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A review by speesh
The Case for Working with Your Hands: Or Why Office Work is Bad for Us and Fixing Things Feels Good by Matthew B. Crawford
2.0
Disappointing.
The premise is a good one, and it began well, and interestingly. But as you read on, you realise, as he seems to do as well, that there isn't really a lot more to say, than he's already said in the book's title.
There are interesting little passages dotted about the book, and whilst arguing for the book's main premise, he manages to remain objectively detached. Perhaps a little too detached, because some irrational passion might have enlivened things somewhat.
As a book, it would be better suited as an essay (which it may well have begun life as), or as what I believe used to be called in the old days; 'a pamphlet'.
Someone must have told him 'that'd make a good book', but it doesn't. Not for me anyway.
The premise is a good one, and it began well, and interestingly. But as you read on, you realise, as he seems to do as well, that there isn't really a lot more to say, than he's already said in the book's title.
There are interesting little passages dotted about the book, and whilst arguing for the book's main premise, he manages to remain objectively detached. Perhaps a little too detached, because some irrational passion might have enlivened things somewhat.
As a book, it would be better suited as an essay (which it may well have begun life as), or as what I believe used to be called in the old days; 'a pamphlet'.
Someone must have told him 'that'd make a good book', but it doesn't. Not for me anyway.