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Unbearable Smug Cringe

Revisado: 04-18-25

I really tried to give this book a chance, but the kid (and he IS a kid) who wrote this thing is just unbearably full of himself. We all know the "hustler" types who think they have it all figured out. This guy "sees through the Matrix" and isn't held back by the petty concerns of mere mortals like you and I.

I can't finish it. Every few minutes a cold needle touches a nerve in my molars and I CRINGE like a cat vomiting on a rug.

This kid is not anywhere near as profound as he seems to think he is. I don't care how much money he made on Shopify or whatever.

If you finish the first chapter of this book and come away with anything other than, "this kid's a dink," I worry for you.

It's like if Andrew Tate and the Columbine shooters wrote a book together. All the unbearable cockiness and bravado mixed in with something so painfully fragile it's hard to look at. Irritation and pity at war with boredom and cringe while my eyes roll out the back of my head.

Miss this one.

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Not the book this generation needs, but I guess it’s the one they deserve.

Revisado: 01-15-25

Putting this first because it’s the most important — I know many moms who let their kids read Sanderson books sight unseen because they trust the author. I absolutely would not do that with this book. It has much more adult themes than other Sanderson books. I would definitely vet it before you let your teen read it.

Now my review — I was so excited for this book. My husband were making plans to listen to it together for over a year. We pushed play just hours after it dropped.

We never finished it. It just wasn’t fun to read (listen to) at all, and I found some of the content downright offensive. I’m disappointed in the book, but not totally surprised. I was nervous about the way it would go after the strange direction that the fourth book took, but I was hopeful because Sanderson pulled that one out in the end. He might have again, but I may never know. Like I said, I didn’t finish it and I don’t intend to.

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Honestly a Little Lame

Revisado: 12-23-24

At first I thought this book was just a little bit on the "soft serve" side of things. I know a lot of people like that sort of thing, so when the author was going on about being "vulnerable" and telling embarrassing personal stories, I let it slide. I figured that sort of thing probably works for some people.

Then when I got to the chapter where the author talks about blocking out massive chunks of his calendar so that he can smoke weed without people bothering him, the whole book suddenly transformed before my eyes into a lame book by a self-important loser who has gotten lucky a time or two.

How many of us have that one friend whose "mind has been like, totally opened" by weed? I'm sorry, but advocating for regular Marijuana and drinking binges in the name of resilience and productivity is just asinine.

I'm giving 2 stars instead of 1 because... well, he just seems like the kind of guy you'd feel bad about being mean to. Maybe that's his real superpower - weaponized vulnerability.

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This is an Exceptional Novel!

Revisado: 10-25-24

I loved this book. I have enjoyed every single one of the books in the Cameron Winter series. This one is most definitely the best one yet. I strongly recommend it.

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An Excellent Book About a Serious Problem

Revisado: 08-20-24

There is just too much law. Justice Gorsuch does a great job going into detail about how the code books in the US have steadily expanded until they are essentially unknowable and arbitrary. The fact that we do not currently know how many federal crimes there are is absolutely insane and should be alarming to all of us!

I highly recommend this book.

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Holy Smoke, This Was a Good Book!

Revisado: 08-20-24

I was on the edge of my seat the entire time I was reading this book. The things these men went through (and the cruel things they did to the natives) are almost beyond belief. It's like a story of another planet. It's amazing to me how they were able to survive at all. This story has it all - action, adventure, great heroes and nasty villains, and all of it (supposedly) true. It also tells a great story about the folly of man's hubris when he doesn't respect nature.

I highly recommend this book for anyone who wants to go on a heart pounding, swashbuckling adventure!

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Well, This is a Transparent Grift

Revisado: 08-18-24

It started off fine with the throat clearing you'd expect about who and why and then what, and then about dreams coming true and so forth. Really bland and inoffensive stuff.

Then, not surprisingly at all, the author launched into a bunch of gross race stuff. I know it's par for the course these days, but I honestly find it so tedious and exhausting that every single book is just filled with this idiotic poison these days.

The author is very clear that white men need not apply when making a podcast unless they bring in "diverse" viewpoints (herself, perhaps?). This is such an obvious and transparent gift. I get that it has seemingly served this particular author very well so far - the race card seems to have opened doors for her.

Anyone who still believes in 2024 that a person's skin color either precludes or creates by default some set or other of desirable values needs to get their head checked. Asian ladies are the largest demographic on PLANET EARTH. I don't know why this lady seems to feel like her particular viewpoint is somehow underrepresented. The only thing I can surmise is that she is playing pretend just like so many others in order to profit exorbitantly inside a system that was already rigged in her favor. Because anyone who has seen any television, movie, podcast, blog, or newscast has seen that her claim about white men being overrepresented is entirely and utterly false.

Gross and sad. I don't recommend this to anyone with a brain in their heads. Apparently the way to launch a successful podcast is to cry foul until someone hands it to you (unless you are a white male, of course - check your privilege!).

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Terrible English - Entirely Unreadable

Revisado: 08-12-24

The most charitable thing I can think of for this book is that it must have been written in a different language originally and then translated (poorly) into English.

That would be tolerable if the content were excellent, but it frankly isn't. I don't like leaving poor reviews, but I very much wish I could get my money back on this one.

I do not recommend this book.

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Could Have Been a Good Book - If the Author Weren't a Hack Coward

Revisado: 06-01-24

For goodness sake. Can we write nothing, say nothing, MAKE nothing anymore without authors desperately trying to tell everyone that they are on the "right side of history?" Give it a rest. There was so much to say in this book. It could have been a unifying celebration of human ingenuity in all its forms and from a wide variety of practitioners. Instead, every third paragraph the author feels the need to take a jab at people in the past for not thinking like him....... apparently entirely forgetting the THESIS OF HIS OWN BOOK - that people in the past thought differently than us about complex problems to be solved AND that subsequent generations of engineers are standing on the shoulders of those who came before.

To take a time out every couple of paragraphs to take a pot shot at dead men in order to highlight his own virtues (virtues which will also someday be out of fashion - believe that!) is the height of arrogance, folly, and intellectual cowardice.

I liked this book. But I have made it a firm policy of mine to give only one star to any author who proports to write about history and yet takes every opportunity to slam his subjects in order to elevate his own perceived virtues. Shame, shame, shame.

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There is not a more important read for parents

Revisado: 04-02-24

I've read my fair share of books about child-rearing. I have six kids, and raising them is my full-time job. None of them are as important as this one. I cannot recommend it enough.

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