Recently bought a counseling book on the strength of it's outline. I was wanting to update my library with some fresh marriage materials, but didn't have time to read the book more in-depthly at the bookstore. Just finished it. Except for the outline, I'm sorry I bought the book. I didn't judge the book by its cover, but I did by it's outline. I got fooled. The outline is great, in fact I'll use it for future, but I won't be recommending anyone to buy the book. The nine topics the author recommends to discuss in preparation for marriage are: kids, careers, money, family, home, roles, leisure, and religion. Solid stuff, but after that, not so solid. Lesson: This experience in book buying reminded me that my previous habits of vetting a book's contents in part by endorsers, and success on the best seller list is good metric. Not fail safe, but certainly improves one's chances of getting a good book. This book had neither. :(