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I thought it was great. You might want to try the audiobook.
by gnarbarian 5y ago
I thought it was great. You might want to try the audiobook.
- qwerty456127 5y agoI have no doubt it is great. And my life is not enough to read all the great books I want to, even if I were not ADHD, slow reader and generally overwhelmed. Why should I pick this one if I know what it is about already (and have in fact already started reading it once)? What will I find there that will make me feel glad I've actually read it? Can you come up with a curious quote from there perhaps? I mean a quote which a person understanding the concept can still find interesting.
- gnarbarian 5y agoI also have ADD. (it took me 16 years to graduate college medicated.) This book is profoundly interesting and will give you many fun thought experiments and examples. This book sunk its teeth into me and I could not put it down. It's so much more than the basic concept You may already understand.
- bloak 5y agoI read about a quarter of it and regret the time I wasted. It's interesting to look at the Amazon reviews: most of the reviews give 5 stars, but if you look at the 1-star reviews you'll see that there is a significant minority of reviewers with opinions like this one, for example: "It's an overrated book that is unnecessarily long. It will suffice to read the book blurb as the rest is repetitive explanation of the same topic with endless examples." To me it is an interesting psychological phenomenon that people find the book worth reading. Perhaps someone should write a book about that ...
- qwerty456127 5y ago> unnecessarily long... repetitive explanation of the same topic with endless examples. This is what I actually find most of even the best books to be. This is why I am asking (also because I believe most of the people here know what this book is about and many of them have actually read it).