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Sterling's Gold: Wit and Wisdom of an Ad Man

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I was expecting a "memoir", as it was presented in the show. To get 150+ pages of one liners straight from the script was a huge disappointment.

As another reviewer already mentioned, it is a compilation of lines from the actual show. It actually amused me, though, because ala Mad Men, it is a brilliant marketing scheme. Publish a book with content already created and paid for. It's like getting paid for the same material TWICE! Awesome! But, as far a a read, not so much. It will make a nice little addition to die hard Mad Men fans collection, but if you are expecting any kind of biography of Roger Sterling, you are out of luck. Too bad, because that would have made a great book. Then again, someone would have actually had to WRITE that. Touche Man Men, touche!

I ordered this the moment I saw it advertised. I bought it as a gift for my "Mad Men" loving husband. I thought it would be like the memoirs that Roger Sterling was seen working on last season. Unfortunately it is not. It is just a collection of lines from the show. It is a nice "Mad Men" keepsake, but it is not what I thought it was and not really what I wanted.

I've seen this book sell for easily twice what I paid. The product was received quickly and in good quality. Great gift for fans of Mad Men.

This is a great book for any fan of Mad Men and Roger Sterling. Its a very quick read and is more of a book that sits on your coffee table and not your Kindle. The content is great but the price for the Kindle version is not. skip the digtal version and go for the hard copy.

Though it would be completly awesome to have an autobiography written by the fictional Roger Sterling this quote book is excellent for what it is.

With a low cost and Amazon Prime, this was a no-brainer gift for a friend of mine at Christmas. If you watch the show, you know that Roger's been scribbling away at this for a while. It IS just quotes from the series (from what I read), not a version of the actual book the character was writing. But nevertheless, I think the intent is to have a funny little coffee table book. Mission accomplished.

You won't need more to go through all the wisdom and wit of an Ad Man. Funny, but too short to enjoy it. Brings back good memories from the show but leaves you dissapointed big time that it takes you less time to read it than even one episode of mad men.

I was thrilled to get Sterling's Gold: Wit and Wisdom of an Ad Man because like many TV viewers, I'm a big fan of Mad Men. I wasn't sure what "story" Roger Sterling was really going to tell. On the show, we hear him making notes into a recorder about his life, but it's really Sterling's great one-liners that endear him to us. He's got the best lines, and always delivered at just the right time.

Well imagine getting those lines back-to-back? It would make you feel as if Sterling was in the room, smoking away and making you giggle, take pause, and shake your head at the incorrigible-ness he projects. We love Roger because he says the things we didn't think to say, at a time when we would never dream of saying it out loud.

One thing I appreciated about this book is that in delivering Sterling's story this way (rather than a straight autobiography) was that it gives you Sterling's essence much more completely than a longer, more traditional book. Kudos to the writers!

This book is filled with great one liners like "The day you sign a client is the day you start losing him," "Being with a client is like being in a marriage. Sometimes you get into it for the wrong reasons, and eventually they hit you in the face," and "When God closes a door, he opens a dress." The book is divided into sections on business, marriage, life, his coworkers, and more. It has pictures from the show at the start of each section, which make it that much more of a fabulous gift for Mad Men fans. The book is short and will take you no more than fifteen minutes to read. And guess what? You will enjoy every single minute.

Thought this book would have more than just one, short sentence per page. Yes, some of the one-liners are humorous. However, I was expecting some short quips or stories that correlate to the serious arc.