Review

The Nottingham Trent

University Student Union Newspaper

"‘That Attitude Book’ is the ultimate student self-help guide without pretending to perform miracles.”

"According to self-help books it’s easy to get fit, lose weight, gain confidence, stop stress, quit smoking and have a fantastic sex life all before breakfast. What none of these self-help books seems to notice is that if it really was that easy then we’d already be fit, slim, confident, stress-free, non-smoking sex Gods, which we blatantly aren’t. With this in mind, may I present ‘That Attitude Book’ by Graham Pepper, a handy pocket sized booklet full of practical advice and favoured by Dame Judi Dench no less.

Behind the cover ‘That Attitude Book’ reads like a textbook. By this I mean it has everything you need in order to learn about getting positive and minimising stress. Pepper provides exercises, examples and straight forward lingo that makes it all very easy to understand and, more importantly, use.

One of the best features of this book are the quotes that crop up on most pages. Confucius, Abraham Lincoln, Walt Disney and even Doctor Who contribute nuggets of useful, practical and memorable advice.

The only downside is a few pages on your ‘mind garden’ and how it needs weeding, cultivating and the sunshine of positive thoughts. Then again, this is a self-help book and where would it be without some kind of natural metaphor? The book is practical, sensible and a wealth of good advice for anyone who should choose to flick through it.”

Claire Evans, Theatre/Books Editor

09 February 2004