The ideas behind the book are good, but they're lost far and between the author's praises of the slip-box method. The amount of time spent explaining versus praising it is surprisingly low. Granted, it is a simple method, but the book would still do a good job explaining it at less than half its length. There are almost no examples -- the author does state some common pitfalls and that you need to trust your intuition, but at least one comprehensive example would have been nice.
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claptrap rated Fooled by Randomness: 4 stars
Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Fooled by Randomness (EBook, 2008, Random House Publishing Group)
Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
"[Taleb is] Wall Street's principal dissident. . . . [Fooled By Randomness] is to conventional Wall Street wisdom approximately what …
claptrap rated Who Rules the World?: 4 stars
Who Rules the World? by Noam Chomsky
"The world's leading intellectual offers a probing examination of the waning American Century, the nature of U.S. policies post-9/11, and …
claptrap rated The paradox of choice : why more is less: 3 stars
Dune by Frank Herbert
Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, heir to a noble family …
claptrap rated All Quiet on the Western Front: 4 stars
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
This edition is in Hebrew. Youthful, enthusiastic, they become soldiers. But despite what they have learned, they break into pieces …
claptrap reviewed How to Take Smart Notes by Sönke Ahrens
An informational book that describes and advocates for the note taking system of the German …
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2 stars
The ideas behind the book are good, but they're lost far and between the author's praises of the slip-box method. The amount of time spent explaining versus praising it is surprisingly low. Granted, it is a simple method, but the book would still do a good job explaining it at less than half its length. There are almost no examples -- the author does state some common pitfalls and that you need to trust your intuition, but at least one comprehensive example would have been nice.
claptrap rated The Great Gatsby: 3 stars
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, F. Scott Fitzgerald
THE GREAT GATSBY, F. Scott Fitzgerald's third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. This exemplary novel of …
claptrap rated to lathos / το λάθος: 4 stars
claptrap rated House of cards: 4 stars
claptrap rated Shutter Island: 4 stars
Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane
U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his partner, Chuck Aule, come to Shutter Island's Ashecliffe Hospital in search of an escaped …
claptrap rated The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: 4 stars
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) by Mark Twain is one of the truly great American novels, beloved by children, adults, …
claptrap rated Les Misérables: 5 stars
Les Misérables by Victor Hugo, Hélène Potelet, Michelle Busseron-Coupel, and 1 other
In this story of the trials of the peasant Jean Valjean--a man unjustly imprisoned, baffled by destiny, and hounded by …
claptrap rated Brave New World: 4 stars
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley's profoundly important classic of world literature, Brave New World is a searching vision of an unequal, technologically-advanced future …
claptrap rated Fahrenheit 451: 4 stars
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Fahrenheit 451 is a 1953 dystopian novel by American writer Ray Bradbury. Often regarded as one of his best works, …