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Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown
Did not finish book. Stopped at 55%.
Did not finish book. Stopped at 55%.
Had to return it to the library. Basic concept is valuable, but felt very corporate and business driven in a way that was totally unappealing to me, and didn’t really seem geared to provoke or stimulate thought or really and truly help you adopt these principles so much as repeat a bunch of oversimplified advice over and over with a bunch of examples, some drawing in social justice figures in a way that was totally unearned.
The Invisibles, Volume 1: Say You Want a Revolution by Dennis Cramer, Jill Thompson, Steve Yeowell, Grant Morrison, Peter Milligan
adventurous
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
4.0
The initiation begins! Not just Dane but the reader being initiated, plunged into a set of symbols and themes that are challenging to untangle and decipher, lots of threads set up that presumably will pay off later on. I never thought about the continuity of The Invisibles I guess because I never made it past the first volume, but it's truly impressive the amount of characters or events casually introduced or mentioned that continue to be developed later on. The feeling of being trapped in the system of control and the fact that rebellion alone is not the answer is still very real.