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The 5 Am Club: Own Your Morning. Elevate Your Life. by Robin S. Sharma

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This was just embarrassingly bad. I read this as a pdf off of the internet, and for a moment I thought I had downloaded a botched file because of how bad it was. I cannot believe that this is being sold in bookstores and that people buy this. Written as a narrative story when it really shouldn't have been. Characters are laughable and completely unrealistic. Descriptions are senseless and do not add any meaning or valuable characterization. (The author judges materialism and then goes off on very likely self-indulgent rambling about what a character's fancy watch looks like - really just makes you want to skim the entire paragraph. Not sentence, paragraph. And don't forget the surfer slang! Just laughable.) It kind of reads like a novel written by a middle-schooler but with an added not dash, not spoonful, but truckload of corporate and business cringe that will pretty much never be relatable to or incite any kind of emotional or logical response in anybody ("Her eyes looked sad, from old hurts that had never been healed. And from the current chaos that was infecting her beloved company.") . Reading the words "marketplace" and "industry" in the same paragraph as quotes about living a vibrant and inspiring live also just rubs the wrong way.

This books' one plus is that it gave me hope in my writing abilities as an author once again, because not even the worst chickenscratch summoned straight from the crumpled notebooks I never show to anybody will ever come close to the level of horror I had been subjected too in just a mere 24 pages of Sharma's The 5 AM Club. 
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