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This book really resonated with me and got me thinking of the importance of listening to others, and not just friends but also people who have views different to you. The example of the black man who would befriend members of the Ku Klux Klan and often cause them to renounce their membership was so powerful. As was the section on the psychology of sound and voice which has since caused me to call or leave audio messages for friends on their birthdays.

I really liked the premise of this book, a compilation of scenes from food films including my favourite Tampopo. The scenes with dialog worked really well with the captions but those that were just a collection of stills didn't have the same impact.,

As a recent convert to running this book actually inspired me to run every day like the author.

For a free book and an introduction to domain driven design I can't really fault this. At roughly 100 pages it is more a summary of Eric Evans' famous 500 page book, lacking the detailed examples that are need to fully appreciate and grasp DDD.

This book has left me thinking about the apathy, fatalism and almost the complete lack of affect by the protagonist, Meursault. I understand it is a commentary, as the back of the book says, on the "absurdity of life" but a life without ambition or feeling strikes me as very incongruous.