itibaren Tayvan, 新北市汐止區東山里
This is one of the first books I remember my teacher reading to my class when I was in school and I just absolutley loved every bit of it. I re-read it for my book review and I still find it brilliant. I even went out and bought more books by Roald Dahl. I love how he is so creative in his work and the characters that he makes up are just brilliant. I would really reccommend this book as it is very creative and children would just love it.
Borges packs 100 pages of a novel into an 8-page short story. This is dense, but fucking brilliant.
This is Malcolm Gladwell’s second book after “The Tipping Point.” In The Tipping Point, Gladwell writes about how sometimes things considered little and insignificant can unexpectedly cause big changes. Blink is about something very different; it is about how much information processing is done by our mind at a subconscious level, and how it can give us incredible answers in the blink of an eye. Gladwell explains how we are quite unaware of the powers of our subconscious mind that works like a supercomputer behind the scenes. Every time we are faced with a challenge or a predicament, we try to use our conscious mind and think. For many day-to-day problems, we have access to enough information and intelligence in that part of our mind and we solve them. But very often, we come across situations for which we can’t find answers in our conscious mind. Yet, we often act quickly in a crisis and avert a disaster by doing precisely the appropriate thing; Gladwell attributes this to our “adaptive unconscious” that processes an enormous amout of information in a flash and guides us to the correct action. Read detailed review at: http://blog.technicalley.com/book-rev...
A first hand look into a world I would otherwise have no part of. Brilliant.
This was a really powerful book for me that I first read in 10th grade. The ideas of social conditioning and social striation presented by Huxley have served to underlie much of my own process of experiencing and interpreting what happens in society in general. Control, technology, disconnect, conditioning, fear... just a few themes broached in this must-read book.