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A review by astrape
101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think by Brianna Wiest
2.0
2,5
Now, where to begin?
See what I did there?
Oh my was this hard to finish. I can now assure that not having a physical copy of a book is not for me.
I have to say it did not start off with the wrong foot but it felt like it for the rest of the book (that rhyme was not on purpose).
First of all, the word "essays" is in the title, so I was expecting something a little bit more... formal? something that didn't include cursing and what seemed like sort of a conversation between the reader and the author, which is nice, but not what the title gives off; hence not what I was looking for.
Second of all, repetition. Now hear me out, I loved how the author managed to deconstruct even more some terms that I thought couldn't be any more dug into. But the amount of times she repeated some of them, repeated the same concepts spelt differently... GOD. 300+ pages could have been 200-
Lastly, I want to believe that this happened as a result of reading an unofficial copy, but I cannot believe the amount of spelling mistakes. I'll just leave it there.
I really enjoyed it though haha. So far, the way I described it, it seems like a piece of sh1t but it is actually not. It gave some interesting thought to certain topics that I had never really considered, the so called "food for thought".
Also, I feel like the entire 69th essay was written for me, I'm not even joking. Felt personally attacked.
Anyways, I took this as every "self-help" book should be taken: with a ✨pinch of salt✨.
I would only recommend it to people who have a minimum sense of direction in regards to where they're heading towards in life, because I feel like people who don't have an (in)formed opinion would be highly influenced by the author's thoughts, which are not bad (I agreed with most of them), but there is not one big truth about how to live life.
Now, where to begin?
See what I did there?
Oh my was this hard to finish. I can now assure that not having a physical copy of a book is not for me.
I have to say it did not start off with the wrong foot but it felt like it for the rest of the book (that rhyme was not on purpose).
First of all, the word "essays" is in the title, so I was expecting something a little bit more... formal? something that didn't include cursing and what seemed like sort of a conversation between the reader and the author, which is nice, but not what the title gives off; hence not what I was looking for.
Second of all, repetition. Now hear me out, I loved how the author managed to deconstruct even more some terms that I thought couldn't be any more dug into. But the amount of times she repeated some of them, repeated the same concepts spelt differently... GOD. 300+ pages could have been 200-
Lastly, I want to believe that this happened as a result of reading an unofficial copy, but I cannot believe the amount of spelling mistakes. I'll just leave it there.
I really enjoyed it though haha. So far, the way I described it, it seems like a piece of sh1t but it is actually not. It gave some interesting thought to certain topics that I had never really considered, the so called "food for thought".
Also, I feel like the entire 69th essay was written for me, I'm not even joking. Felt personally attacked.
Anyways, I took this as every "self-help" book should be taken: with a ✨pinch of salt✨.
I would only recommend it to people who have a minimum sense of direction in regards to where they're heading towards in life, because I feel like people who don't have an (in)formed opinion would be highly influenced by the author's thoughts, which are not bad (I agreed with most of them), but there is not one big truth about how to live life.