The You You Are - Dr. Ricken Lazlo Hale, PhD

The You You Are

By Dr. Ricken Lazlo Hale, PhD

  • Release Date: 2025-01-31
  • Genre: Self-Improvement
Score: 4.5
4.5
From 1,215 Ratings

Description

This book is drawn from the universe of Severance, the globally acclaimed hit Apple Original series from director and executive producer Ben Stiller and creator Dan Erickson.
Are you ready to meet the person who truly makes you “You”: You?

In his quinquennial tome, Dr. Ricken Lazlo Hale, PhD guides You on a brave journey of self-learnedness. Fertile with mind-engorging insights, The You You Are is an invitation to merge with your true “You,” and expel from your essence the dead-eyed conventionalism that has defined your life since infancy.

For the first time ever, Dr. Ricken’s luminous writings are available in digital format, only on Apple Books. Though librarians strongly urge reading his complete oeuvre, this ebook — featuring the inaugural eight chapters from The You You Are — is sure to tickle both the completist and the layman. In addition, enjoy an exclusive letter of apology from the author himself, addressed to none other than YOU.

In Severance, Mark Scout (Adam Scott) leads a team at Lumon Industries, whose employees have undergone a severance procedure, which surgically divides their memories between their work and personal lives. This daring experiment in “work-life balance” is called into question as Mark - a widower who happens to be Dr. Ricken Hale’s brother in law - finds himself at the center of an unraveling mystery that will force him to confront the true nature of his work … and of himself.
 
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Reviews

  • So much fun!!

    5
    By RedBeka
    So much fun!! Occasionally, this book is “accidentally” poignant and wise, but it is always hilarious. The character of Ricken Hale is so well written and masterfully performed by Michael Chernus. He is earnest and good-hearted, while also being painfully obtuse. Thank you for this little glimpse into more of the “Severance” ‘verse!
  • Worth the read

    5
    By Niccologed
    Very funny and original. Really adds to Rickey’s character
  • Play it in the Uber

    5
    By angtwig
    Trust me
  • Fun!

    4
    By kris39
    Enjoyed the series a lot and this had some pretty good one liners that made me lol
  • Nonsense and Delight

    5
    By Timmers
    The man and author Ricken bounds to life from the pages of The You, You Are with glee and abhorrition. It is with true self derision that I have enjoyed this tome. Timmy - The Dove The Scribe The Vestal
  • The I I Am

    5
    By catswine
    From commencement to terminus, this astounding work of elephantine savvy elucidates the inner workings of human consciousness. Dr. Hale Ph.D’s humility precludes explicit acknowledgment of the ingenuity contained twixt the covers of this staggering treatise. In fact, it begins with his assuming culpability for the inability to publish in extenso, a fact for which we must exculpate him in toto. He may regard his own monograph as the musings of some mumbling old hamburger waiter, but surely we must hold him in the same regard as we do the hamburger general manager.
  • Zero stars

    5
    By Jen303
    Love Lumon. But I'll never got the time spent perusing this book back!
  • The mind of a severed individual

    5
    By Jesse"Jay"Garcia
    I like the show and to be able to read what Mark Scott ended up getting as a Christmas gift is an awesome feeling.
  • LOL

    5
    By STM57
    Makes me wish MY brain was severed….
  • Good read

    5
    By experiment12/91
    I actually read this through, it kept my attention. I like the pattern Dr. Ricken placed each chapter, points 1-2 & how it relates to the You! I especially enjoy this totem tactic. I hope the full version is released sooner than later.