What a wonderful book! I picked it up because I'm an oncology nurse and am always interested in seeing how people cope with life-threatening illness. Karen Duffy's book is both highly entertaining (downright hilarious at times)and a great inspiration to the power of positive thinking and making lemonade out of lemons. Some of her coping mechanisms are not what we normally recommend to our patients but it works for her and it's a perfectly valid way to go. I would recommend this to all my patients who are not too uptight or easily offended (sex,drugs and rock-and-roll).