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librarian4life55 's review for:
Notes on a Nervous Planet
by Matt Haig
This book made me anxious. Fortunately it’s a mercifully quick read, despite being just over 300 pages. How did the author manage to fill 300 pages without really saying much at all? With waffling repetition. Why use one example to illustrate a point when you can use three, or five, or ten (see, it’s annoying! I’ve never rolled my eyes so much in my life!) However this does mean that you can skim read entire paragraphs and even skip entire sections of repetitive numbered lists, and pages of reproduced tweets.
At about the halfway point the book does improve slightly with some insightful sections such as ‘Algorithms eat empathy’ and those on sleep. But still Haig over labours every point.
I never have and probably never will write a book and therefore am not really in any position to judge the efforts of those who have. A book must be truly awful for me to award less than two stars - one, for the effort of writing the book and two, for making someone believe in it enough to publish it. This one doesn’t earn the first star because I don’t consider this frantic rambling a good writing style. Bonus point though for mentioning and recommending It’s A Wonderful Life. I would also recommend it before I would recommend this book. Onto the donation pile!
At about the halfway point the book does improve slightly with some insightful sections such as ‘Algorithms eat empathy’ and those on sleep. But still Haig over labours every point.
I never have and probably never will write a book and therefore am not really in any position to judge the efforts of those who have. A book must be truly awful for me to award less than two stars - one, for the effort of writing the book and two, for making someone believe in it enough to publish it. This one doesn’t earn the first star because I don’t consider this frantic rambling a good writing style. Bonus point though for mentioning and recommending It’s A Wonderful Life. I would also recommend it before I would recommend this book. Onto the donation pile!