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This book had so much potential yet left me so disappointed. It definitely had interesting information, but it was surrounded by so much junk. Did you know that chili peppers are spicy? And did you know that chickens lay eggs and mosquitoes are bad? Then like me, you might be disappointed to find out that there are about 40 pages (more than 10% of the book!) of random obvious facts about plants and animals in this book. Do we really need a whole chapter telling us that language is important? I feel that this book is more a victim of bad editing than bad writing. The book is "How to Invent Everything". If it's not telling you how to invent something, cut it out and make room for more inventing.

As a longtime fan of The Room, I really enjoyed this book and learning more about it. I very highly recommend listening to the audiobook version so that you can enjoy almost non-stop impressions of Tommy W by Greg.

Great book. I've been a long time fan of Dan Heisman. This book is full of lots of great advice.

I know this book as marketed as being for kids, but I found it really helpful as an adult as well. I decided to read it because it was recommended by NM Dan Heisman. The format for introducing the topic, walking through examples, then having exercises for practice I found to be really helpful. Looking forward to reading volume 2.

It was a fun little story, but it felt a little dated.

This was a fun and quick read. I never saw the movie, so I was pretty surprised by the ending. Yikes!

This was a very long book, but it was very consistently good. Not great, not bad; but good.

Really insightful book. I didn't expect so much of it to be focused on behavioral economics though. If you liked the second half of this book, then you would love the book "Predictably Irrational".

I was not the target market for this book. It seemed focused on how women can avoid being attacked by dangerous men. The main take-away is that when your intuition is telling you that something is wrong, don't ignore it but rather figure out why.

Great book. I've always loved "survival" stories like Hatchet and Into the Wild. This is an extreme survival story that takes place on Mars. What's not to love? Compared to the movie, I would say the book is about equal (that is to say, I love them both).

Probably the cheesiest book I've ever read.

This book is unique in that it was a very slow read, but I loved slogging through it. Even though I do a lot with computers, I long ago wrote off the idea of ever understanding the nitty gritty magic of how they work. This book explains it in a way that's possible to understand. It starts with how things like flashlights and Morse code work, and then little step by little step it builds up to how to create things like 64kb of memory for a computer.

I enjoyed this book and the stories of Chris Voss as an FBI hostage negotiator were fascinating. However, I don't see this book as being particularly applicable to the business situations that I find myself in (groups of careful people with lots of checks and balances on both sides). His techniques seem more focused on one-on-one negotiations. Still very useful techniques; they just don't cover all situations.