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A review by ashleylm
The Art of Logic: How to Make Sense in a World that Doesn't by Eugenia Cheng
2.0
I don't think I'm the target market for this book (which is "ironic" because prior to reading it I was certain that I was the ideal customer for it).
It's okay, but I was expecting to learn something, and it's very, very basic--at least to me. I didn't think I was a logic expert, but you learn something new every day. It's like reading a cookbook that starts out by explaining how you can mix various ingredients together in different ways, and sometimes heat them, and it will make all this interesting food, and kind of does that for 100 pages or so, to begin with. That's how I felt reading this book. There were no new concepts for me, so halfway through the book I stopped.
There's one very good joke in the first half ... I actually laughed out loud when I read it. Sadly, no one I know (so far) has gotten it, they just stare at me like I'm a crazy person, forcing me to explain the joke (which kills it. Humor never survives explanation). So I appreciate that, at least.
Too simple, no new information, apparently written for 4th graders. Sadly, not for me (and I loved her book on Infinity and found some of it, gasp, beyond my ken, so this is a surprising turn of events.)
(Note: 5 stars = amazing, wonderful, 4 = very good book, 3 = decent read, 2 = disappointing, 1 = awful, just awful. I'm fairly good at picking for myself so end up with a lot of 4s).
It's okay, but I was expecting to learn something, and it's very, very basic--at least to me. I didn't think I was a logic expert, but you learn something new every day. It's like reading a cookbook that starts out by explaining how you can mix various ingredients together in different ways, and sometimes heat them, and it will make all this interesting food, and kind of does that for 100 pages or so, to begin with. That's how I felt reading this book. There were no new concepts for me, so halfway through the book I stopped.
There's one very good joke in the first half ... I actually laughed out loud when I read it. Sadly, no one I know (so far) has gotten it, they just stare at me like I'm a crazy person, forcing me to explain the joke (which kills it. Humor never survives explanation). So I appreciate that, at least.
Too simple, no new information, apparently written for 4th graders. Sadly, not for me (and I loved her book on Infinity and found some of it, gasp, beyond my ken, so this is a surprising turn of events.)
(Note: 5 stars = amazing, wonderful, 4 = very good book, 3 = decent read, 2 = disappointing, 1 = awful, just awful. I'm fairly good at picking for myself so end up with a lot of 4s).