James Cridland's reading reviewed Poke The Box by Seth Godin
Review of 'Poke The Box' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
I've worked out what Seth Godin does, and it's very simple. He takes one valid and interesting thought, and writes it in lots of different ways to fill a book.
What Seth has done in this book, I discover, is that he's had one good idea, and expanded on it, repeatedly, to make a book out of it.
Seth's a clever man, because essentially this book is full of one concept, which he's phrased and paraphrased, over and over again, to comfortably fill quite a lot of pages.
What's kind of happened here, you'll discover, is that Mr Godin has suddenly woken up and thought "Goodness, if I just write the same thing over and over again, but slightly differently, for a number of different chapters, then I'll manage to complete a book and then I can sell it."
As a concept of a book, this is pretty clever - …
I've worked out what Seth Godin does, and it's very simple. He takes one valid and interesting thought, and writes it in lots of different ways to fill a book.
What Seth has done in this book, I discover, is that he's had one good idea, and expanded on it, repeatedly, to make a book out of it.
Seth's a clever man, because essentially this book is full of one concept, which he's phrased and paraphrased, over and over again, to comfortably fill quite a lot of pages.
What's kind of happened here, you'll discover, is that Mr Godin has suddenly woken up and thought "Goodness, if I just write the same thing over and over again, but slightly differently, for a number of different chapters, then I'll manage to complete a book and then I can sell it."
As a concept of a book, this is pretty clever - Seth Godin has come up with one central tenent and discussed it, in quite a circumlocutory way, over a considerable amount of paragraphs.
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