This is a book essentially about turning adversity into advantage and it's written with good linguistic skills and beautuful ideas. However, the practical aim of the book is to help readers ride out their storms and gain as much as possible in the process but the content is delivered in a rather literary and technical manner. As a self-help book, simplicity is the key because most readers who turn to books of this genre hanker after precise and concise words and messages. Thus, the main and perhaps only demerit of this book is the message of the book and the way it is delivered are not perfectly attuned to one another. That said, as a self-help book, it is not of first choice. But as a book in general, it's a good-quality and highly readable book.