Credit Crunch Book

November 14, 2008 – 5:55 pm

I found this article on the Times site yesterday and really loved the writing style. The article is an extract of a money saving book by a journalist called India Knight, I haven’t heard of her before but I believe she has written an number of other popular books in the past.

Here is an extract from the article - it made me laugh.

“I believe that part of the reason so many of us feel obscurely dissatisfied in some way is to do with our strange, deluded (and very unthrifty) expectations. I also believe that these are a direct consequence of two things: a) celebrity culture, in which everyone always seems beautiful, rich, happy and fulfilled, and we, by comparison, seem plain, poor, beset with small miseries and chronically unfulfilled/frustrated; and b) the sneaky influence, and legacy, of all those thousands of self-help books, which have now been around for a couple of decades, and which all contain the same message: you’re super-special and deserve everything, and if you’re not getting it, it’s because you’re a victim.

Point a) is easily dismissed: it’s called PR and I sincerely hope that the lovely readers of this publication have enough gumption to see the smoke and mirrors for what they are. (It’s also called airbrushing, and sometimes eating disorder, and often drug habit.)”

You can read the full article here, I think I may buy the book - I’m hooked.