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Did NOT like: ‘Captivate: The Science of Succeeding with People.’ I could not finish this audiobook. Super boring with obvious ideas and some ideas that I belie
by kull 8y ago
Did NOT like: ‘Captivate: The Science of Succeeding with People.’ I could not finish this audiobook. Super boring with obvious ideas and some ideas that I believe are not true. For example claiming to talk about somebody’s accent. I am an immigrant in US, this was always very offensive for me somebody points out my accent. I am not bothered by that anymore but it always makes me feel like I don’t belong when somebody points out my foreign accent. I would never recommend it as a conversation starter.
I recommend a book published this year: High Growth Handbook: Scaling Startups from 10 to 10,000 People, by Elad B. Gil
- sethammons 8y agoThinking of 'did NOT like' - The Malazan Empire. Some folks are enthralled. I did the first two or three books in the series and just couldn't go on. I like the premise of "just throwing the reader in." You are just exposed to the world. No explanations. No descriptions to introduce you. It is just this new world. Magic systems, new vocabulary, taken-for-granted understanding of this new place. The problem? No GOTDAM descriptions to introduce you! I think it was the end of book two where they finally give a partial description of a character you've known since the first book: "oh, he had red hair this whole time?" - They introduce other races, but you don't know if they are human or not. In one case, I think you find out they are lizard like after several hundred pages of interacting with them. Maybe if you read the whole series and then start again things will make sense. I don't want that much investment in a leisure activity that was (at the time) making my commute better.