It’s actually multiple interviews between Brawn and Parr, resulting in an excellent read, especially for motorsport enthousiasts. The Art of War is a recurring theme, which doesn’t work that well; the search for strategy for its own sake is a bit of a pity. Also, Parr tests his own thinkings as much as he tries […]
Some chapters are slow, others gripping. The suspense rises throughout the 1300 pages, into something so real that every time I want to check the news or Wikipedia for the fictional events happening in the book.
I like Bob’s wisdom, and I loved the beginning phase of the book. But it got repetitive quickly: if you’ve read a few articles you’ve read them all. What doesn’t help is that it’s all cynical and negative feedback.
This book just starts and never holds back. The quality of Capote’s writing is so impeccable, his attention to details in the characters. Capote could write about a sunny day and make it interesting. This book is a world, real — but not the happiest, but one I loved to go back. This book just […]
What sets Sagan (and Cosmos) apart from other science books is the sheer enthusiasm and context he provides. While the book is thick, and some chapters complicated, the storytelling power and ‘the bigger picture’ make this thing a pageturner.
Shadow Puppets is good for Ender’s Game series addicts, albeit it’s quite fast-foody; fast, cheap, okay but that great. Card’s personal views about marriage are very present in this book (outside his books, he’s openly homophobic), but this shouldn’t bother you. If you’d only want to read books that agree with your personal view, your […]
The book is strung together from short paragraphs, containing timeless principles to build wisdom upon. The 170 pages can be read quickly, unless you want to fully grasp the advice given, and visualise the battles and their implications in your mind. There’s no narrative, yet it’s if I’m taking a class and I’m in a […]
As a book it’s not perfect, but the lessons means this book is well worthy of a five star rating to me. The message of ‘wholesomeness’ makes sense of something I felt, but didn’t knew. Success is a merely the byproduct of wellbeing, and that one can’t chase success, but one can find wellbeing.
Great (largely successful) attempt of accessibly applying ancient Chinese philosophy to today. (Just want to put one small FU here to the authors for implying the world is made by humans (and we can therefor alter it) and that environmentalism is nonsense.)
Ender’s Game is one of my favourite books. It’s not that the literary form is of such advanced prose, but the story and the inner-mechanics of the protagonist are par to none. Ender’s Game is a book about rational thoughts and emotional struggles — told through children — which are present in us all.