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Gary’s Guide to Life: How I Am Going to Achieve Phenomenal Success, and How You Can Do the Same Kindle Edition

by Michael Nabavian (Author), Phil Wall (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.4 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
Most people would give anything to be as successful as Gary Speedwell is going to be. Now, in Gary's Guide to Life, Gary puts that dream within your reach by unveiling the strategies that are going to lift him out of ordinariness and set him – and you – on course for phenomenal success.

Conventional wisdom holds that only people who have attained some measure of success are qualified to write self-help books, but Gary begs to differ. Brimming with self-belief despite mounting debt, tricky personal relationships and a life seemingly spiralling out of control, Gary is a self-help expert like no one who has gone before.
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"Hilarious in its complete embrace of a faith-over-substance approach to success and wealth" - Underground Book Reviews

"...this is a wonderfully witty and at times utterly hilarious take on all those worthy self-help guides that clog the relationships, counselling and psychology-themed shelves of our bookstores .... Michael Nabavian and Phil Wall are what we Brits like to call 'Comedy Gold'..." - colingarrow.org

"Nabavian and Wall have done a great job merging the ridiculous aspects of self-help books with the empathy-inducing tale of its hapless author" - Striking 13

About the Author

Michael Nabavian grew up in suburban New York but emigrated to Great Britain when he was in his early twenties. In 1999 he moved to London to make his fortune - a project that continues to this day. Michael holds undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in English Literature, from the universities that educated George W Bush and Tony Blair respectively.

Phil Wall was born in Kent, moved to Wales when he was three and took fifteen years to escape back to England. He now lacks the willpower to move anywhere else. Phil has written for general interest magazines and been commissioned by The Sun newspaper to write amusing things about football. He blogs about Arsenal FC when he feels the need to.

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  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 10, 2016
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  • Squeaky Joe
    5.0 out of 5 stars Utterly hilarious
    Reviewed in the United States on December 17, 2016
    Wanna-be self-help guru Gary Speedwell is going to be a success. At least, that's the plan, and by following his own set of motivational strategies (inspired by personal-development authority Marshall Brewster), there's no stopping him. Or at least, there won't be if he can get things sorted out with ex-wife Kim and his soon-to-be ex-girlfriend Sandra. All he needs is to hook up with a powerful business-minded woman like Louise, and everything'll be hunky dory.

    With its subtitle: 'How I Am Going to Achieve Phenomenal Success, and How You Can Do the Same', this is a wonderfully witty and at times utterly hilarious take on all those worthy self-help guides that clog the relationships, counselling and psychology-themed shelves of our bookstores.

    Gary's Guide to Life is a very readable book, dishing up advice and strategies for improving everything from business meetings to getting to first base with our hoped-for love interest. Each strategy comes with examples from Gary's own life, tinged, as many of them are, with naivety, enthusiasm and occasionally, moronic self-belief.

    Michael Nabavian and Phil Wall are what we Brits like to call 'Comedy Gold' and I wouldn't be at all surprised if the pair don't get their own sitcom. If you like a laugh and a good story into the bargain, this one'll fit bill very nicely.
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  • Lynne M Hinkey
    5.0 out of 5 stars TOP PICK! From Underground Book Reviews
    Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2017
    Hilarious in its complete embrace of a faith-over-substance approach to success and wealth, Gary’s Guide to Life will have readers cringing and laughing at this witty send-up of the Self-Help aisle. If you’re a fan of Dr. Phil types and take your self-help gurus seriously, you might not appreciate this rollicking satire. For everyone else, you’ll want to step in and give Gary a good shake for being so very blind to what’s blatantly obvious to the reader, but you’ll also root for him to succeed at being successful because he is so endearingly naive.

    Read the complete review at Undergroundbookreviews.org
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  • Jesse B. Christensen
    5.0 out of 5 stars Funny and Touching
    Reviewed in the United States on January 18, 2017
    As a satirical self-help book, Gary's Guide to Life is hilarious, but it's much more than that. What made me love the book were the glimpses of Gary's past, his relationship with his son, and his attempts to get his family back. In subtle ways, the book is quite touching. You come to root for Gary, delusions and all. Highly recommended.
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  • Leo Glickman
    5.0 out of 5 stars What a great book for the Age of Trump
    Reviewed in the United States on August 8, 2016
    What a great book for the Age of Trump, an age of wildly egotistical and over-confident men who utterly lack self awareness, There's more than a little Gary in our presidential candidate, superficial ideas about "success", and the inflationary self-deluded power of just believing you're a success, to name two.

    This is a hilarious, smart, and believe it or not, even a sweet book. Hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed it.
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  • Stephen Rowling
    5.0 out of 5 stars Funniest book I've read this year!
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 17, 2020
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    Gary's Guide to life is a brilliant read and incredibly funny. Thoroughly enjoyable. It resonated with me not least because I know there is a bit of Gary in me; an idiot but well meaning! In fact maybe that's what makes it so funny. We all know a Gary and we don't want to admit we all exhibit Garylike behaviors now and again. Usually more than we're happy to acknowledge. Congratulations to the authors for shining a light on this often under represented area.
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  • Hofmann
    4.0 out of 5 stars It is as easy to laugh at the unfathomably positive Gary as it ...
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 1, 2016
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    For every man and woman seeking to find his or her true self and destiny in a self-help book there is a cynic waiting to snigger.

    It is as easy to laugh at the unfathomably positive Gary as it is to laugh at yourself when you find a little piece of your own reality in 'Gary's Guide To Life'

    Its not the book you start reading and can't put down for two days straight. Its the book you pick up, and pick up again, whenever you need a little chuckle.

    His self-believe and annoyingly positive outlook are particularly well illustrated and amusing with regards to his relationship to Louise, his manager at the haulage firm, who he considers a suitable match for himself - a man on the brink of great success.

    All signs that point to her exasperation are filled with great promise to Gary.
    'Whenever she talks to me she seems on the verge of walking away - there is something really sexy about that"

    When Gary receives an email from a surviving relative from a very rich man from the Ivory Coast, the spam letter we have all become familiar with over the last decade is thoughtfully considered as an opportunity by Gary. Luckily for him his aim to become a self-help guru has rendered him too broke to take real action.

    Long tangents and a particularly floral language can at times be frustrating in classic narrative tales, Gary's tangents however are where this book is at its best.

    In one of my favourite little passages Gary describes his attempts at meditation being hindered by broken blinds and the smell of tea towel that was previously used to clean up the remains of a mushy cucumber out of the bottom of the fridge.

    As I myself have failed to find my center during the Yoga classes I have been peer pressured into visiting, it was rather re-assuring to note that I'm not alone in my struggles.

    All in all, you laugh with Gary just as much as you laugh about him, which makes for a hugely enjoyable read.
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