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Gil Friedman has written several books including “How to Buy and Sell a Used Car in Europe,” “How to Conduct Your Own Divorce in England and Wales,” “A Dictionary of Love: An Anthology of Quotations on Love from the Profane to the Profound arranged alphabetically into 191 Subject Categories.” This latter book will be reissued in an expanded form in February 2000 and is entitled, “Love Notes: Quotations from the Heart.” Gil Friedman lives, rides his bike and swing dances in Northern California.

Friedman has also written a book on the 20th Century spiritual teacher Gurdjieff. The book is called Gurdjieff A Beginner’s Guide: How Changing The Way We React To Misplacing Our Keys Can Transform Our Lives. It has received 138 reviews on Amazon with a 4.5 star rating. The author’s latest book is called Vitamins To Take Or Not To Take: That Is The Question published in 2020. It discusses all aspects of vitamins and how they can improve your health and they aren’t given much respect.

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Being Unhappy: A Complete Manual with Rules, Exercises, a Midterm and Final Exam

“Author Gil Friedman Presents a Counter-Intuitive Guide Toward Total Misery in his book How To Be Totally Unhappy In a Peaceful World

The book comprises 30 rules and exercises that, if followed to the letter, would lead to extreme anguish and ultimate bliss for the reader. Friedman makes polite, witty, and amusing comments about how much of what we believe on a daily basis is harmful and worthless. He communicates his ideas in a lighthearted and efficient manner. The strategy emphasizes illustrating how you must think to be really miserable. Friedman advocates having all of the shameful things you’ve ever done entirely present in your mind if you want to feel truly unhappy.

In this unconventional and truly unusual self-help book, Gil Friedman uses comedy and reverse psychology to help readers become aware of the things that rob them of happiness.

Friedman successfully illustrates how we become the sources of our own sorrow and happiness through these paradoxical scenarios and how our thinking may influence our view in particular situations. The lighthearted book was well-received and garnered great response from those who read it.

The Arcata Eye has written a review about the book saying: “From the Acknowledgements upfront to the blubs on the back cover, there are unexpected fits of laughter awaiting you in this clever little book. It is an extended parody of self-help books, human nature, and our frenetic, outer-directed society… Like many self-help books, there are rules followed by exercises suggested for the reader; Friedman drolly comments that these exercises ‘in the tradition of college textbooks, rarely have anything to do with the preceding chapter. It is a time-honored way to feel frustrated and inadequate.’ …This wise, clever and exceedingly funny book is a gem.””

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