therunnerman
A Canadian book more Canadian than the average in Canada that tells the real Canada behind closed doors. With the author being American that's impressive. It's a prequel to two novels with plenty of gore and humor which is an odd mix. Tim Horton's is dogshit, maybe it’s location dependent but the coffee at all the locations near me is just sewer water but it's very Canadian seeing it mentioned frequently as the drink of choice of Jean-Max.
A book full of internal struggles with a police duo that is struggling to make sense of encroaching corruption that threatens their livelihoods. It's a great Oedipus journey as the police are constantly forced to draw blurred lines in the sand to get their perp inside and outside the law asking the moral question who is right and who is wrong.
Five stars for every chapter written by Lynn, three for those written by Dorion, and four for the duo.
A great book to start of learning about zydeco and the various cultures and people behind it. Tisserand seemed to do a decent job of interviewing everyone involved and getting himself into the scene. The only thing that I found kind of odd and interrupted my reading was the fact that, on a few occasions, the same person or event is introduced twice within the span of a few pages. This could have been intentional but seemed like an editor's error.
Amazed that there aren't any reviews for this one... I'm still reading it, to be honest, but I'm really into it. This hits that really cool point in religious studies writing where stereotypes, races, genders, and cultures are all taken correctly into account and seen as real factors on the development of religion. It does get a little intense at points: it's clear that Rosenberg does not identify as an agrarian Baptist southerner, but, given the lack of similar works, it has a responsibility to be a little over-the-top in introducing so many principles and facts of the Southern Baptist tradition which are probably obvious for someone deeply involved, but rather opaque to the outside world.
Simply didn't congeal into anything ‘useful' in the realm of personal philosophy or understanding. But interesting tidbits scattered throughout it.
I loved this book - it's readable and unique, with articles about fundamental elements of the mall by the people who built and designed them.
Well, it's an interesting topic and there was certainly research done. Unfortunately, at least the eBook edition of this is a copyediting disaster.
It's pretty good, but like many ‘business books', could be half as long and retain all the meaning.
This is not a great work of nonfiction: it's a quickly-written ode to Emily Post, with updates for the modern era. And it's passable, for the first few chapters. It takes a turn at Chapter 7. Maybe the copyeditor stopped there, or another author swapped in, and at that point the number of grammar and style errors skyrockets. The effect is worsened by the prose, which, in the pattern of Post, goes over the top with its old-fashioned turns of phrase.
The bad: like the other business / sales books I've read, it spends almost half of its pages just telling you how good the book is. It reassures you that, yep, this will increase your sales, just as it did for Bill and Barbara.
The good: this is like looking though the eyes of The Corporation. The book will give you their take on why car companies shouldn't invest too much in seatbelts, why arbitration clauses are good, how you must avoid giving the impression of firing-with-cause, and so on. Not that you'll agree with (or should agree with) any of that, but, well, it's interesting to hear those points so clearly made.
Surprisingly accessible. Definitely an interesting perspective on power and attachment in (everybody's, including god's) action.
Solid and influential. The last 20% is pretty well-known if you're into technology, but the middle section and the account of signal analysis is excellent.
This book really sucked. There aren't many books that I've given up on halfway through, but this was one of them. He was either misinformed or uninformed the whole way through, and somehow it became a bestseller.
This novel seems like several novels, since it's not only ‘one of those ones that weaves storylines together' but it also is an amalgamation of styles.
Unfortunately the styles range from quite great to quite lame. I found the peak to be at halfway through, with the pseudo-interview, and then the ‘PowerPoint' section was surprisingly well-executed. However, the ending is unbearably lame to an extreme - not only silly future-thinking but it falls flat stylistically.
That said, it's a quick read and the variety makes it a good quick read - since the shifts in style can serve as anchors for the plots. Recommended for that purpose, but don't come expecting too much depth or dexterity in this one.
Some of the book is typical self-help fare: semi-believable anecdotes from conferences and history. But on the whole it lives up to its reputation as a ambitious but pragmatic system for solving problems and talking about emotions.
Wow. As gripping as it is incredibly sad, in a way that goes so far beyond the mere plot and events. Highly recommended.
Quite enjoyable; I liked this a lot more than Everyman, which was just continually sad. This is more full of life, more interesting on a personal level and probably a bit meta in its character construction.
This is a decent book; a few of the concepts - styles of introducing gaps in knowledge and the idea of ‘commander's intent' were quite useful. However, it too-often falls into the pop-psych mold of “Researchers from X tested whether X is X. The results were surprising” (no citation). The fact that the authors pay all too much credit to Gladwell makes it clear that they haven't woken up to the fact that many readers have grown beyond the enjoyment of such light science and the stratospheric concepts that authors try to wire together. I also wish that this sort of text would focus on one or a few industries or companies because the ‘whoah, this applies to farming and web 2.0 companies' type of rhetoric is old and detracts from the storytelling by requiring too much setup and too little examination of each scene.
My favorite English-language-typographic pedant book. Written with an attitude, like Eats Shoots and Leaves, but with more historical backup and a more amusing tone.