The Best Time to Do Everything

by Michael Kaplan

Compressed into one slim but surprisingly informative and intensely researched volume, The Best Time to Do Everything is an irresistible guide to the essentials of living. The Best Time to Do... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1582344876
• ISBN13: 9781582344874
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.1" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

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I thought this was a great read! Not only was it full of useful information, the tips were short, and to the point. Want to learn how to play the guitar? Joey Ramone suggested you start when you're 16 and have some basic musical knowledge. Best time for a rich uncle to die? In 2010, when a loophole in the law temporarily repeals the estate tax. Some of my favorites that I thought were really helpful were: Best Time To Buy a New Car - end of the month Best Time To Get Your Car Repaired - Spring/Fall & first thing in the morning. This book is chock full of excellent tips that I everyone can use. Whether you want to teach your new puppy a trick or want to know the best time to visit Europe, I highly recommend this book!

Many useful tidbits here!

Some books grab you by the title . . . that was certainly the case with THE BEST TIME TO DO EVERYTHING by Michael Kaplan, a journalist who is the gambling columnist for CIGAR AFICIONADO. The subtitle caught my attention, too: EXPERT ADVICE ON HOW TO LIVE COOLER, SMARTER, FASTER, BETTER . . . being interested in all those possibilities, I read this book's 170 too-brief pages in one sitting. Some of what I learned wasn't all that practical; OK, OK, not practical at all--such as how to stage a coup . . . I also wasn't very interested in such other topics as the best time to deliver a baby, get punched in the face or sweat a perp. However, I found much of the other advice both interesting and helpful (either now or in the future) . . . for example, as a result of reading Kaplan's work, I now know the best time to downsize, pick up a lunch or dinner tab and thank your parents. This latter bit of advice rally struck a chord . . . according to Mary Marcadante, author of MY MOTHER, MY FRIEND: THE TEN MOST IMPORTANT THINGS TO TALK ABOUT WITH YOUR MOTHER and one of the many experts interviewed in the book: "There are no times soon enough to tell our parents how grateful we are for their raising us. . . . I told my parents [recently] that I am glad to be alive, and I thanked them for the gift of life. I pointed out a few details--like the fact that my father used to take me to skip stones--and they helped my parents to recall some great memories. It's the sort of thing that rejuvenates you and them." Among just a few of the many other tidbits that I found useful were the following: Auto prices are always somewhat negotiable, but at the end of every month, salesmen become downright flexible. It's when they focus more on volume and less on commissions from individual car sales. "We have monthly quotas that we try to hit," says Fred Altman, one of America's most successful Dodge salesmen (he works out of Christopher's Dodge World in Golden, Colorado, which consistently ranks among the country's top dealerships). "Everything in the car business is on a monthly schedule. Sell enough cars in a given month and you get a higher commission percentage the next month, as well as a better work schedule. As the thirtieth and thirty-first approach, I am definitely more aggressive in closing sales." [Best time to be photographed] "Not early in the morning-which is what a lot of people think," says Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, who photographs for the Vanity Fair and has shot portraits of the biggest names in pop music, art, and business. "You've been sleeping on one side of you face or the other. So it's puffy. You want to start with hair and makeup at ten-thirty or eleven and get on the set by noon. That's what you'd do if you were Paris Hilton or Babe Paley. By the way, you don't want to be photographed late in the afternoon, either-when you're tired and it shows on your face and in your eyes." [Best time to start a road trip] "About six in the morning," sugges