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The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
5.0
Hilarious!
Really enjoyed reading this. There are two stories being told simultaneously. The first follows 100 year old Allan Carlson as he escapes his nursing home and accidentally ends up being hunted by a narcotics gang and the police force. It's full of crazy mishaps and loveable oddball characters and an elephant and an Alsatian to round out the group. The second is the life of Allan Carlson from 1905 to 2005. This part is a bit like Forrest Gump but with way more presidents. In the course of a lifetime Carlson meets both Truman and LBJ, Stalin, Mao, Churchill, and DeGaul. And at every meeting it seems completely reasonable give then circumstances and Everything that happens so far.
This is a fun, feel good read that you won't regret reading.
Really enjoyed reading this. There are two stories being told simultaneously. The first follows 100 year old Allan Carlson as he escapes his nursing home and accidentally ends up being hunted by a narcotics gang and the police force. It's full of crazy mishaps and loveable oddball characters and an elephant and an Alsatian to round out the group. The second is the life of Allan Carlson from 1905 to 2005. This part is a bit like Forrest Gump but with way more presidents. In the course of a lifetime Carlson meets both Truman and LBJ, Stalin, Mao, Churchill, and DeGaul. And at every meeting it seems completely reasonable give then circumstances and Everything that happens so far.
This is a fun, feel good read that you won't regret reading.
You Are Not So Smart: Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook, Why Your Memory Is Mostly Fiction, and 46 Other Ways You're Deluding Yourself by David McRaney
1.0
This book is clever and interesting at times but on the whole just frustrated me. A lot of the concepts and research discussed have been oversimplified and are presented as though they were the consensus views of the psychological discipline. Even within the same fields of psychology questions about how people think and act are hotly contested, so when the writer starts pulling together elements of behavioural psychology, social psychology, and personality theory it's completely incongruent.
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
1.0
Aldous Huxley excels in world building during the first few chapters of this book. The world he sets up, in its different classes, in the way that people are both born and shaped to fit their position in life, the different social rules are all so exciting and interesting. But the characters and story being told don't seem to live up to the world they fill.
Angels & Demons by Dan Brown
1.0
This book isn't one that really stuck in my head, except for remembering how much I disliked how the characters were written. They were all just a bit blah. I didn't hate anybody, I didn't root for anybody. I was not compelled in anyway to find out more about them and they had no compelling reasons for their actions.
Freakonomics [Revised and Expanded]: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
2.0
I didn't enjoy this book and I don't really understand the fanaticism that surrounds it.
Way too much of the book is spent telling you how awesome one of the writers is. Like at least two chapters of the book are about his brilliance. The topics they've chosen to focus on aren't compelling and gloss over broader problems. The reiteration of their abortion saves lives anecdote (of which they are obviously proud of and think ver clever) is a bit off-putting regardless of where you stand on that debate. And given the heavy reliance on correlations it's hard to see how they can draw such bold conclusions.
Basically I just don't get why this book is such a phenomenon.
Way too much of the book is spent telling you how awesome one of the writers is. Like at least two chapters of the book are about his brilliance. The topics they've chosen to focus on aren't compelling and gloss over broader problems. The reiteration of their abortion saves lives anecdote (of which they are obviously proud of and think ver clever) is a bit off-putting regardless of where you stand on that debate. And given the heavy reliance on correlations it's hard to see how they can draw such bold conclusions.
Basically I just don't get why this book is such a phenomenon.