What Readers Have Said About the Book

he following unsolicited comments were all received from readers of You Must Not Let Them Con You! There's Too Much at Stake. We're very proud of what they had to say about the book.

A reader from New York wrote

Your book is the most stimulating and challenging work that I’ve come across in a long time. I’m having a hard time putting it down. Each day I rush home from work to get back to it ... Some of the best thinking on the relationship between mind-brain-language that I’ve seen. Impressive! More importantly, useful! . . . All in all: I am loving it.”

Readers also wrote the following

“Impressive,” “stretched my mind,” “fascinating,” “great,” “should be taught to all children at an early age,” “the greatest self-help book I’ve ever read,” “a masterpiece,” “has the capacity to touch people at any level of need,” “the most intelligent book I’ve ever read,” “thorough and thought-provoking,” and “it introduces the reader to him or herself.”

A reader in Denver offered

“In my view, this is the owner's manual for the mind/brain that didn't come with the equipment.”

California readers chimed in with

“Fair warning! Dr. Shapiro, a truly original thinker, will challenge you, instruct you, and entertain you in this one-of-a-kind book. At times he’ll make you uncomfortable. But above all, he’ll make you think. A good and profitable read,” and “Dr. Shapiro has written an exciting and much needed book. He’s a first-rate teacher. If I could, I’d make it compulsory reading for all adults. It has caused me to now continually examine, question, and talk to myself, to argue with my TV set, and to listen to everything with new ears. You Must Not Let Them Con You! There’s Too Much at Stake is, next to the Bible, the most valuable text for living that I know,” as well as “We live in a world of words, a realm in which the untutored are preyed upon by the unscrupulous. Without a map to guide us through this mine field of verbal pitfalls and traps, we cannot distinguish between the genuine and the counterfeit. We now have such a guide in Dr. Shapiro’s new book. With an ever-increasing verbal torrent from the media, it’s a work whose time has come.”

And a reader in Colorado Springs had this to say about the book

“Dr. Shapiro has his finger on the pulse of what people are most in need of in this hour of proliferating verbal garbage. His material is a must to restore the balance that has been lost between edifying presentations and what has become little more than intellectual-sounding wind . . . The book is a much needed ‘sharpener’ for minds that have grown dull from media-sensory overload . . . Dr. Shapiro's style is casual and humorous, but conveys a powerful, awakening message . . . The wisdom of King Solomon is famous and if he were reigning today, Dr. Shapiro would be one of his advisors.”

Alan Caruba said it well in a review that appeared in BOOKVIEWS

“You ever wonder if you’ll ever figure out what people are really saying? Well, then pick up [a copy of ] You Must Not Let Them Con You! There’s Too Much at Stake, which will teach you how to be alert to folks using language in a slippery way to put one over on you for whatever reason. It’s quite provocative.”

And Shann Nix, prominent KGO (San Francisco) talk show host, had this to   say about the book

“I consider . . . [You Must Not Let Them Con You! There’s Too Much at Stake] . . . my bible on clear thinking . . . reading your work stimulated me in entirely new directions . . . what a masterful mind you have!"