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The good An interesting look at the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century in America, including immigration, farming, chain gangs, th...

The core message of this book, which is outlined in the first chapter, is a good one: in the modern world, we are overloaded with choices and companies competing ...

This book is a flat list of advice on how to run a company. I found some of the advice to be insightful: Your company is a product. In fact, it should be...

A book with some interesting ideas in it, but who is it for? Who is the target audience? It covers topics from weight loss to retirement planning to privatizing m...

A historical fiction about the 300 Spartans who stood against over 2 million soldiers from the Persian army at the Battle of Thermopylae. The good: Terrific ...

I found the style of this book off putting (a weird cross of pseudo-spiritual guru + self-help book), but the content is pretty good. I agree with many of the cor...

Interesting premise, the typical John Corey humor, but all of it ruined by a stereotypical monologuing villain. This villain is brilliant, outsmarts the good guys...

For some reason, this is categorized as a business book, has a business book intro, and uses a business book writing style… Even though the content is applicable ...

I’m a bit torn on this one. On the one hand, it involves a real-world mystery (the crash of TWA flight 800), lots of interesting detective work, and the typical J...

Did not finish. I found every character intolerable and while I think the book was trying to be absurdist and humorous, I only found the former, and not the latt...