Tag: NonFiction Book Review

Most of what we know about Leonardo da Vinci, we know because of his notebooks. Some 6,000 sheets of notes and drawings survive, perhaps one-fifth of what he actually produced. With an artist’s eye and a scientist’s curiosity, he recorded in these pages his observations on the movement of water and the formation of rocks, the nature of flight and optics, anatomy, architecture, sculpture, and painting. He jotted down fables, epigrams, and letters and developed his belief in the sublime unity of nature and man. Through his notebooks we can get an insight into Leonardo’s thoughts, and his approach to work and life. This selection, organized in seven themed sections, offers a fascinating and informative sample of his writings. Fully updated, this new edition includes some 70 line drawings and a Preface by Martin Kemp, one of the world’s leading authorities on Leonardo, who explores the artist’s genius and the contents and legacy of his manuscripts. The book also features new notes and a chronology of Leonardo’s life.

I need to admit that this book have taken me a very long time to finish reading. But also this book had been laying on my shelf waiting to be read even longer than it took me to finish this book. But without making this into longer than it already is lets jump into the review of this book. 

First of all I gotta admit that the topics which this books talks about comes straight from Leonardo Da Vinci’s notebooks which he himself have written a very long time ago. I was very surprised to read about the topics which Leonardo Da Vinci has written about back in the Renaissance era.

This book have taken me a very long time to read as I’ve said above, because this book talks about a lot of advanced topics which I needed a lot of time to process and understand because I’m not that smart as Leonardo Da Vinci clearly was.

But I need to admit here that a lot of parts of this book doesn’t seem to have been meant to be read by other people than by Leonardo Da Vinci himself. They seemed like a lot of parts of this book where meant for Leonardo Da Vinci himself as notes to himself if he wanted to look back at some of his notes. Which is the main issue that I had about this book. Because there are a lot of moments of this book where I would get bored because a lot of parts of this book seemed like I was reading school textbook. 

This book involves a lot of drawings that Leonardo Da Vinci himself have made during his time, which made me give this book some extra points for doing. Because the drawings really helped me to understand what Leonardo Da Vinci was talking about in the notes which this book has.

The writing style of this book is very flat and almost school textbook like. But once again this book wasn’t exactly meant for readers as it was meant more like Leonardo Da Vinci making notes for himself for later use if needed.

I Give This Book 3 / 5

It is now in vogue to celebrate non-Western cultures and disparage Western ones. Some of this is a much-needed reckoning, but much of it fatally undermines the very things that created the greatest, most humane civilization in the world. In The War on the West, Douglas Murray shows how many well-meaning people have been fooled by hypocritical and inconsistent anti-West rhetoric. After all, if we must discard the ideas of Kant, Hume, and Mill for their opinions on race, shouldn’t we discard Marx, whose work is peppered with racial slurs and anti-Semitism? Embers of racism remain to be stamped out in America, but what about the raging racist inferno in the Middle East and Asia?

I need to admit that this book is the best nonfiction book I’ve read this entire year. Because this book makes a lot of great points about society and the anti-white and anti-western cultures going on in the best years. But I will explain everything in this review so if you are interested in hearing my thoughts and opinions about this book then keep reading.

This book is worth reading, because it makes a lot of good points about how the left tries to destroy the western cultures because of their delusions and thoughts about everything western and white is bad and it should be destroyed. And looking at what is happening in the western word those last few years it takes a lot of courage to write and publish a book like this one and not get called a “racist” and get banned from the mainstream Karens. 

The writing style in this book is very good, it was like the author knew what words to use to completely grab my attention and to do not let it go until the very end of this book. This thing really happens really rarely to be when it comes to nonfiction books like this one.

The arguments the authors uses in this book are very well researched and those arguments used in this book make it very clear that the author used a lot of time to write this book. Which in a way made me like this book even more. 

At the same time the arguments in this book, make the fact that the author has a lot of political knowledge very clear. Which in a way made it clear that the author of this book knows what we is talking about when he discusses the political part of the  anti-western movement which is happening.

In my opinion this book is very easily a must read for everyone who wonders what the world has come to in the past few years. Because I didn’t realize how deep in shit we are until reading this book because of I didn’t notice it sooner. 

This book has taken me a few days too read because there were times I needed to take a break from it to think over the things this book talks about because there is a lot of things this book talks about. 

This book is very enjoyable and interesting if you are like me and find politics interesting and what to know more about it. Which was the main reason I read this book. And it turns out this book is much better than I expected it to be.

I Give This Book 5 / 5

Wszystko zaczęło się od pomysłu wyprawy do Czarnobyla. Wtedy – zafascynowani jego historią i tajemnicami – rozpoczęli przygodę z urban exploration. Odwiedzają obiekty zbudowane przez człowieka, ale już opuszczone i trudno dostępne. Wchodzą tam, gdzie inni boją się postawić stopę.

Before we start this review I need to say that at the time of writing this review this book is only available in polish. 

This book is about polish urban exploration YouTube channels which is hosted by 3 friends. I used to watch every video upload from their channel for a few years which was the reason I bought this book when it first came out back in 2019. 

If I remember correctly I began reading this book back in early 2024, and then I just stoped reading it after reading 8 or 9 chapters of it because I became very bored of this book. At the same time I stoped reading this book I also stoped watching their YouTube channel since I was becoming tired of watching urban exploration videos and started spending most of my free time reading books. But we are side tracking here and its time to get back to the review of this book.

This book had taken me a long time to read, and I need to be honest here and admit that I DNF-ed it when I was half way through this book. Because I had no interested in continue reading this book.

This book is very slow at the beginning and not very interesting. At least it wasn’t interesting enough for me to finish this book which is the main reason why I didn’t finish reading this book

Each chapter in this book was written by one of the 3 guys who run the YouTube channel. And I found the the chapters very confusing because I was having very hard time tracking who’s point of view the current chapter I was reading was from.

The writing style in this book is all over the place here because it was written by 3 different people. So you know that there will be 3 different writing style in this book which I’m not a big fan of when it happens in a book. I prefer the books I’m reading to have one writing style instead of multiple so that I can get used to it and try to like it.

I Give This Book 3 / 5

We have never had so much information at our fingertips and yet most of us don’t know how the world really works. This book explains seven of the most fundamental realities governing our survival and prosperity. From energy and food production, through our material world and its globalization, to risks, our environment and its future, How the World Really Works offers a much-needed reality check – because before we can tackle problems effectively, we must understand the facts.

I need to admit here that the only reason why I read this book is because I’ve heard a lot of good things about the author, and this book was the first book from the author which I found in the bookstore I usually buy my books at. But without making the intro longer than it already is, lets get into this review. 

First of all I need to admit here that this book makes some very good points through out this book. Which really made like this book a fair share. And the author does give us some good fun facts through out this book

But at the same time this book is more of a statistics book rather than a normal nonfiction book. Because of how many numbers and constructs this book talks about and how much the author tries to connect those numbers into what the author is talking about in this book.

This book talks about climate change and that we cant decarbonize as fast as we imagine we can. Which is a very good point because most of the climate change books and articles I’ve read are always too optimistic about how fast we can decarbonize the planet and our lives.

The thing which I didn’t like the most about this book, was the fact that the author is very skeptical about humanity becoming multi-planetary species because the author claims it is far-fetched and too much like a Sci-Fi movie. 

The writing style in this book is very like a high school textbook, which really didn’t help me to be interested in it or find the book to be enjoyable. 

If you want to read a book about climate change and what we can do about it, then this book isnt a good choice because this book bombards us as readers with a lot of numbers, statics which really makes this book hard to understand. A better choice would be the climate change book Bill Gates have written rather than this one.

I Give This Book 3 / 5

Some Lessons teaches how to use dark psychology for sales(“Lesson 85: Send People Their Money Back”), others teaches the mindset required (“Lesson 25: Be Passionate For Money Only”) and people’s favorite (“Lesson 63: Loser Rolls With Losers, Winner Rolls With Winner”) Every Lesson, though, has one thing in It teaches you how to become RICH. This Book is ideal whether you’re just starting out or if you already have a six figure business.

I need to admit that I don’t know why I tried to read this book because I hate Andrew Tate and don’t agree with a single thing he says. But very fortunately I didn’t spend any money on this book because when I got this book on my kindle it was free. 

This book is just a collection of all the shitty things Andrew Tate said on camera to earn money from the watch time on his videos to traffic women. 

I had more or less DNF-ed this book after reading 10 pages of this book, because I’ve noticed this book isn’t worth my time or the memory usage on my Kindle. 

If you are like me and don’t agree with anything which comes out of Andrew Tate’s mouth, don’t reading this book because it isn’t worth the time or effort to read this book. 

I Give This Book 1 / 5

Whiskey and porn stars, hot reds and car crashes, black leather and high heels, overdoses and death. This is the life of Mötley Crüe, the heaviest drinking, hardest fighting, most oversexed and arrogant band in the world. Their unbelievable exploits are the stuff of rock ‘n’ roll legend. They nailed the hottest chicks, started the bloodiest fights, partied with the biggest drug dealers, and got to know the inside of every jail cell from California to Japan. They have dedicated an entire career to living life to its extreme, from the greatest fantasies to the darkest tragedies. Tommy married two international sex symbols; Vince killed a man and lost a daughter to cancer; Nikki overdosed, rose from the dead, and then OD’d again the next day; and Mick shot a woman and tried to hang his own brother. But that’s just the beginning.

Ive been dying to read this book for a long time. Because I am a pretty big fan of Motley Crue and wanted to read this book. And finally I did.

The writing style in this book is amazing. Neil Strauss really did a good job at putting together a very good written book about Motley Crue.

This book gives us the insider story of Motley Crue which the newspapers and news report overlooks. And this book puts this insider story of Motley Crue in a very relatable way even thou most people reading this book aren’t world famous rock starts. 

This book has 4 perspectives from Vince Neil, Nikki Sixx, Mick Mars and Tommy Lee. Which gives this book access to their the stories of each of the member of Motley Crue. And all of the stories we get in this book shows us that all of the members in Motley Crue had some shit happening to them. Which really makes you realize that each member of Motley Crue is just like then rest of the us and not just the big musicians which not bad happens to.

This book also talks about how really fucked up it was being a rock star in the 80s and  90s. And the music records aspect of being a musician in the 80s and 90s.

If you are a Motley Crue fan, rock’n roll fan or music fan in general I believe that you will like this book a lot. 

I Give This Book 4 / 5

The dust had yet to settle on the global financial crisis in 2009 when an unlikely Wharton grad was setting in motion a fraud of unprecedented gall and magnitude–one that would come to symbolize the next great threat to the global financial system. Billion Dollar Whale will become a classic, harrowing parable about the financial world in the twenty-first century.

Ive been wanting to read this book ever since it was published back in 2018, and finally I did. I gotta say that it lived up to my expectations which doest happen very often for me. 

This book the author a lot of time to research the case and all the schemes Jho Low. The case of Jho Low involves a lot of people, companies, banks and even parties to write a book about this case in a month or so. Because at the same time because all the people, companies, banks and parties we are told about in this book the entire case becomes so much confusing and hard to keep track of.

This book makes you realize how ridiculous the entire thing was and how schemes it must have taken for the whole thing to not be exposed for so long as it did.

However this book could have used better timeline than it did. Because it keeps skipping back and forward in time without any specific reason other than telling us as much of the story as possible. 

The writing style in this book is pretty simple and easy to understand. But at times it throws at us the big fancy financial words which no one really understands who isn’t working at wall street or some other financial institutions.  

However if you liked the Jordan Belfort story, you will also enjoy this book. Because the story Jho Low involves famous people like DiCaprio, Jordan Belfort and other people from Hollywood. 

I Give This Book 3 / 5

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to find yourself strapped to a giant rocket that’s about to go from zero to 17,500 miles per hour? Or to look back on the earth from outer space and see the surprisingly precise line between day and night? Or to stand in front of the Hubble telescope, wondering if the emergency repair you’re about to make will inadvertently ruin humankind’s chance to unlock the universe’s secrets? Mike Massimino has been there, and in Spaceman he puts you inside the suit, with all the zip and buoyancy of life in microgravity.

Its important to say that I didn’t know anything about this book before getting into it. So I didn’t have any expectations for this book.

This book is surprisingly very Inspiring and relatable which really made give this book some extra points because of this. 

I personally feel like that the beginning was a little bit boring because the beginning is about the author and about why he wanted to become a astronaut, the test he failed the first time to become astronaut and then what he did after he failed the test. Which I personally found to be more on the boring side because I want to read about astronauts not a guy who failed his astronaut test.

The writing style her is okay, but it is far from being good. But at the same thing the writing style makes everything more understandable and easy. So its not all bad even thou I didn’t like the writing style so much in this book.

The moment where the author actually gets into the program the books starts to get interesting because then we actually follow the journey of what it takes once you are in the space program.

I personally feel like there are some part of this book which should have been removed from the final version since they didn’t bring anything to the table and were only boring for me at least.

I Give This Book 3 / 5

In a time when the human will increasingly imposes itself over every sphere of life—from our social structures to our emotional states—Peterson warns that too much security is dangerous. What’s more, he offers strategies for overcoming the cultural, scientific, and psychological forces causing us to tend toward tyranny, and teaches us how to rely instead on our instinct to find meaning and purpose, even—and especially—when we find ourselves powerless.

This book is the sequel to “12 rules for life: an antidote to chaos” by of course none other than  Jordan B. Peterson. 

This book isn’t as good as the first book but still you will learn far share of things from it. Jordan b Peterson gives a good and strong message in this book and teaches us how to have a functional and good life and after reading this second book I like him even more.

The writing style is heavy as in the first book, but in this book because the heavy writing style forces you think over things which Jordan B Peterson have written about in this book. This book has more a academical writing style than the more typical non fiction and non academical books but still I personally enjoyed reading this book a lot. 

The rules in this book are more obscure if you will than the rules from the first book but they are as important as the rules from the first book.

I know that I’ve said in the previous Jordan B Peterson book review, but I’m gonna say it again, reading his are fully worth it because you will learn a lot from them because there is a lot of wisdom in his books and this book isn’t any different. 

This book is very interesting, enjoyable and very helpful. And at the same time this book is hard to put down because Jordan B Peterson is very good at sucking you into his books and not letting you go until the very end of the book. Which is one of the things I love about his books.

I Give This Book 3 / 5

No matter your goals, Atomic Habits offers a proven framework for improving—every day. James Clear, one of the world’s leading experts on habit formation, reveals practical strategies that will teach you exactly how to form good habits, break bad ones, and master the tiny behaviors that lead to remarkable results.

To be honest this book is one of the best books ive read this year, and yeah this book deserves all the hype it gets because it is very very good. 

There are dozens of books by this point about how we can change our habits to better habits, and I read a lot of them but this one is the best of all of them because it doesn’t recycles the same information as the dozens of other books about the same topic but rather it gives us new information which are more relatable and easier to put into work in real life when you are done with this book. 

This book makes the process of removing bad habits and establishing new habits very easy because it gives all the motivation we need to actually do it but also it gives us a very easy way how we can do it. 

The language in this book is very easy and simple, which really makes this book a good for everyone no matter if you are still in high school or if you have a master’s degree in psychology. Everyone can read this book and take something out of it. 

The writing style here is incredible because it didn’t feel like reading a  heavy nonfiction book but rather it felt like take a chat with the author. The writing style was very down to earth and very easy to understand which really made me give this book some extra points for it.

This book is also very hard to put it down, because it really gives you a very very hard time to put it away because it completely sucks you into it. 

I Give This Book 4 / 5