Reviews for Dan Burley's Jive

The average rating for Dan Burley's Jive based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-07-16 00:00:00 Michael Vlasek 701.03 D541 2000

Review # 2 was written on 2014-08-18 00:00:00 Spencer Lee Although he gave some good, common sense advice on being on time, the book mostly consisted of stories that he gathered from other people about their experiences with CP Time (Colored People Time). I could give you some experiences myself, but they are all minor in comparison to some of the stories he tells. I gave it two stars because it was "marketed" as an academic book in the Introduction which dove deep into the issue of being late, how people come to have chronic lateness, and what those individuals can do to be on time. Instead, it was more geared for entertaining. I definitely wasn't the audience for this book. Granted, it was a gift and I didn't pay for it, so I don't feel bad about being disappointed with this book. There were not very many references (if any really) that would back up some of his research. I know he speaks as though it is primary research, but the information isn't gathered, analyzed, and output given in a constructive manner. It is literally just an anthology of stories. Nothing that really gives me evidence-based information and thus (outside common sense) groundbreaking advice that would help with chronic lateness. However, that itself would warrant 3 stars, noting that it wasn't an academic look on CP Time. What created the 2 stars in this book for me, was the fact that more than a handful of the stories were one time flukes that people encountered that made them late. To me, that's not CP Time. That's just a one time fluke that made you late that one time. The people in the stories even note that they are normally not late, but that one time that they were late, things went horribly wrong. Then there were stories that, although spoken from different people, were technically the exact same story. Why be redundant? Are the target audience that forgetful? Finally, there were some grammar issues (unrelated to the flow of natural speech and/or slang), repetitive phrases, confusing dialogue (when did the author stop and a story from someone else begin?) and unnecessary text highlights and whatnot, as if trying to make the book longer by making the font 64 point and changing the style of the text every other page. One chapter was only a half of a page. What gives? I feel like I could've written about this topic much better than this New York Times Bestselling author, and I'm not even officially published yet. I'm sure his other books have done very well, but this one seems like it was rushed, half done, and not fully thought out. It could've been done better.