Go Getter by Peter Kyne

 

The Go getter by Peter Kyne is a small ~50 pages book. I finished reading in 1hr.

I bought this book based on Amazon review comments. Once again I felt the reviews have mislead me. 

I expected it to be an inspiring book which makes you courageous to handle life challenges. I didn't quite like it. Its outdated tone of conversations. Didn't connect to the values highlighted in the book. 

Short summary:

An army guy Bill Peck loses his hand in the war and his army job. He applies for a job in a company.

His boss asks him to go buy a particular flower vase for him. He wants to gift it to his friend. He intentionally creates hurdles for Bill. But being trained in the army, Bill fights through all the unexpected situations and he finally buys the vase and delivers. Impressed by his go-getter spirit, he gets promoted with a good salary hike.

I felt the fight and the effort he put was not worth the cause. But its probably an inspiring story for that era. Job scarcity and many soldiers losing their livelihood was most probably common in that period (1921). It must have inspired many people to rebuild from scratch. But the morals and values don't resonate to today's life.

Go-getter | Classic British tone writing|Old military style motivational story|

My rating: 2/5