" what's handed to them, this is the book to get out of your pathetic rut--DO IT. I have been well on my way for a while, and this book just helps affirm that I am not crazy for wanting to challenge myself to higher levels. Hats off to Mr. Hatch for saying and doing what everyone wants to do but doesn't have the guts to do. PS: I saw 15 minutes of Survivor....what a bunch of hype. But Hatch used it to get to where he wants to be....good for him!! He talks about selfishness...I am all for that. It's a short life. Live it how YOU want to live it.
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Summary: self promoting
Review: From what I hear the attempt to get this book published presented more of a challenge to Richard Hatch than the competition on Pulau Tiga. What is amazing is that the final product is slimmed down so much. "101 Survival Secrets" is part self-help book, part autobiography, and part recollections from life on the island and I am stunned this adds up to only 128 pages. Ultimately I think Rich's effort suffers from two problems. The first is that like virtually all self-help gurus Rich's style is oral rather than written. The guy is a talker rather than a writer and even as I read the book I found myself thinking of how he would sound saying these things. The second is that Rich does not deal just with ideas, but with adapting those ideas to people. Writing for a nameless, abstract audience is not what he does for a living; he works a crowd. People like Rich succeed TALKING to PEOPLE (Remember, this is the guy who forged a "friendship" with the world's crustiest old homophobe). So the bottom line is that this is not Rich at his best to be sure. His aphorisms and advice do not smack of anything new, but then such things never do. They simply rehash (rehatch in this case?) things we already know in more palatable forms. At best this is the snake oil of Rich the Snake in concentrate form; add real people into the mix and it would probably be a lot more effective. In the final analysis virtually all readers of "101 Survival Secrets" will be disappointed by Rich's book because they really did expect to a whole lot more. It seems that once our million-dollar boy went out looking for fish and decided we did not deserve his best effort. But given the current group of vicious idiots down under in the outback, the man has obviously taught some people some things.
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Summary: More than you ever wanted to know about Richard Hatch
Review: From what I hear the attempt to get this book published presented more of a challenge to Richard Hatch than the competition on Pulau Tiga. What is amazing is that the final product is slimmed down so much. "101 Survival Secrets" is part self-help book, part autobiography, and part recollections from life on the island and I am stunned this adds up to only 128 pages. Ultimately I think Rich's effort suffers from two problems. The first is that like virtually all self-help gurus Rich's style is oral rather than written. The guy is a talker rather than a writer and even as I read the book I found myself thinking of how he would sound saying these things. The second is that Rich does not deal just with ideas, but with adapting those ideas to people. Writing for a nameless, abstract audience is not what he does for a living; he works a crowd. People like Rich succeed TALKING to PEOPLE (Remember, this is the guy who forged a "friendship" with the world's crustiest old homophobe). So the bottom line is that this is not Rich at his best to be sure. His aphorisms and advice do not smack of anything new, but then such things never do. They simply rehash (rehatch in this case?) things we already know in more palatable forms. At best this is the snake oil of Rich the Snake in concentrate form; add real people into the mix and it would probably be a lot more effective. In the final analysis virtually all readers of "101 Survival Secrets" will be disappointed by Rich's book because they really did expect to a whole lot more. It seems that once our million-dollar boy went out looking for fish and decided we did not deserve his best effort. But given the current group of vicious idiots down under in the outback, the man has obviously taught some people some things.
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Summary: Clever, witty, and profound
Review: I know Rich. He's an honest, brilliant, and giving person and his book is not only a recap of his steps to success (that almost anyone can adopt) but it's also an inspiring read for corporate execs, volunteers, executive coaches, and middle managers - not to mention the mainstream John & Jane Doe. Worth more than its cover price, this is a must-read that's fun to review again and again.
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Summary: Bio at the beginning was the best part.
Review: I picked this up in the bookstore because I was amazed at what people will spend their hard-earned money on. Not to mention the unappealing cover. Really, if you are getting life advice from gameshow winners, you need all the advice you can get! I figure 2 to 3 stars for the advice, and the biography makes it a solid three stars. But, I was very interested in his short bio. I grew up in the same town, went to the same high school, and had some of the same teachers. It was very interesting to read another person's viewpoint on the area. Especially knowing more about him. I cannot tell you about the years afterward, but his description of the area and his treatment throughout school is very accurate. He is not exaggerating or making up anything there.
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