In this wickedly droll parody, stand-up comics Bines and Greenberg skewer familiar advice tomes and the people who love them. Our favorite titles: Life's Little Insurrection Book ("Sticks and stones may break their bones, so aim for the extremities") and The Complete and Utter Idiot's Guide to Life ("Take heart, cretin!"). There's also a Further Reading section containing such guffaw-inducing suggestions as Buns of Steely Dan; Eat Bait,
Lose Weight; and Martha Stewart Prison Living. Cheaper (and much more fun) than therapy. A-

— Entertainment Weekly

"Comics Jonathan Bines and Gary Greenberg are soon out with a whacked-out paperback, "Self-Helpless: The Greatest Self-Help Books You'll Never Read."... and why? Basically, they're sick of being told to get in touch with their inner child, outer pig, or recovering artist. Anyway, from Oprah to Martha to Robert Fulghum to John Gray, no guru remains unscathed.

— Cindy Adams, The New York Post

"Casually hilarious."

— Time Out New York

"Self-help for the hapless!"

— The Los Angeles Times