The Pursuit of Happyness: An NAACP Image Award Winner

As many of other people did, I wanted to read the book after seeing the movie. Not that I was extremely impressed, but I was really curious and usually the book offers a more detailed picture.
It took me a really long time to read the book, I didn't particulary liked the writing style and, to me, it seemed like the author wanted to impress, to show you what a great person he is.
There is a side of Chris Gardner that didn't exactly made me respect him as a person, and it definitely rubbed me the wrong way.
I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone, not even to those who enjoyed the movie.

I was uneasy going into this book. The movie made Gardner to be an American hero, moving up from homelessness into riches. The full story as Gardner tells it is much more grim. I won't itemize Gardner's list of crimes, but it's enough to say, I think, that the movie omits or glosses over most of the shadier events of his life. And, no, as you might expect, even with a writer helping him, Gardner is not good at setting down the story of his life. I was left with the feeling that Gardner is just a man who wanted to become rich and did so. His greatest accomplishment was to do this without tossing aside his kids when it would have been easy to do so.