Thanks for your comment. I'm the author of the review. I struggled with this as I wrote the review. How much of the material should I paraphrase? Not being a c

Thanks for your comment. I'm the author of the review. I struggled with this as I wrote the review. How much of the material should I paraphrase? Not being a classicist, and only having a layman's view of things, I felt very uncomfortable trying to put words in the book author's mouth. As you can see from another comment on this thread, from what I've said, I'm already being told that I seriously misrepresented Stoicism (I disagree with that commenter's point, but it's not important). So after some thought I felt that the more I tried to make the review into a tl;dr the more I'd probably screw it up. I put in as much detail as I was comfortable with. If you read down to the bottom of the page, there's a product description from Amazon. It goes over things from a different angle. You can also click on the search box to see what hackers on other technical sites thought of the book. That's just below the review in the box titled "the buzz". As I was researching other reviews before I wrote mine, I found a heckuva lot of detail around exactly what you are asking about. I suggest you give it a couple of clicks and see if your questions aren't all answered. I also didn't want the piece to sound too cheerleading-ish, but heck, I really liked the book. I read 30 or more books a year, and this is probably the best book I've read so far this year. While I have my doubts about lasting impact, what can I say? I really liked it. Not going to lie or exaggerate about that one way or the other.