After finishing this, the author still sounds like kind of a terrible person, and book sounds like the product of his own get-rich scheme. "Read this detailed how-to book to find out to make MILLIONS by... selling detailed how-to books!"

That said, there were some helpful things:

First, by reading about how he manipulates other people (e.g. telling a long winded colleague that he (Ferriss) has a phone call in 5 minutes) you'll learn how to recognize it when it's done to you. Secondly, the details of how to organize an autonomous company and how to live abroad cheaply actually seemed like good information.

So, I would recommend starting half-way through where these details begin and to check out the book from your local library, lest you give Timothy Ferriss more of your money.