Media Type : Book | Rating : 8.0 out of 10 | Read on : Sometime in 2000

Released : 1937, re-issued repeatedly & in 1990 | New & Used Book Price : $7.99 & $1.25

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This is one of books I have that people borrow from me the most after I tell them a bit about what it is. This is also the book that I rarely get back on time from those people. Even though this book first came out in the late 1930’s, Dale Carnegie has written many books along with this one that pace through time and have held their heads throughout the decades. The book focuses on how to build your communication and behavior with people around you and thus make friends. By friends, Dale focuses on both the friends we know in life and also strangers who could be potential friends or customers, or people we deal with in everyday life. The book offers real examples from people who have adopted the changes from the classes by Dale and also from their own experiences.

The book is very easy to read, and is built mostly upon experiences and stories of different people to convey the different rules that Dale thinks are essential to almost any success in this world when it comes to interacting with other people. The book is a very healthy read for anyone who wishes to improve their own communication and interactive skills with others, and can be an essential read for anyone in business who wishes to improve their relations with others. The book does not focus entirely on the business aspect of things; it focuses on every interaction with everyone generally, from the head of big corporations to dealing with a police officer when you take your dog on a walk without a leash and you are caught, all coming from real stories and real narratives from people. Almost all the time, we are shown the results that people achieve when they do not adhere to some simple rules, and how the results change significantly and almost always completely in your favor when you think a bit more on what you say and how you act in real life and follow some simple hints that Dale has to offer.

Since this book is written with many stories, you should not be bored when going from one chapter to another and may in fact be looking forward for more. The book is very well written; Dale has written multiple books with the same great writing style. If you are looking for something to improve your job or to improve your relationship with others, or if you simply want to see what other people do to help their own situations, this book should offer you a lot of advice and practical examples of what happens and why it happens when interacting and socializing with people. As with any book on similar subjects, the information presented within this book should not be taken as the absolute truth, but as something that you can try out on your own to see if it applies to you. This is one of the best books out there on this topic that I have read so far.