Featured New Book: The Four-Hour Body

Many New Year's resolutions focus on losing weight, and publishers are not slow to take advantage of this trend. With mountains of weight-loss books competing for reader attention, what makes The Four-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman worth reading? In Book Page, Timothy Ferris, author of the bestselling Four-Hour Workweek, explains: "Big changes seldom work. The Four-Hour Body is intended to answer one question: What are the smallest changes that produce the biggest physical results?" Sounds promising, but we'll let readers be the judge. For the full interview, see the January 2011 issue of Book Page, free copies of which are available at your community library.

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  1. I’ve been looking around the web to see what kind of reaction the book is getting from people who know about the different topics it covers. The sex stuff (15 minute orgasm) is what got me to buy The 4-Hour Body.

    There is some good stuff in those two chapters - useful illustrations and a fairly straightforward approach from his teachers and trainers – but its really just an introduction – I’m guessing this one of the topics in the book he has researched the least.

    If these chapters are an example of Tim’s 80/20 rule – what he thinks is the 20% that produces 80% of the result - then I’d say what is in the book is closer to 10%, not 20% - there is a lot more available for both parties than what he describes.

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