Reviews for Spare the Couch : Self-Change for Self Improvement

The average rating for Spare the Couch : Self-Change for Self Improvement based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-01-02 00:00:00 Herman Simmons I read this in 1973 and enjoyed it. I had the pleasure of finding a used copy for a penny at Amazon 42 years later and enjoyed the innocent trip down memory lane when was 14 and planning to make a fortune in my spare time (I was in 8th grade so had school all day). My parents sold this in their bookstore which is where I plucked out a copy and took home.

Review # 2 was written on 2010-07-21 00:00:00 Agnieszka Flizik I would say that this is a very underrated book based on the lack of reviews and/or details held within. It's an excellent read for those who are curious about what life was actually like in the Soviet Union in the late 1980s, as well as many of the problems therein (and a few high points). For those who grew up with anti-Soviet American propaganda, this should be a bit of an eye-opener, as many things claimed as fact by the U.S.A. were just not true. It also helps to show how a people without a tradition of liberation and civil rights can so easily accept totalitarianism as "just the way things are." As a collectivist myself, it was interesting to see how those in power can easily manipulate the group to push it in ways that it should not be going. Democratic Centralism is no way to run a government.