Blog, Page 49

The good It’s Brandon Sanderson, so you get great writing, exciting action, and fully-realized characters. Unique premise: Stephen Leeds is a g...

The good An interesting look at the Chicago World’s Fair (AKA World’s Columbian Exposition) from 1893, where they managed to assemble some astonishing ar...

I can see why this book is so famous. It’s one of those rare business books that has no filler material: it’s concise, to the point, and stuffed full of powerful ...

Did not finish. I got about 1/3rd of this book and realized I wasn’t entirely sure what I was reading anymore. There’s some sort of poem? And a line-by-line criti...

Well written story of the insane things human beings can survive.

The good Starts of really strong: a big mystery and tight pacing makes the book hard to put down. Cool and somewhat unique premise, at least as far as time ...

A delightful children’s story I never got to read as a child, but was able to now. Cute characters, hilarious “gobblefunk” language (delumptious human beans, slos...

There is some really good content buried in this book… But to find it, you’ll have to wade through some sappy, cheesy, self-congratulatory dialogs with an imagina...

A nice overview of some of the key decisions that every entrepreneur has to make: decisions that are more important than most founders expect, decisions where the...

The good A detailed and comprehensive history of how the first atomic bombs were developed, including all the scientific discoveries that led up to it, t...