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3.61 AVERAGE
3.61 AVERAGE
One of the worst books I ever tried to read.
This book is just a bunch of bullet points, of simplistic reasoning, incoherent, full of contradictions... It seems like a book for someone who never really thought about life.
The writing is messy, everything is mostly disconnected from the previous stuff. Honestly I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone.
This book is just a bunch of bullet points, of simplistic reasoning, incoherent, full of contradictions... It seems like a book for someone who never really thought about life.
The writing is messy, everything is mostly disconnected from the previous stuff. Honestly I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone.
Edit: I still agree with my previous review, but I cannot deny this book has been one of the most thought-provoking I have read this year. I may think about the relevance and importance of infinite games every single day, so I feel I must give the book five stars for the mere fact this book introduced me to the idea of infinite games.
Previous review: This book swings "pendulumatically" between deep insights--that I have marked and will reflect on for a while--and explorations of clouds--by which I mean vapor-like, nebulous abstractions that I cannot figure out. By the end I would estimate the useful abstractions defeat the confusing abstractions in the finite game of this book. The takeaways of Finite and Infinite Games are metaphors for how we interact with the world. Are we machines? Are we gardeners? Do we choose what we do to expedite the coming of the end of our journeys or to enjoy the journeys? Do we live for ourselves, or do we live for others? And which brings more joy?
(Apparently, "pendulumatically" is not recognized as a word and is unnecessary to the coherence of my sentence, but I like the ring to it and so it stays).
Previous review: This book swings "pendulumatically" between deep insights--that I have marked and will reflect on for a while--and explorations of clouds--by which I mean vapor-like, nebulous abstractions that I cannot figure out. By the end I would estimate the useful abstractions defeat the confusing abstractions in the finite game of this book. The takeaways of Finite and Infinite Games are metaphors for how we interact with the world. Are we machines? Are we gardeners? Do we choose what we do to expedite the coming of the end of our journeys or to enjoy the journeys? Do we live for ourselves, or do we live for others? And which brings more joy?
(Apparently, "pendulumatically" is not recognized as a word and is unnecessary to the coherence of my sentence, but I like the ring to it and so it stays).
"To be prepared against surprise is to be trained. To be prepared for surprise is to be educated."
Really liked the first couple of chapters of this, but then it got either repetitive or overdrawn or something else altogether that made the second half more of a slog to get through. Averaging to three stars. Meh.
Really liked the first couple of chapters of this, but then it got either repetitive or overdrawn or something else altogether that made the second half more of a slog to get through. Averaging to three stars. Meh.
informative
slow-paced
Collection of nonsense statements masquerading as profound insight. I found it intolerable and wanted to leave it unfinished. Also doesn’t necessarily promote Christianity but way to many examples draw from Christian mythology when I wouldn’t exactly call that a solid basis for facts
The idea that oppressed people buy into their oppression has cis white able-bodied Christian man written all over it.
reflective
fast-paced
Unique and had a couple insights out of it but nothing to special
challenging
informative
slow-paced
challenging
reflective
Excellent book. Frames, in an attempt to do so from a kind of first principles, why the only ethical "games" (understood more broadly as endeavors of essentially any kind) are those whose central purpose for existing can be reduced to their perpetuation. Incredible book and one that challenges deeply, like Singer's practical ethics.
I chose this audiobook because leadership writer and YouTube star, Simon Sinek refers to it in his material. Finite and Infinite Games by James P. Carse is a lively and engaging lecture presentation, it is not an actual book. The ideas presented here are very useful in today's world. I would like to see the ideas in this lecture expanded and developed into a book. This recording does not pick up the questions from the audience members clearly enough. It is surprising that the publisher, Simon and Schuster, did not clean up the audience questions or redub them from a transcript. The author presents his material very well. He draws the audience in with humor and offers additional time for Q&A at the end. Overall, I would recommend this in its current form to fans of Simon Sinek and to fans of the author. If this ever does become a book, I believe that I would recommend it to everyone.