To Be Honest

4.5 stars. Every so often I start a review by saying that it's incredibly subjective and personal and probably useless to everyone who reads it and then all y'all like it more than all my other reviews and I never really understand except to know that there is something intriguing about when you jus......more

To be honest, I think Michael Leviton is an insufferable snob. I want to be as truthful as possible in this review, which I think Michael would appreciate. Some of my formative years were spent in The Netherlands where the people are stereotyped as being brutally honest - to the point of rudeness. I......more

Happy publication day! Wow I read this back in June. This was an entertaining read and definitely different from any kind other kind of memoir I have ever read. Leviton's parents were brutally honest to the point where they came off as rude and kind of odd. In turn, this made Leviton come off the sam......more

Ouch, I really don’t like giving a book two stars, but this one was a hard “No!” for me. I didn’t like the author from the get-go, but kept reading to see if the book would improve as the pages rolled along. Nope. Sorry, this one was not for me. 👎......more

Leviton was raised not to lie, but that’s oversimplifying. It’s his family’s unnecessary, unyielding honesty that reeks of arrogance and elitism. If always brutally honest, you bypass many acceptable social norms (i.e. it’s important not to be a dick 24/7). He says, “In my family, silence was suffer......more