Dissecting Pinocchio by Christopher Dillingham, M.A.

Welcome to another episode of my book reviews.

You might notice that I just finished up the last one last night. The reason, this book is barely over 100 pages. I was able to knock what I did read easily today. Notice I said, "what I did read" and I'll explain that in a second. 

If you've read my previous book reviews you'll notice that I'm pretty OCD when it comes to opening the package, skimming through without really reading it and getting a baseline of what to expect by reading the contents section in the begginning of the book. This book is no different. 

When I received the book, I was excited. I just started reading the last book that was also on deception detection. i noticed the book was significantly thinner than I was expecting, graphics bland. I also noticed a few other things. The back of the book stated that he was a police officer and there were 3 pages of references as well. The acknowledgements were full of University of Florida professors. 

Without even reading this book I instantly stereotyped it. I felt that this book was written(or put together from references) by an 'ol timer cop and I didn't feel it was going to be very useful for my intentions.

I carried on regardless. Still hyped from the last book I just finished the night before regarding the same topic. 

Something else that I feel I need to bring to your attention. In previous posts I have said that most, if not, all the books I read I recommend. That is not the case here.

I was continually turned while reading this book. I felt that so many things that weren't in the direction the book was being disccused. In the last book I just read, I learned about something that is said by deceivers just before they're going to deceive you.

Right at the beginning of the book, the author wrote, "I won't press my political views on you, but" 

Can you guess what occured next? You betcha! Right on page 9. Right at the beginning of the book before he even attempted to get into any details or useful content he LIES. This is a book about detecting deception and he deceives his readers? C'mon!

As you can imagine, I was a little upset while reading the rest of the book, feeling that I couldn't trust the things that he was saying. 

That was actually the second lie he told on that page(which was page 9). The other flat out lie was this, "I could have taken the easy way and written two or three books full of B.S in the time that it's taken me to write this one (and probably made more money by doing so)".

Now, fresh from an amazing book I just read that I felt highlighted on 'Verbal Responses' I easily and quickly picked up on these things while I was reading the book being mentioned this post. This author, by including the last part (in parenthesis) is used when he feels he needs more to 'convince' you. In reality, the author probaby would NOT have made more money and he knows it. There is NO reason he needed to add that additional statement if the actual statement had any truth to it. 

Remember this, When a deceiver continues to add new facts, they will do so until you respond to them, letting the deceiver know they have convinced you. 

This book continues on and it does have a few decent topics briefly discussed from time to time that are of some interest. I don't feel this book will be of any help to Real Estate Investors as it is written by an 'ol brass type with a badge. If you were interested in learning some 'Interogation' techinques, then by all means this book will probably be right up your alley. 

With all the help it seemed that he had and all the references to other peoples material made by evidence in the acnkowledgements and 3 pages of references I don't think I could recommend this book. 

ps. I almost forgot to mention that the part where I said, "What I did read".  I did not read every page of this book. There were the last two chapters I felt I had no business reading and at this point it would not have changed my opinion of the book as a whole. 

Those chapters were: Polygraphs and other lie detectors & The games People Play. 

Those chapters were easily seen as not an interest of mine and they were along with most of the book geared towards police work.