Welcome to Litsy!

This book spent way too long insulting its readers and not enough time presenting interesting science. I wonder who it‘s for? The author seems to be convinced that everyone who would read it is deeply stupid and she‘s talking about a statistician who says he‘s unpopular at weddings cause he brings up the statistic that 50% of marriages end in divorce. As if that didn‘t just make him rude and dull.

I‘m cleaning up the bottom of my Goodreads Want to Read shelf in preparation for the #Booked2020 #bottomofTBR prompt. Some of the books I added years ago are panned almost universally, with hilariously funny reviews. This is one of those books.

The one review on Litsy is also 👎 for terrible writing, so off the list it goes!

SCIENCE! For only 99¢ in US ebook stores today! What a deal! ?

Vulture took a poll of book critics and posted an extremely thoughtful article: "A Premature Attempt at the 21st Century Canon." Whip smart, argumentative, and dialogue inducing.

http://www.vulture.com/article/best-books-21st-century-so-far.html

Interesting science interspersed with irritating narrative. I could barely focus on the interesting because the irritating was so, well, irritating.

My book needed a walk on the beach.

Morning reading!