Youth Ministry Books

I've been reading a bunch of youth ministry books lately trying to get up to speed and fill my head with relevant knowledge. While a lot of these books make a lot of good points, I have to say, what a bunch of over-sensitive complainers. I guess that I just don't get it yet, but it seems like a lot of these authors are really negative about their experience.
I got a lot of helpful points out of, "things that they don't teach you about youth ministry that you should know", and then I've started reading doug fields, "your first two years in youth ministry" and it has a lot of good points, but he makes it sound like such an emotional roller coaster. I've also started reading duffy robbins, "this way to youth ministry" and it has kind of the same feel to it.