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Going by mentions in this thread, I rarely put a book down once I've started it but Antifragile was one of them. Somehow I couldn't get through it, though I don
by lucb1e 7y ago
Going by mentions in this thread, I rarely put a book down once I've started it but Antifragile was one of them. Somehow I couldn't get through it, though I don't remember what was so bad about it.
The Circle is "preaching to the church" as we say. Anyone who reads that book already is aware of all the concerns it raises. The one thing it doesn't do is answer the question whether it might be a good thing and indeed force us to be better if everything is recorded all the time. It's open ended. There is literally no point to reading this book, and on top of that the first 2/3rds are written like a third grader might write a report of a very dull person's life.
Not sure I've read many other books that I ended up hating. For example, Dan Ariely's Dollars and Sense was as average as his Predictably Irrational was good/entertaining, but I didn't hate it.