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I have never read a more repetitive book. If it had ever been properly edited, it would have wound up as nothing longer than a listicle on Buzzfeed.

Worse, what was repeated was essentially a sales pitch about how powerful the author's ideas were. What ideas? By the time I abandoned this after slogging through 70%, I felt as though I was sitting through a timeshare presentation.

This book is an enormous waste of time.

A fascinating look into the art and science of color. It's surprising how recent knowledge of color is, and intriguing to hear what the future of color science might be. A very interesting book, and well researched. I do wish there were less of the author's personal interjections, but I suppose that's common for nonfiction these days.

The innovation of weaving trees into the plot wore thin in the middle when the characters became more like plot pieces than people. Some of the facts about trees were so interesting that they compelled me to look them up, but then I discovered they weren't always quite right.

A catalog of thought-provoking ironies that concludes with a surprising (and somewhat chilling) forecast of humans' future.

Excerpts are fascinating for their prescience, but the artifice of the dialogue and the forcefulness of "The Point" make this book an exhausting read.