Daniel

A bit heavy on biblical references but absolutely superb overall

Great book with great info. Super repetitive however, and not necessarily in the way you'd think but it's like the book is constantly marketing itself. Instead of an overview of the book in the first chapter, it's like the book is giving overviews throughout the book. “As you'll see in chapter X” is repeated about a million times (more or less).

5 stars for material, with a 2 star deduction for wasting my time with useless repetition.

Her writing style is so captivating. It's a book about people and it tells a good story. I wish George RR Martin had left me feeling as fulfilled with his first book. This is not a read that overwhelms with characters and doesn't resolve a large plot . It's captivating and well written.

Repetitive AF. As most of these books it can be distilled to almost nothing. Yeah the advice is 5 stars but it doesn't mean the book is

I really liked this book in the beginning but the ending was not satisfying. Some things were too far fetched, and it felt she was wrapping up just for the sake of wrapping up. Also the format of jumping between two different pasts was also confusing.

This book was way better than I expected. Unlike previous works like Remote which I found rather repetitive at times, this book was packed with goodies and common sense tips for how a business should be run. Frankly I regret never having applied to 37signals after having read this book. I was an early adapter of Ruby to boot (I wrote my first pages in 2002, 3 years before the first version of rails).

Didn't see the fuss about this book. Good buildup but the end just Meh

I like the test at the end but I think the overall strategy is more difficult to read than tsumego type problems (of which there are an abundance) so the more valuable tests would have been more battle strategies. All in all, I feel the battle strategies chamber should be longer since its the hardest to find resources on. Furthermore, it's also the title of the book.

At times I thought the conclusions reached were not so scientific that Mo had liked. He's very particular about the science behind things, but I ended up feeling there were gaps in reasoning.
At other times I found the story to be moving and compelling. Finally I don't see the science necessarily being as necessary as the peacefulness one can achieve in the pursuit of happiness.

I found the epilogue to be especially touching. All in all, it was a great story.

Been following Martin for 8 years. Great articles and a great book. Intermittent fasting is now a thing and he was a pioneer

A lot of interesting information about Leonardo in this book. However, there are definitely places where information is repeated, and sometimes it feels the author is adding words for simply the sake of adding words. It's far more long-winded than it needs to be

Crazy

First, thanks to my friend Elaine who recommended this book. I've had so much more success with meditation in general when I deviate from some fixated path of posture and concentration which so many other methods teach. This book talks about looking past all that; looking deeper

First, thanks to my friend Elaine who recommended this book. I've had so much more success with meditation in general when I deviate from some fixated path of posture and concentration which so many other methods teach. This book talks about looking past all that; looking deeper

Neil Gaiman knows how to spin a tale and he's skilled at storytelling. Unfortunately, the main plot is weak, and many of the plots don't really seem to lead anywhere. With a big book like this, it's a big undertaking and takes a lot of time to go through it, and at the end you hope to get more out of it.

Too repetitive but has some good things

Legal history is interesting. Some parts are extremely disturbing. As usual the judge has ample court cases and historical records to draw on for his conclusions

very inspirational for me. I had some real insights with this book and as a result ended up blissful on multiple occasions

very convincing research. I learned a lot about the ecosystem that we have in the stomach and the impacts this has both on general health and on the brain. astonishing work.

This is a must read! Lots of things to think about and new things I hadn't considered despite being brief in text. Very interesting.

Lovely. Absolutely lovely; like his other works.

This book was really stupid. I kept reading it because I could not not read a book which has a Commodore 64 in it and lots of other neat stuff. While that did make up for many things, it didn't nearly make up enough. The book had a very terrible plot line, the “bad guy” was far too obvious and uninspired. There was little character development to speak of, in fact, most characters were rather shallow. If you want to read it, count on reading almost all of the book before there's any revelation as to what the main plot is. Sadly. Some parts were funny, others silly, and some downright stupid. So much for trusting all the good reviews.

Amazing writing. She has a way with words that's unparalleled.

Fantastic book. Very inspirational and there was a lot of things to learn in this book. I enjoyed it all the way to the end.

There are two reasons I didn't think this book deserved a five star which isn't surprising many people give it. My reasons are pretty basic too.

1. There's simply a lot of fluff. The added stories are relevant and add to his point, but there's still a lot of fluff around what he's trying to get across.

2. it really annoyed me when he talked about Lincoln as he cared about slaves. There were several other passages about famous people (or notorious as Lincoln is more aptly described) that I also didn't agree with. Lincoln was one of the most hated presidents ever during his time.

“I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in anyway the social and political equality of the white and black races - that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believed will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality.”

- Lincoln during his fourth debate with Stephan Douglas - Sept. 18, 1858



That said, the actual material itself and the lessons are worth five stars.