1-star Autonomous Newitz takes a potentially interesting idea, only superficially executes on it, and then slathers it with an artless dose of radical intellectual property activism, pseudo-edgy hackerspace/academia wet dreams, and transsexual robotic intercourse.
1-star Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy "Solve for Happy" [http://amzn.to/2sya2Mc] is a condescending and lazy self-help book. While the premature death of his son is undeniably tragic, Gawdat loses my sympathy with his faux insights and patronizing tone. "Going back to one of my childhood interests, the theory of
1-star Report From Iron Mountain "Report From Iron Mountain" [http://amzn.to/2gLFtQY] is a book whose history is much more interesting than the book itself. Originally proclaimed as a "top secret" 1960's report that had been leaked to the public, Leonard Lewin ultimately claimed authorship and revealed the
fiction A Whole New Mind "A Whole New Mind" [http://amzn.to/2dvSqLU] takes one reasonable idea and then panders and blathers for six hours about it. This is a book that should have been a tweet. It's a shame because this could have been an interesting book - the question of
review You May Also Like: Taste in an Age of Endless Choice Malcolm Gladwell without the payoff. You May Also Like: Taste in an Age of Endless Choice [http://amzn.to/20jnQE5] is a random journey that leads nowhere. Vanderbilt promises that his book will explain "why we like the things we like." In reality, he skims the surface of