Real Life Begins After High School: Facing the Future Without Freaking Out (Bickel, Bruce and Jantz, Stan) [Paperback]

Bruce Bickel (Author), Stan Jantz (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 2000 | Series: Bickel, Bruce and Jantz, Stan

Advice for young people about beginning life on their own away from their parents, delivered in a Christian version of the "Dummies" series with humor and using quotes, "frequently asked questions," lists and other diverse approaches.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Bruce Bickel and Stan Jantz have collaborated on 11 books, with more than one million copies in print. Their most recent titles include Real Life Is a Contact Sport, Bruce and Stan's Guide to the End of the World and onyourown.com (e-mails to my daughter).

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 12 and up
  
• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: Vine Books (March 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0830734848
• ISBN-13: 978-0830734849
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,368,756 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

BRUCE BICKEL of Fresno, California has coauthored numerous books with his writing partner Stan Jantz. Bruce's regular job is as lawyer and speaker, and he and his wife, Cheryl, have two children.

Customer Reviews

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22 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Read Life Begins After High School, May 5, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Real Life Begins After High School: Facing the Future Without Freaking Out (Paperback)

Bruce & Stan have a winner in this book on how to cope with most every situation that young people face upon leaving the comfort of the nest. They give practical, down to earth advice on surviving that first semester in college, choosing friends, living on a budget and many other interesting situations. This book is written in an easy to read and wonderfully humorous manner. Highly recommended reading for any high school student and their parents.

3 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars "real life", March 3, 2007

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Soda (dallas, tx) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Real Life Begins After High School: Facing the Future Without Freaking Out (Paperback)

I received this book as a gift from a neighbor, being that I'm only mere months away from embarking to college. Now, I am not a Christian, and being that this book was a gift, feel as if I received it highly disguised.

I read this book last night for some late night reading, and-- although this book certainly can be helpful for a select few close-minded Christians, I was amused yet offended by the cliché and narrow-minded perspective that these authors had of life in high school and of college.

For instance, what I found most laughable by far were these people's ideas of friendships. I can understand their perspective of kids needing to find new friends after high school (and that it overall does not matter), but come on. Not everyone has a group of friends as clichéd as the ones in sitcoms or teeny-bopper movies, and Christians are not the only good influences that a person can receive throughout their life.
The fact that these people claim that it is only plausible to seek friends of a Christian nature and that others should be befriended only on the account of conversion, is nothing short of idiocy. My Christian friends similarly laugh at this book's narrow-minded, hackneyed nature.

Furthermore, these authors discuss topics in which they admit to having no knowledge of, which only furthers their lack of credibility and their dull, lackluster humor.

Overall, buy this book if you want a Christian read even other Christians find idiotic, or desire to be brainwashed by authors who clearly have not lived in the real world.