The Third Age: Six Principles for Personal Growth and Rejuvenation after Forty

Rating:
Summary: Depressing and Odd - Do NOT Input It
Review: This is the kind of book you would never buy in a bookstore. Flip through a few pages and see thin and brief "case studies," which frankly ring hollow and maybe aren't true. Advice given at the end of each chapter is flip and insulting: "develop a sense of humor" "take better care of yourself physically" and so on. Also, there are some really far-fetched points the author seems intent on making over and over chapter after chapter. Women losing estrogen can become more feminine and masculine at the same time. Same goes for men. Right. Another nonsensical point the author harps on relentlessly is that this generation has been given 30 more years to live, to 100 years old, unlike all previous generations. Clearly, that is not fact based on statistics. The worst part of this oddball book is that everyone "over 40" is relegated to the Third Age which also includes 90 and 100 year olds, so as you can imagine, lots of fighting cancer and disease issues. And, finally, way too many stories of women who left husbands in the Third Age to live with other women and find true happiness. Yuck!

Rating:
Summary: Depressing and Odd - Do NOT Input It
Review: This is the kind of book you would never buy in a bookstore. Flip through a few pages and see thin and brief "case studies," which frankly ring hollow and maybe aren't true. Advice given at the end of each chapter is flip and insulting: "develop a sense of humor" "take better care of yourself physically" and so on. Also, there are some really far-fetched points the author seems intent on making over and over chapter after chapter. Women losing estrogen can become more feminine and masculine at the same time. Same goes for men. Right. Another nonsensical point the author harps on relentlessly is that this generation has been given 30 more years to live, to 100 years old, unlike all previous generations. Clearly, that is not fact based on statistics. The worst part of this oddball book is that everyone "over 40" is relegated to the Third Age which also includes 90 and 100 year olds, so as you can imagine, lots of fighting cancer and disease issues. And, finally, way too many stories of women who left husbands in the Third Age to live with other women and find true happiness. Yuck!