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Everything That Remains: A Memoir by The Minimalists
by Ryan Nicodemus, Joshua Fields Millburn
Clarification on my rating: actual rating of the book as such would be 3 stars, but gave 4 for the message it holds and how important I feel it is for myself and probably a lot of others.
What I didn't like about the book was that I felt on many occasions that Joshua, the self-proclaimed "ex-shabby but current great writer" was getting too haughty and proud for nothing. Honestly, I cannot remember the number of times I cringed internally reading some of his sentences and phrases. At some points, I felt that he literally just right-clicked on a word and chose the most flashy-looking synonym he could find on MS Word.
1) He does not seem to realise that complicating and buffing up sentences with macho words actually takes away a lot of meaning from the sentence and turns the reading from pleasure to cringe gauntlet.
2) Just because a word has multiple synonyms, it doesn't mean they can all be used interchangeably in all scenarios.
3) I also disliked how he exaggerated a lot, for the sake of the effect it would have on the readers.
These are the only things that irked me. Apart from these though, it is a really valuable book, if you haven't started thinking like this already. I feel that we, especially millenials, are all kind of in the same boat and would all benefit from stopping everything, pausing the CD, and evaluating and introspecting our lives and our mental state. Are we actually happy or not?
I was introduced to minimalism by Matt D'Avella and I have found the concept, or even movement, something that I connect to. I am also currently in a state of total confusion and disarray, a sort of young mid-life crisis. I feel it has largely to do with the extreme pace of the world around me, and like a school of fish trapped in a whirlpool, I am also being taken along with it. Instead, I hope to be able to make a tangent, catch a breather and really ask myself if this is the stream I want to live in.
I urge everybody to at least give this book a try.
What I didn't like about the book was that I felt on many occasions that Joshua, the self-proclaimed "ex-shabby but current great writer" was getting too haughty and proud for nothing. Honestly, I cannot remember the number of times I cringed internally reading some of his sentences and phrases. At some points, I felt that he literally just right-clicked on a word and chose the most flashy-looking synonym he could find on MS Word.
1) He does not seem to realise that complicating and buffing up sentences with macho words actually takes away a lot of meaning from the sentence and turns the reading from pleasure to cringe gauntlet.
2) Just because a word has multiple synonyms, it doesn't mean they can all be used interchangeably in all scenarios.
3) I also disliked how he exaggerated a lot, for the sake of the effect it would have on the readers.
These are the only things that irked me. Apart from these though, it is a really valuable book, if you haven't started thinking like this already. I feel that we, especially millenials, are all kind of in the same boat and would all benefit from stopping everything, pausing the CD, and evaluating and introspecting our lives and our mental state. Are we actually happy or not?
I was introduced to minimalism by Matt D'Avella and I have found the concept, or even movement, something that I connect to. I am also currently in a state of total confusion and disarray, a sort of young mid-life crisis. I feel it has largely to do with the extreme pace of the world around me, and like a school of fish trapped in a whirlpool, I am also being taken along with it. Instead, I hope to be able to make a tangent, catch a breather and really ask myself if this is the stream I want to live in.
I urge everybody to at least give this book a try.