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Two hours in, and it turns out that the gist of the book is: realize that you as a parent have feelings, realize that your child has feelings, and realize that they might not be the same. Thank you, Captain Obvious! I dropped it after that, after listening to the introduction of the first story, I wasn't confident I would get anything out of this book.
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency is a ghost-horror-detective-time travel-romantic comedy epic.
Dirk Gently is a …
Deus ex machina in pure form. In every chapter a new non-physical phenomenon is introduced. First an electric monk, then ghosts, time traveling and alien civilizations pop out of the blue into this story.
De moord op een straatjochie in het eind 19e eeuwse Londen zet Sherlock Holmes op …
Geschreven als een typische Sherlock Holmes. De stijl is vergelijkbaar met die van sir Arthur Conan Doyle zelf. De Nederlandse vertaling was helaas niet zo sterk, met slechte zinscontructies an hier en daar storende taalfouten.
What an eye opener! It is about how to have as much impact as possible with a limited amount of time and/or money for doing good in the world, advocated by a movement called Effective Altruism.
The book consists of two parts. The first part is about the principles behind Effective Altruism. Since I was already familiar with these concepts, it was nice to read but not world shocking to me.
The second part is how to bring these principles into action. Even though I had been reading about this before, it still surprised me in how many areas I am actually not following these principles. This part of the book is pure gold.
I think this book is a must-read for everybody who is interested in doing some good in the world, no matter how much.
I now feel like I have been playing around with a chess board …
What an eye opener! It is about how to have as much impact as possible with a limited amount of time and/or money for doing good in the world, advocated by a movement called Effective Altruism.
The book consists of two parts. The first part is about the principles behind Effective Altruism. Since I was already familiar with these concepts, it was nice to read but not world shocking to me.
The second part is how to bring these principles into action. Even though I had been reading about this before, it still surprised me in how many areas I am actually not following these principles. This part of the book is pure gold.
I think this book is a must-read for everybody who is interested in doing some good in the world, no matter how much.
I now feel like I have been playing around with a chess board and pieces all my life, making up my own rules, and am now finally learning the rules of chess from this book.
If anyone is interested in reading this book for themselves, there are several places where you can get a free copy, e.g.
- www.effectivealtruism.org/
- 80000hours.org/book-giveaway/
A chilling, globe-spanning detective story, tracking an elite group of Russian hackers and the future …
The way this book is written makes you want to continue to read to know what's next. Multiple times, I've been wondering whether all of this has been real.
Dune is a 1965 science-fiction novel by American author Frank Herbert, originally published as two …
The world building was great, but the story not so much. The synopsis has potential, the setting is original, but yet, after 21 hours of listening, I never had the feeling I was pulled into a story.
In this thought-provoking book, Tobias Leenaert leaves well-trodden animal advocacy paths and takes a fresh …
Actually it all makes such sense what he's talking about, but still nice to listen to. I especially like his explanation for "attitude follows behavior".
A must-have resource for anyone who lives or works with young kids, with an introduction …
I found the tips useful, and love the tons of examples that come with it. The same tips come back over and over again, which is good, it shows how to use them in different circumstances. Somehow I found the tone of voice and storytelling over-the-top American, so a bit off-putting for a European.
Very interesting, engagingly told by the author. Not the deepest in music theory, more about biographies of composers than I had anticipated.
I love how entertaining the book is while it still does a good job in explaining some advanced moral philosophy topics.
I had expected a very broad book about a lot of different stuff, like Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything. Instead, this book took me by positive surprise by explaining what science has to say about the big things in life. It's more a philosophy book than a science book, giving science a place in human life. I especially like the vocabulary of poetic naturalism, an idea that I already embraced but didn't know had a name.
The title is perfect. I had expected a book how to be a better scout, but it is a book about how to get in the mindset of being a better scout. Julia Galef illustrates her points with tonnes of anecdotes and snippets from the internet, which wouldn't hold up to make proper rational arguments, but are perfect to illustrate her point and paint the picture.
Eating Animals is the third book by the American novelist Jonathan Safran Foer, published in …
Even though I knew what I would be getting into, I still felt from time to time a physical discomfort in my stomach when reading (listening to) this book. This book offers yet another hard and painful realization how bad the meat industry is. After some time, the facts in the book will disappear from my mind, but the feeling will remain.
Interesting and surprising points, although not something that really stucks to your mind when you're not in the field.
