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The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future
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Review Date: 7/7/2020
I applaud Chris Guillebeau for his efforts to collect stories and data from around the world and organizing them well instead of simply casting off advice and anecdotes from the top of his head. This book offers a really solid chunk of information and advice, focused on ordinary people, not superhumans or stellar idols, who were often motivated by unexpected life challenges or opportunities to start a business. The book is grounded in reality and connects with readers' aspirations. Excellent!
Review Date: 11/19/2014
Plain and simple, this is a masterpiece.
You can read and enjoy it just for the story line, which involves lonely characters who connect with one another in a world that has turned uncanny on them. Or you can ponder deeper metaphysical questions about reality along with the author and the characters.
I think you have to be an introvert and willing to suspend belief about abnormal events to appreciate what Murakami has to offer. But this work is rich, involving and perfectly constructed.
Don't be surprised when Murakami wins the Nobel Prize eventually.
You can read and enjoy it just for the story line, which involves lonely characters who connect with one another in a world that has turned uncanny on them. Or you can ponder deeper metaphysical questions about reality along with the author and the characters.
I think you have to be an introvert and willing to suspend belief about abnormal events to appreciate what Murakami has to offer. But this work is rich, involving and perfectly constructed.
Don't be surprised when Murakami wins the Nobel Prize eventually.
The 4-Hour Chef: The Simple Path to Cooking Like a Pro, Learning Anything, and Living the Good Life
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Book Type: Hardcover
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Review Date: 12/10/2020
It's hard to express how terrible a book it is. It's an incoherent mishmash of a lot of self-important anecdotes and tips that skip around like crazy from topic to topic. It's an almost random collection of sidebars, not a coherent book. I can't believe that anyone who's not ADD could get anything at all out of The 4-Hour Chef.
Review Date: 1/12/2023
Outstanding, very suspenseful, and while it's a bit similar to John Grisham's "The Firm," as noted in a cover blurb, it has enough distinctive Washington DC background to seem different as well. Highly recommended if you like US-based political thrillers.
Review Date: 4/21/2022
This book seemed like an average, enjoyable Eve/Roarke & crew story until several surprising turns about 2/3 of the way through. Then it really picked up steam and momentum. In the end: very well done. I'll continue to read this series!
Review Date: 5/29/2021
Distinctive characters who are not believable in the slightest. And a cliched plot. I will therefore not read another book by this author!
Review Date: 7/20/2014
wow, what a thriller. very exciting! not predictable at all.
Review Date: 5/11/2012
This is one of the few thrillers I've read where most of the characters could be people I know - or who live around me and I don't know. Very chilling, absorbing and mostly believable.
The Accidental Millionaire: How to Succeed in Life Without Really Trying
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Book Type: Paperback
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Review Date: 10/11/2015
Loved this book! Offbeat stories about growing up as a first generation American of Asian parents (one Korean, one Chinese) and the surprising lessons life taught him about money and success.
Review Date: 3/25/2020
An emotionally complex story told in simple language about a girl growing up poor in Mexico who finally comes to terms with the heartbreaking events of her childhood. Powerful and moving.
Review Date: 3/26/2017
Suspenseful, engrossing, well-plotted, unpredictable, believable. A fine international thriller.
The Algebra of Happiness: Notes on the Pursuit of Success, Love, and Meaning
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Review Date: 6/24/2020
I did not like this book one bit! It reads like an endless graduation speech. Superficial but trying hard to be profound and witty. The author is too flippant or sardonic about important topics for my taste. Maybe the book was designed to appeal to 20-year-olds, which I am not.
Review Date: 4/5/2021
Superb. I found it fascinating the way Krentz created a slightly alternate universe with social institutions centered around psychic powers. Here's to her imagination! The book kept my interest on almost every page.
Review Date: 11/30/2018
I adored "Norwegian by Night," as a charming mystery with vivid characters and lots of cultural insights. This sort-of-sequel was disappointing. There's some intercultural insight when the Norwegian characters come to the US, but the author brings in US race relations in a very heavy-handed way that spoiled the storytelling. Not a recommended read.
Review Date: 3/2/2020
Helpful Score: 6
Please be aware before you order or buy this book that it has been fiercely criticized by many American Latino authors and critics for harmful stereotypes of Mexicans, for having taken some scenes from other authors and for having received a huge publishers' advance when Latino authors who have more authentic stories grounded in their own experiences and observations struggle to feed themselves. Yes, it may be an exciting story but completely from the American white person's point of view. Personally, I found it inferior to the Mexican-produced telenovelas I sometimes watch.
Review Date: 9/7/2019
A lot of unexpected aspects to this book. Even if you've read a lot of spy novels, this one is different, in its premise, its hazy politics, its psychology and its plotting. Many surprises; many plot turns revealed in a single sly sentence here or there. The writing style is extremely confident and accomplished. I would read the next book by this author in a heartbeat!
Review Date: 3/18/2020
A gothic tale - longwinded and engrossing - in which the city of Barcelona is as much a character as the people you meet within its pages. Long but never boring!
Review Date: 7/23/2012
This novel appears to be an allegory about racial identity. It was too subtle for me and I did not follow it, although I read it all the way to the end. Disappointing.
Review Date: 3/13/2022
What an enjoyable read! I smiled my way through the book, even when the characters were going through something unhappy. Its narration of the dynamics in one family in suburban Australia is warm, affectionate, intimate, relatable and sometimes humorous. Even a minor character, like a hairdresser for the family who gets a page or two, comes across as real and enchanting.
Review Date: 10/22/2021
This whole series is a cut above the average police procedural or crime romance novel. The motivations are well thought out and convincing and the action suspenseful. Interactions between the regular characters are touching, distinct and believable. Brava!
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