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A review by gj377
The Art of Asking: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help by Amanda Palmer
3.0
I will preface this review by saying that I think I really needed to read this book. Amanda Palmer is a force of nature, and this book details the things she's learnt in life about asking for help, about asking for things and not-things in the course of her career, her relationships, and basically any interaction you can have with another human being.
And I needed to read that.
It's also written in such an easy, conversational style, that it didn't feel patronising, or like a lecture - it felt like advice from a friend.
However, the book on a whole was kind of rambling, because of that. There was no coherent narrative, and the timeline jumped around between basically each paragraph, which got a little bit hard to follow. That's kind of its charm, and I guess, a more structured, linear book would have been a different book, and wouldn't have been Amanda Palmer's book.
5/5 for the message. 3/5 for the narrative structure. Would definitely recommend though, this book has something important to tell you - that it's okay to ask for help, and it's okay to ask for not-help, just for something you want, rather than need.
And I needed to read that.
It's also written in such an easy, conversational style, that it didn't feel patronising, or like a lecture - it felt like advice from a friend.
However, the book on a whole was kind of rambling, because of that. There was no coherent narrative, and the timeline jumped around between basically each paragraph, which got a little bit hard to follow. That's kind of its charm, and I guess, a more structured, linear book would have been a different book, and wouldn't have been Amanda Palmer's book.
5/5 for the message. 3/5 for the narrative structure. Would definitely recommend though, this book has something important to tell you - that it's okay to ask for help, and it's okay to ask for not-help, just for something you want, rather than need.