Read People Like a Book: How to Analyze, Understand, and Predict People’s Emotions, Thoughts, Intentions, and Behaviors

by Patrick King

Speed read people, decipher body language, detect lies, and understand human nature.Is it possible to analyze people without them saying a word? Yes, it is. Learn how to become a “mind reader” and forge deep connections.How to get inside people’s heads without them knowing.Read People Like a Book isn’t a normal book on body language of facial expressions. Yes, it includes all of those things, as well as new techniques on how to truly detect lies in your everyday life, but this book is more about understanding human psychology and nature. We are who we are because of our experiences and pasts, and this guides our habits and behaviors more than anything else. Parts of this book read like the most interesting and applicable psychology textbook you’ve ever read. Take a look inside yourself and others!Understand the subtle signals that you are sending out and increase your emotional intelligence.Patrick King is an internationally bestselling author and social skills coach. His writing draws of a variety of sources, from scientific research, academic experience, coaching, and real life experience.Learn the keys to influencing and persuading others.•What people’s limbs can tell us about their emotions.•Why lie detecting isn’t so reliable when ignoring context.•Diagnosing personality as a means to understanding motivation.•Deducing the most with the least amount of information.•Exactly the kinds of eye contact to use and avoidFind shortcuts to connect quickly and deeply with strangers.The art of reading and analyzing people is truly the art of understanding human nature. Consider it like a cheat code that will allow you to see through people’s actions and words.Decode people’s thoughts and intentions, and you can go in any direction you want with them.

Genres: Psychology, Nonfiction, Self Help, Personal Development, Communication, Business, Philosophy

277 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 7, 2020

About the author

Patrick King is a Social Interaction Specialist, in other words, a dating, online dating, image, and communication and social skills coach based in San Francisco, California, and has been featured on numerous national publications such as Inc.com. He’s also a #1 Amazon best-selling dating and relationships author with the most popular online dating book on the market, and writes frequently on dating, love, sex, and relationships.

He focuses on using his emotional intelligence and understanding of human interaction to break down emotional barriers, instill confidence, and equip people with the tools they need for success. No pickup artistry and no gimmicks, simply a thorough mastery of human psychology delivered with a dose of real talk, perfected and honed through three years of law school.

Reviews

[Hannah · Rating 1 out of 5]

this book was either written for stupid people or men.

[Siarl · Rating 2 out of 5]

Before reading this book, I read a review on it that said: “this book was either written for stupid people or men.” Which made me both LOL and want to read the book.

My take away of the key points the Author asserts are:
1. Rather than try to passively detect lies, actively steer (manipulate?) conversation so liars reveal themselves.
2. Rely on your gut feeling to read people accurately.

I got a laugh from that earlier reviewer, and I understand her point. How to Read People Like a Book is best suited for someone who desperately desires to gain situational advantage over everyone they interact with. It’s not particularly helpful to an emotionally intelligent person.

[Rana Habib · Rating 1 out of 5]

3/10.

Some decent insight on how to read/analyze body language but otherwise this book was so lame.

He had a whole chapter talking about personality tests and quizzes. Very surface level stuff tbh.

Maybe a good read if you’re in High School or severely lack social intelligence

[Jolanta · Rating 2 out of 5]

Yet another so-called self help book where a so-called author quotes smart people, mostly psychologists and well known authors who actually had some knowledge about the topic. I would call this an essay on the subject rather than a book one should spend his money on. The guy adds little if nothing of his own ideas. Buy C.G. Jung instead or other authors he quotes and uses as a reference if you’re looking for something serious. If you are not a fan of reading and simply want an easy brief on the subject, go for this one. I do not recommend it, though.

[Madison Fenzl · Rating 2 out of 5]

Good information but ONE HUNDRED PERCENT a self published book with terrible margins, outrageously large text and randomly widely spaced words throughout which made it murder to read lol 😷

[Evinpinar · Rating 3 out of 5]

I've read that book because I sometimes have difficulties understanding people's intentions.
Overall, it is a fun book to read which touches on psychology and personality type studies like MBTI and Keirsey. I don't agree with some parts which involve stereotyping, but overall the main message is 'look for the context, then try to understand people'.

[Gohnar23 · Rating 3 out of 5]

I would give this book a 'too simple and surface level but it advertises itself as one of those manipulate ppl cuz u know dark psychology' out of 10 coconuts. It basically is literally just explaining those myers briggs personality test and gives brief information about body language, i mean yeah these things are important but this book doesn't really add anything new to the table.

[Melissa · Rating 4 out of 5]

I learned a lot of insight about body language from this book. Some information was material I'd already learned in psychology classes, and some could be thought of as "common sense," but common sense isn't necessarily obvious for everyone.

[Jess · Rating 3 out of 5]

Why do I keep listening to Booktok…

[Erlinda Pysqyli · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book is so dumb. It's just full of plagiarism with no proper citations. I guess anyone can write a book these days by copying stuff from the internet and articles.

[Emma Hoel · Rating 1 out of 5]

You don’t need to read this book. You already know all of this by just existing in your own life and interacting with others on a daily basis. I finished the book and it summed up things I already knew. It was a very easy read tho. That’s why I give it one star.

[blanca · Rating 1 out of 5]

so, besides taking a 30 minute long test on how to read peoples emotions - this book either gave me anger issues because of a LOT sexist and misogynistic statements or gave me trust issues in men.

besides the quiz and some valid points concerning the personality test “OCEAN” this whole book is common sense.

love the “this book was written for stupid people or men” comment lol

[Raquel Figuesans ❾¾ · Rating 1 out of 5]

Ufffffff ... Muy genérico, el autor quiso decir muchas cosas en pocas paginas y no profundiza en nada, podría resumirse en "fijate en todo" pero no explica más allá de cada cosa. Parece un artículo de Google más que un libro, esperaba más.

Tal vez si no sabes absolutamente nada de lenguaje corporal etc puede ayudarte a entrar en el tema

[Yasmine gamal · Rating 1 out of 5]

سطحي اووي وممل ومطلعتش منه بحاجه والحمد لله اكتشفت اني مش لوحدي ...

[Power In Books · Rating 1 out of 5]

Completely garbage 🤮

[philine · Rating 1 out of 5]

zero depth and repeats itself endlessly. just bad

[Živilė Matijaškienė · Rating 3 out of 5]

Personally the book didn't impact me too much.

But it did get my attention on the "Expression of the Shadow" - it truly intrigued me and allowed me to research this topic more.

I do believe that even if you take one small thing out of the book - it is already a success.

I do think the audience here should be a younger more inexperienced readers as many of the things discussed in a book I personally learned in work/education and life.

But nevertheless, it had good points, examples and further research links.

[Eve Ringuette · Rating 2 out of 5]

2,5/5
C'est intéressant, mais beaucoup d'informations qui me semblent logiques et basiques. Peut être pertinent pour les gens qui sont socialement malaisant ou peu conscient des nombreux éléments qui influencent le quotidien.

[Danielle Paquette-Harvey · Rating 3 out of 5]

I'd say some of the tips given by the book are good, but overall it doesn't go deep enough.

[Fabiola Llama · Rating 4 out of 5]

Finished in a day so 4 stars

[Paolaaamn · Rating 2 out of 5]

Realmente me quedan unas 40 páginas para terminarlo pero me rindo. Hasta ahora no siento que me haya dicho nada nuevo, simplemente se dedica a decir que se puede leer y saber cómo es una persona por sus expresiones faciales y su postura corporal (gracias por la información que casi todo el mundo sabe) pero no dice cómo hacerlo.

[Cesar Loya · Rating 5 out of 5]

Definitely a great book for analyzing a person

This was a solid book.
This book kept me engaged the entire time.
It was insightful as to how to interpret: facial expressions (micro and macro) , social media accounts, word choice , trivial hypothetical questions that reveal a person's values , morals and mindset. If you study this book, you'll be pretty decent at analyzing others.

[Brittany · Rating 3 out of 5]

2.5 Had some interesting parts especially towards the end but the constant reminders that reading people isnt an exact science became very grating. I also would have appreciated references to studies and other sources of information to delve into sections deeper.

[Em read_em_andweep · Rating 1 out of 5]

Basically the shit superficial parts of my psych degree. The guy reading the Audio book is incredibly boring and has no emotion to his tone, which is ironic given that Patrick discusses that in his book.

[Luca Jones · Rating 1 out of 5]

It’s all common sense.

[Nadine · Rating 1 out of 5]

Super boring and superficial

[Eman Abdulaziz · Rating 1 out of 5]

Very disappointing, it’s not solid. The topics being covered are generic.

[Henry · Rating 1 out of 5]

What a bunch of horseshit.

[Melissa · Rating 2 out of 5]

I couldn't finish it. I enjoyed the first part of the book and then I just couldn't like the book. Pretty much anything he says that you can use to help understand people, you also can't use it because it may be situational. What kind of contradicts itself in the sense of it's trying to teach you to understand and read people better, but everything he tells you is circumstantial, you have to have enough data points, you have to know people well enough to interpret things correctly.. And you still might be wrong. The book seems a little useless to write because you can never fully read people without understanding.

He gives some tips to be a little Sherlock Holmes, But nothing that is actually really useful.

[Seth Hering · Rating 2 out of 5]

When I first saw this book I was prepared for novel ideas on being able to read people. Unfortunately I did not read one new idea in this book and a lot of it was common sense. There are a few nuggets of gold in it like understanding one’s ego, the pleasure and pain theory, and some others. This book felt more like a long essay on the topic of psychological theories relating to understanding someone. The book is obviously self published with the weird formatting and numerous typos. The largest take away I got from the book is to truly read someone you need to spend time with them and understand their patterns.