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...Reading this book is like sitting through one of those stupid motivational speeches. It was obviously written as such, and then a loose "story" was thrown over top of the content to make it into a book. I mean, there are points, where you can actually visualize a person showing the power point slides with one of the sayings in the book written on it, trying to pump up the crowd by saying it with force, and the crowd clapping...

The book took me about 45 minutes to read, but it felt much longer (much like motivational speeches!). The book can be summed up as follows:

Change happens. It's better to move on when it does than expect things to go back to how they were, and it's better to prepare for change then expect things to stay how they are.

That's it. You don't need to read the book now. I mean, that is the summary of the story. They then threw together a pointless storyline of someone telling a group of old friends this story. Then after the story is over, it has all of the friends talking about how the story impacted them. This part felt like an informercial, and I half expected to see "Dramatization" or something along those lines when it was talking about the "success stories".

I would really hate to work at a company that based their model off of what was said in this book...I can just see it now: All around the office, the little action figures of the characters, the sayings plastered on every wall...It would just make me depressed and angry.

Maybe it's just because I'm like the rats (Scurry and Sniffy) in this book that I thought this book was completely pointless...but even if I were like the Littlepeople (Hem and Haw), I would really hope there was a better way to present this message. Basically the four characters represent the different types of people with respect to change (Scurry runs off and takes immediate action, Sniffy sniffs out change happening and prepares for it in advance, Haw is reluctant to change, but eventually realizes he needs to, and although he's afraid, he ventures out to find his "new cheese", and Hem is the idiot who just sits back waiting for things to go back to how they were.

Anyways, I obviously did not like this book, and I wish I had my 45 minutes back. It was just pointless, longer than it needed, and the message/"plot" was just "cheesy"...

(Ok...bad pun, I know...)