This book is an advertisement for Apple and its products. If finding a minimalism lifestyle worked for him, that's great, but I doubt that it would be a common cure for alcoholism, as he implies. Sasaki writes about being an alcoholic (he doesn't use the term but, to me, getting drunk every night and going to work hung over the next morning is being an alcoholic) before finding minimalism. Minimalism is the one true religion and you can change your life for the better by converting to minimalism. Reading Goodbye Things, I felt as if I was listening to a combination TV preacher and motivational speaker. In a way, it's the same deal - just going in another direction. However, he's gained an identity as a minimalist by giving things up. Sasaki writes about people gaining an identity through the things they have. In fact, the book could have almost been condensed to the "55 tips to help you say goodbye to your things" on the last few pages of the book. A good editor could have cut this book down to the length of a magazine article, added a few of the book's photographs, and nothing much would have been lost. Sasaki writes about minimalism in maximalist manner.
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