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kleinbl00  ·  3786 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Mute feature: from team hubski

I read the free sample and didn't go further, primarily 'cuz it was full price. As I read it, I wished it were written by Mary Roach.

Whom you might also dig.





_refugee_  ·  3786 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I did not enjoy Mary roach.

kleinbl00  ·  3786 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Interesting. Care to expand?

_refugee_  ·  3786 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It was a while ago. I attempted to read "Stiff." I didn't finish I'm pretty sure. I think my opinion of Roach suffered as I had recently read both Complications and possibly also Better by Atul Gawande and I found I enjoyed his writing style much more, while bth authors were discussing similar subject matter (bodies, medicine). The book seemed "pop"-py to me. It was not as bad as Gladwell (I read "Blink" and hated it) but I remember feeling as if the subject could have been covered better by others.

kleinbl00  ·  3786 days ago  ·  link  ·  

See, and I haven't read Stiff and don't want to. Packing for Mars is all I got - and it's very poppy. But it's an "everything you wanted to know about space travel but were afraid to ask" manual that spends a chapter and a half on the toilet on the space station and "poppy" is the way to go.

_refugee_  ·  3786 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Even if you had read it, we are allowed to disagree, Obi-wan.

I'm reading Ariely on the toilet. I find him slightly redundant so far but maybe he's just hammering home important points.

kleinbl00  ·  3786 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah, but we don't very often, thus I was searching for the disconnect.

_refugee_  ·  3786 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Poor mobile service is eating this post but my affection for Gawande may make it difficult for other similar authors to succeed.

kleinbl00  ·  3786 days ago  ·  link  ·  
_refugee_  ·  3786 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Complications is (somewhat sadly) definitely better than Better. There was supposed to be a third but it looks like that never came out. The Checklist Manifesto I found valuable, but it expands beyond the realm of medicine - so in that way very different from better. I would pick either Checklist or Complications, I am wondering if you would prefer Checklist because it's broader - but Complications is very good.

humanodon  ·  3786 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Oh, this looks promising. Thanks!