How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else
 

How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else

by Michael Gates Gill

In his fifties, Michael Gates Gill had it all: a big house in the suburbs, a loving family, and a top job at an ad agency with a six-figure salary. By the time he turned sixty, he had lost everything except his Ivy League education and his sense of entitlement. First, he was downsized at work. Next, an affair ended his twenty-year marriage. Then, he was diagnosed with a slow-growing brain... (read more)

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I enjoyed this book. It is a quick read and has a great message.

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Hope O
  • Rated 2 stars

I really didn't care after a few chapters.

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  • Wisdom

    wisdom said:

    I have read 108 pages so far and love it. Saw an interview with the author and decided that I had to read the book. Tom Hanks is making a movie with him playing Michael Gill, should be a good film.

    posted Monday, December 31 2007
  • Sundeep

    sundeep said:

    Liked it a lot....a fantastic read.......cant wait to step into a STARBUCKS now!!!

    posted Sunday, December 30 2007
  • danan

    danan said:

    While the narrative is simple and effecitve, the book itself is a eulogy fior Starbucks. C'mon Mr Mills, we want the bad stuff as well. Surely, they aren't as flawless as you would like us to believe.

    posted Friday, December 14 2007
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