David Harris

Wish it had more

Revisado: 03-06-20

Verne is a really likable guy, but this whole book reads like he is pulling his punches and trying very hard to avoid offending anyone he’s ever worked with. As a result, the book feels too surfacy a lot of the time. There is also an inordinate amount of time spent recapping long winded blow by blow accounts of long past games. I get including details from some of those games in a book like this, but the length of time spent there felt like filler at many points. It just went on too long. The narrator was too stilted for someone reading a memoir also. Disappointed.

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Awful book. Could not finish it

Revisado: 11-19-18

I never quit on a book before it’s through, but I quit on this one very early on. I was ripped off here. Extremely boring story and Jeremy Irons is an awful, awful book narrator. Flat and monotone. He put me straight to sleep. Wish I could get a refund on this one.

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Disappointing

Revisado: 04-24-18

This book was not what I was hoping for. The writer has an extremely long-winded way of getting to his point, which almost always involve very, very long diatribes about things that are loosely related to the topic at hand or not related at all. He can also get very preachy & condescending to the reader, going on at length about many things a mature adult would consider self evident. I did not get much out of this book. Add to this that the narrator has a pretty annoying voice it does not help much. Getting this book was a mistake. I did not get my money’s worth here.

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Disjointed, clunky story

Revisado: 02-10-17

The book had a good premise and a lot of interesting information, but was written in such a wandering, long winded, and disjointed way that I walked away from the story asking myself what can I actually take from the book that I can put to use? The answer is basically nothing. The book has plenty of useful idea put forth, but they were presented in such a way as to appear convoluted where everything in the book runs together. I couldn't help but think all the way through the book that if Malcolm Gladwell had written a book about this exact same material and people that it would have been a far more useful and instructive book. I was disappointed and bored with this book.

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Could not get through it

Revisado: 03-29-16

Gave this book a chance on a whim because it was part of a sale. I could not get through the first chapter. Poor writing.

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Terrible

Revisado: 07-13-15

This isn't a book, just an academic dumping out research unfiltered. A very boring blow by blow narrated by a robot.

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