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tintinintibet's review
3.0
Collections like these are difficult since some of the essays can be great and others weak. But here I found that two thirds of them were very good. However, I didn't realize that Seabrook has had most (if not all) of these essays in the New Yorker. They're good, but New Yorker readers will find this book too familiar.
justusky's review
4.0
A well-written set of articles that one would expect from someone who writes for The New Yorker, but the general themes of invention and innovation were very loosely related to the majority of essays. They were nonetheless entertaining for the most part though in some cases slightly outdated. Either way, the book was enjoyable but in a very different way than I had expected it to be when I first picked it up.
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