"I'd also watched too many start-ups struggle with growth and scale and getting the right things done"
"I'd also watched too many start-ups struggle with growth and scale and getting the right things done"
so-soThe book seems somewhat insightful and useful at first but then becomes too repetitive.
'A man called Ove drills a hole for a hook'
Ove hangs himself. Its so sad how lonely he was his entire life after the death of his chemist mother when he was 8 and then his father when he was 16. When he finally found the colours to his black and white life in his wife, Sonja, she also died 6 months back.
so-so"Intuition comes first, strategic reasoning, second."
Some good analogies like elephant and rider..
pick"The secret is how to die"
Another Dan Brown adventure finished ?
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"
-C. Clarke
I don't know why I am reading it. I didn't know I signed up for a history lesson with so many characters and stories so cringe worthy and problematic! #notforme
#letseehowitgoes
Trying audio book for the first time! 🤞
pickIt was a good read. I liked the 1st book better tho. Watched the movie as well(Both angels and demons and the da Vinci code). Movies seem so high paced after reading the very descriptive books of Dan Brown. Intersting book overall.
Reading books which were long overdue feels like the only accomplishment of #2020.
"The most dangerous enemy is that which no one fears"
Janus to killer
pickWow! A book so great and engaging I forgot about everything else. So well written! Almost every chapter ended in a cliffhanger! Un-putdownable!! Great ending as well. Not a single page was mundane or disappointing! Can't wait to read more of Dan Brown.
so-soIt was intersting in the beginning through cognitive and agricultural revolutions but as scientific revolution progressed, towards the end of the book it started feeling like a self help book ( maybe it's just me). I kinda lost interest when it started talking about how to be happy and all. I might have skipped a chapter ot two. Some of the chapters (essentially initial ones) are quite informative and interesting tho
"To be happy is no more and no less than experiencing pleasant bodily sensations"
"Countless Christians, Muslim and Jews have gone so far as to imagine that the good God even needs our help in its struggle against the Devil, which inspired among other things the call for jihads and crusades"
So does that mean the people who aren't Christian, Muslim or Jew are the devils? That's extreme!
Even when polytheists conquered huge empires, they did not try to convert their subjects. The Egyptians, the Romans and the Aztecs did not send missionaries to foreign lands to spread the worship of Osiris, Jupiter or Huitzilopochtli (the chief Aztec God), and they certainly didn't dispatch armies for that purpose.
Osama Bin Laden, for all his hatred of American culture, American religion and American politics, was very fond of American dollars. How did money succeed where gods and kings failed?
Gender is a race in which some of the runners compete only for the bronze medal
Whatever is possible is by definition also natural.
"History is something that very few people have been doing while everyone else was ploughing fields and carrying water buckets."
"you could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven"
pickIt was cool, teenager me would have LOVED it. A light read. I was involved the whole time and I was curious what was going to happen to Angie next! ( I just might read the next book in the series if I feel like it later who knows!)
Okay, how can a 26 year old writer have enough money to live such a lavish life and do such colossal shopping almost everyday??????
How can they afford such a lifestyle? Is everyone rich in Newyork? And they eat out everyday!?!?! Muffins and oreos and cupcakes and whatnot!
(and she is not even a real writer, she is a children's books editor and then blogs for a website)
THIS CAN'T BE. AM I DOING SOMETHING WRONG IN LIFE?
So far, seems okay. A LOTTT like sex and the city! Too many similarities.
The book insists that if you really want something, or if you found your 'personal legend' , just go for it leaving all your other obligations and responsibilities behind and the ones who stayed (like the baker in Tarifa or the crystal glass seller) are almost portrayed as losers. The idea sounds good but doesn't work in reality.
Full of repetitive clichéd one liners and words like omen, universal language, soul of the world..
Not my cup of tea.
panI am not a fan of self help motivational books hence I disliked this book.
Non engaging, struggled to finish the book only to find a disappointment in the end.
Not my taste.
"The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon."
pickNice and engaging. Looking forward to read the last book of the series.
We succeed because of our ability to exploit people. Not because we are do - gooders
-Raavan to Kumbha
so-soCool idea. Hilarious and witty. But gets boring and redundant after a while.
Also, you have to have read the bible (or atleast have an idea about it) before reading it.
pickA great book on so many levels. Such strong characters! The comic strip kind of writing certainly helped dilute the intensity of information and the depiction of situation in Iran and its effects on a young girl like Marji.
I liked the 1st part of the book better.
PS : I love Marjane's parents and grandmom
That day I learned something essential : we can only feel sorry for ourselves when our misfortunes are still supportable...
... Once this limit is crossed, the only way to bear the unbearable is to laugh at it.
- Marjane
I'm all you have in this world, Mariam, and when I'm gone you'll have nothing. You'll have nothing. You *are* nothing! - nana
With all these qualities, and many more ; for another of my qualities is being infinitely qualified; people have often wondered why it was I created the universe, when I could have remained content simply to hover alone as pure spirit contemplating my own divinity.
Because that's not godding, that's why.
Don't ever let anybody tell you they are better than you, Forrest. If God intended everybody to be the same, he'd given us all braces on our legs.
Gump's mother.
(didn't read the book. Quoted from movie)
"All I was afraid of was saying good-bye."
-Mitch
This book has made me feel the emotions that were buried deep inside. I cried my heart out.
