Chicken Soup is for the Sucker

These "Chicken Soup" series of books are a money-making racket. They may have started off sincerely with true stories but the books that came later on - for various types of troubled souls- those are a bunch of baloney. All the stories sound fake and contrived and excessively cloying. You can immediately tell they are unnatural happenenings and the stories are fictitious. Also, a lot of stories get repeated across the soul-types. Almost all stories for all soul-types are about war, Christmas or a father who could not say "I love you" to his son. Or a combination of two or more of those themes.

How come we never heard/read about those acts of supreme kindness, colossal transformational ripples across the country, before? And if they are true, why are the places at which they occured not published? All said and done, the syrupiness is enough to tell that the stories are fabricated. The world is not that goody-goody everywhere we look.