I am super new to the idea of Buddhism but I thought this book my help me on my start. I felt like the exact same things were said over and over again which made it hard to follow and know when key points were being made. Also it wasn’t a book on how to begin practicing buddhism, it was a look at the religion through examples of people doing it all wrong. It’s hard to explain why I didn’t like this book and I plan to revisit this when I become more knowledgable but for now this was a disappointment.