How to...!: How to Be Smarter, Slimmer, Happier, Richer, Sexier - and So Successful That You'll Never Need Another How-to Book

Gerry Meek was a librarian in Thunder Bay, Ontario.

Avoiding the pitfalls of other how-to books, this study is not aimed at improving the reader’s life but rather at making him/her more fully satisfied with being totally inept. Included are a series of hilarious chapters aimed at the avid do-it-yourselfer. In each case, the instructions offered are practical and direct to the matter in hand. Typical of the author’s approach is the advice offered on how to deal with the problem of aging: die young. In a similar vein, readers interested in becoming world champions without any exercise are encouraged to take up a sport that nobody else has ever heard about. Those interested in touring Europe on $5.00 a day are advised to avoid staying at any location that can be found on a map and to eat at one-trough, rather than three-star, restaurants.

Entertaining, inventive, and delightfully funny, this excellent book will amuse and entertain the broad readership it deserves to attract.

The author is an award-winning Canadian humorist, and the text is nicely illustrated by well-known cartoonist Graham Pilsworth.