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yosep's review against another edition
2.0
A terribly boring read.
Although the first few 'secrets' were quite agreeable, as I delved deeper into the book, I found myslef not just disagreeing with several of the 'secrets', but taking a long time to decipher what Niven has written.
This is the first time I have pondered about the editor and questioned the publisher while reading a book.
The writing is simply atrocious. Many of the sentences are made difficult to comprehend with unnecessary use of double negatives to illustrate points and also many of the examples and wrapping final paragraphs seemed to be linked extremely vaguely.
I wanted to stop reading half-way but persevered and ironically, I came across a 'secret', which is to stop doing something that is unprofitable at once, without worrying about not completing the task.
Although the first few 'secrets' were quite agreeable, as I delved deeper into the book, I found myslef not just disagreeing with several of the 'secrets', but taking a long time to decipher what Niven has written.
This is the first time I have pondered about the editor and questioned the publisher while reading a book.
The writing is simply atrocious. Many of the sentences are made difficult to comprehend with unnecessary use of double negatives to illustrate points and also many of the examples and wrapping final paragraphs seemed to be linked extremely vaguely.
I wanted to stop reading half-way but persevered and ironically, I came across a 'secret', which is to stop doing something that is unprofitable at once, without worrying about not completing the task.
maga82's review against another edition
Nie daję oceny, bo w sumie nie jestem w stanie jej dać. Książkę ostatecznie porzuciłąm, gdyż jednak chyba powinnam ją zostawić na faktyczną drugą połowę mojego życia, do której póki co dość daleko więc i rady zapewne stracą na wartości.
cincinim's review against another edition
3.0
The suggestions are very beneficial even though they are very common known things. I have a disappointment for the research section: The statistics doesn't say me anything but just numbers since the references are not stated as a footnote... Particularly, I loved the 23rd topic which is about tomato. As a being tomato hater, I just become very excited when it is claimed that the cooked tomato might be 2.5 times beneficial to the raw one comparing their lycopene amounts! Overall, the book is O.K but I cannot assert it's worth to read it...
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