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I finally finished! It took me two years of reading this book off and on to reach the end. Multiple trips to the library, near-countless days reading one or two pages. I took copies of this book with me camping in Northern California and for Thanksgiving in Southern California. It's been on planes, Muni-trains, and automobiles. It's been around.
I don't know if it's his writing, my attention span for non-fiction, or just feeling like "Okay I get it" early on into it, but I don't think it's ever taken me this long to get through a book before.
I don't even know if I liked it or not, tbh. I did like how it made me feel; between the thrill of accomplishing what turned into a seemingly endless task and the sense that "everything is going to be alright" the book engendered in me, I was left feeling triumphant both as an individual and as a human by the time I closed it for the last time.
But then, of course, I read some reviews, both here and elsewhere on the web, and it seems like Pinker might have skirted past some inconvenient facts to make his point. I don't know.
I definitely want to believe his thesis, and I think it's mostly true, but then again (to misquote Chapelle's Rick James) motivated reasoning is a hell of a drug.
I don't know if it's his writing, my attention span for non-fiction, or just feeling like "Okay I get it" early on into it, but I don't think it's ever taken me this long to get through a book before.
I don't even know if I liked it or not, tbh. I did like how it made me feel; between the thrill of accomplishing what turned into a seemingly endless task and the sense that "everything is going to be alright" the book engendered in me, I was left feeling triumphant both as an individual and as a human by the time I closed it for the last time.
But then, of course, I read some reviews, both here and elsewhere on the web, and it seems like Pinker might have skirted past some inconvenient facts to make his point. I don't know.
I definitely want to believe his thesis, and I think it's mostly true, but then again (to misquote Chapelle's Rick James) motivated reasoning is a hell of a drug.