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Insignificant and mediocre

Revisado: 08-21-23

my impression of it was just null - hours of platitudes stockpiled by someone during their leisure hours and elated by the "wisdom" that has led them there. Casparov's "How life imitates chess" iimo is a much better source for a laymen of some field-gathered insights, and this... idk a freshman crash course on statistics would have been a better value for the time.

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it sparked an interest in physics I've bever had

Revisado: 12-01-22

the intro and outro has only emphasized the thriller-mysrery vibe of this course, an extremely engaging listen

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just not that insightful/disagree with the premise

Revisado: 09-04-22

too outdated and filled with some sort of platitudes which are hard to disagree with merely from a standpoint of a common sense, which is the case when lack of objections to the point drawn proves only the lack of its value

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too nice?

Revisado: 07-14-22

the most touching non-fiction book I've read, but unfortunately the data on unconditional non-reciprocators and people with psychopathologies is pretty meager, it appears that in interviews the author elaborates on the subject a bit more. also the subject of the "dark side" of oxytocin, which lies at the heart of tribalism wasn't punctuated as well as again in some of the podcasts, but I still don't regret listening to this

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peculiar

Revisado: 06-27-22

after reading this book I wonder - does high expression of the trait Openness from Big Give personality traits makes one susceptible to hypnosis? I actually didn't expect to find an account confirming a practice with such a contradictory reputation from a scientist, that was really curious

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~10% through and have to skip passages

Revisado: 05-28-22

seems like the author tries his hardest to sell the movement instead of elaborating on its underpinnings and most engaging arguments (as was promised in the description) - he is dropping names and numbers, and as of yet little facts on the subject of biomimicry, though the only one he has presented so far that has to do with the whirling shape (instead of straight lines) in which fluids and gasses move, depicted in golden ratio, has appeared so novel and so groundbreaking from engineering perspective that I'm willing to give the book a shot. overall wouldn't recommend to spend money on it specifically, but for a plus catalog listen it's okay

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confusing and insipid

Revisado: 12-22-21

Just a compilation of descriptions of strains of human misery with no actual story behind (meaning the one that besides linear temporal direction of recount contains actual milestones in form of events), and if you buy into "an epic climax" than it's of the same kind as in Lars von Trier's movies - death, destruction, and the preceding chapters as a wobbling setup. But that's for assessing it not as a piece of cultural code with its established value as a reference material, but as a self-contained artwork - for the former part Doestoevsky is Dostoevsky all the same with his mesmerizing style, shrewd tangents, and the characters that has long made their way from pages into popular psychology to become archetypes

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extremely disturbing

Revisado: 11-03-21

I was recommended the story, but it wasn't interest that kept me through it - it was existential doom and meaninglessness that have devoured any impetus for pausing and picking up something more upbeat.

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I placed 2 stars overall only for 5/5 narration

Revisado: 11-02-21

The novel itself is a self-esteem booster for a lonely unproductive night. In a nutshell: a bunch of mentally deranged japanese teenagers (some by their psychological age) are trying to chase for meaning in their empty lives by solemnly descending further and further their empty inner landscapes. The main character is clearly landed somewhere on a schizo- spectrum alongside with Naoko - numb in social situations (which is clearly represented by his lack of engagement and absolute reactiveness), deprived of hobbies... if you use the book as a toolkit for comparative studies of the behaviors of mental patients and their headspace it will do just fine - but beware of restlessness and a strong desire to scrape the sinking sensation of doom out of your head alongside immersion in this "swamp" as the protagonist himself so wistfully named the depiction of a drudgery of his existence. Superficial relationships between characters (that are also established by happenstance only, them being exceptionally socially inept) are glued only by sex, alcohol, music and shared grief over deceased acquitances, and the only beam of humanity in this travesty is Nagasawa's trolling and in times extremely suitably laughable narration, though the writing style that has allowed me to endure this few hours also deserves being paid a credit to.
Additionally, the referencrd song by Beatles is an allusion on affair of the composer and the "wood" from the title is a cheap pine wall paneling used to decorate the song's heroine house that was set aflame as a petty revenge of a lyrical character for being turned down, that much for an aesthetics.

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No parts you're forced to endure

Revisado: 11-02-21

The detailed description of the way statistical data gets obfuscated not (only) by premeditated actions of pharmaceutical companies, sponsoring the clinical trials of their product, but by the effect of "breaking blindness" caused by the tendency of subjects to associate side effects (which they're informed about in advance in order to make an educated decision and remain liable for giving their consent) with a potency of an actual drug (therefore identifying themselves as members of a clinical group receiving an active component, which already violates a condition for double blindness) and fueling their expectations for its treating properties ("enhanced placebo") unveils such an intricate internetwork of cause and effect akin to "the Observer effect" from quantum physics or recursion of awareness from the game theory that I didn't expect to discover in what lots of pundits of popular science promote as a paragon of true scientific methodology.

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