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Don't move my cheese... and neither will I!!
Feb 17, 2003 12:05 PM 9970 Views
(Updated Feb 17, 2003 12:35 PM)

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I Moved Your Cheese, a satire on self-help books, is by Darrel Bristow-Bovey. This book has 96 pages and has been published by New Holland Publishers (UK) Ltd (2002) and is distributed in India by Dolphin Publications. The line on the cover of I Moved Your Cheese which goes ‘This is the self-help book for people who want to take no steps at all. This is the self-help book for people lying on the sofa.’ says it all. The author, using humour, expresses his utter contempt for self-help books and those who read them. The title I Moved Your Cheese implies a direct attack on the similarly named ‘Who Moved My Cheese?’, by Dr. Spencer Johnson, a self-help book about dealing with change. But Darrel Bristow-Bovey has not limited himself to ridiculing just this, he makes disdainful references to Deepak Chopra and other self-proclaimed ‘gurus’, as well. With hilarity oozing from cover to cover, this book is a must-read for those who enjoy humour at it’s mirthful best. From the dedications to the blank pages left at the end to make the book appear thicker, I Moved Your Cheese is a total laugh riot. Darrel Bristow-Bovey, with his absurdly funny anecdotes and instances, will not disappoint readers seeking ridiculous humour. His stories about the old man of the mountains, Xam, his neighbour Bill, his friend Chunko and, of course, himself are side-splitting. Instead of writing words of wisdom in cheese as did the little people in ‘Moved My Cheese?’, the author is found writing in the sand. Across the book, he is yelling “Who moved my keys?”, “I moved your geese” and other deliberately mocking lines. And of course there is his process of ‘Osmatix’. Darrel Bristow-Bovey says it best with “If you have no wisdom of your own, reading self-help books will not help you. You will have to write them instead.”


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