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675 reviews for:
Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock (THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER)
Jenny Odell
3.82 AVERAGE
675 reviews for:
Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock (THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER)
Jenny Odell
3.82 AVERAGE
challenging
informative
inspiring
reflective
relaxing
slow-paced
Another Jenny Odell book that changed my life!! This book started with “time is a colonial construct” and ended with ego death. Wow.
As with How to Do Nothing, I expect to be thinking about this book for a long time. Who defines time and productivity? How does that intersect with race, privilege, culture, nature, climate and language? All the simple questions!
A ponderous tome. I found it difficult to keep my attention on this book, which felt like an uninterrupted stream of consciousness. Though I agreed with many of Odell’s points (and even more so, the points made in all of the included quotations), I found this book uninspiring and lacking the spark of ingenuity found in How to do Nothing.
informative
reflective
informative
slow-paced
This book was fine but I felt like it over explained and might have benefited from being shorter so that the reader cold have space to think about what things meant themselves. It fet like there was a little too much of everything to feel like there was a cohesive point. Still it was an interesting topic, however.
Could not get through this book as the writing was so dry and overstuffed with external sources and anecdotes that it felt like there was no coherent message. A few interesting and thought provoking ideas about our fixation on time and productivity, but I’m not interested in reading hundreds of pages worth of academic literature disguised as nonfiction.
there were a few good nuggets but the rest was hard to get through -- almost too much content to get through for the good nuggets
slow-paced
informative
reflective
medium-paced