[Blarg]

His first book is actually quite good. His ideas on modeling and neurolinguistic programming are quite good. Apparently a lot of that comes from Scientology, but he is no longer a Scientologist. The ideas are good enough that I don't think Scientology coming up with them first discredits them at all, and I'm quite the non-Scientology fan, in a big way.

His second book gets a bit unintentionally hilarious and was a big drop down, I thought. His attempting to patent a word he made up in it and try to sneak it into paragraph after paragraph made the book cumbersome and start to slide into sleazy hucksterism in a way the first book didn't do at all. The second book had moments where I was really gritting my teeth over the cheesiness. To the extent that I can think, I can do it, and more clearly, too, without saying Yabba Dabba Doo or whatever his patented Japanse-sounding word was.