Month: July 2019

2.9 Stars. This book is a New York Times Best Seller for a reason, people just love a rant. That’s why we all pretend not to read the comment section on reddit or youtube, but in reality the voyeurism really gets us going. And to those people this must be insightfully, earth-shattering, even awesome–like I said it’s a NYT Best Seller for a reason– but it doesn’t mean it’s actually good. TSAoNGaF is basically what would have happened had I stumbled across a blog that was mildly entertaining and decided to binge read it for two weeks straight. And, honestly, this extended blog post was not worth 200 pages of conveying the same thing on repeat.

I wish he had footnotes, or at least an index, to direct you to his sources. The constant “as this one dude once said” followed by a quote with no indication of where it came from was not my favorite. I think it’s because I have read all this stuff in school in the form of scientific reports and journals (which unlike comment sections and blog rants, are unexciting unless you’re a nerd). But if I had happened to find a concept I liked, I wanna know to which of the hundreds of works that particular person published I should refer. I imagine this book changed the lives of thousands, perhaps even millions, but I don’t get the hype.

There were few grammatical mistakes, and I’d say it was well-written but there were terrible metaphors for dumbing things down and sometimes he would forget that his main premise was centered around the f-word and then all of a sudden remember. BOOM, closing paragraph of each section = f*ck x 30. It was exhausting, really.