Tag: NonFiction Book Review

In addition to being among the most celebrated of contemporary filmmakers, Quentin Tarantino is possibly the most joyously infectious movie lover alive. For years he has touted in interviews his eventual turn to writing books about films. Now, with Cinema Speculation, the time has come, and the results are everything his passionate fans—and all movie lovers—could have hoped for. Organized around key American films from the 1970s, all of which he first saw as a young moviegoer at the time, this book is as intellectually rigorous and insightful as it is rollicking and entertaining. At once film criticism, film theory, a feat of reporting, and wonderful personal history, it is all written in the singular voice recognizable immediately as QT’s and with the rare perspective about cinema possible only from one of the greatest practitioners of the artform ever.

And yet again Ive read another book written by Quentin Tarantino which didn’t work for me. I don’t know why I keep reading his books but I do and each time I end up really not liking his books.

The writing style in this book was okay, but it was far far from being good. The writing style didn’t bother me so much as other things which I will talk about in this review. 

The reason why I didn’t like this book was because this book is the constant commentary on movies, tv, directing etc. you know all the things it takes to make a movie in Hollywood. 

Don’t get me wrong I like Quentin Tarantino’s movies but reading an entire book about his movie and directing opinions isn’t for me. Especially if you look at the fact that he swears a lot in this book. Again don’t get me wrong, I have no problem with people using “bad language” but still if you gonna use “bad words” keep it to a minimum since its a nonfiction book not a rap song.

In this book the author make some very harsh person critiques like being ugly, fat and some other insults which I think you can think about. 

There were are a time when he talked about people with various disabilities like down syndrome amongst other and he called them “mongoloids” or even “pin heads” which is very very rude and would ruin your career if you weren’t making billions of money for the worst perverts and criminal on all earth which of course is Hollywood.

I Give This Book 1 / 5

In this must-read book for anyone striving to succeed, pioneering psychologist Angela Duckworth shows parents, educators, students, and business people both seasoned and new that the secret to outstanding achievement is not talent but a focused persistence called grit.

This book has to be one of the worst psychology books I’ve read so far. Because this book starts as a psychology book but then it turns into a biography of the authors career life and what she has done during school and during work. By doing it this book turned from being a psychology book to being a mix between self help and biography book.

This book was hard to stick to and pay attention because this book was all over the place with its stories. Which really disappointed me.

The chapters here felt like the same over and over again. Because the author kept repeating more or less the same things in every chapter but just in other words and other stories which led to the same conclusions.

The language used in this book was easy to understand, and because of this it made me give this book some extra point. Because there were some psychology books I came across where it seemed that you needed a bachelor degree in psychology to understand it. Which didn’t happen with this book which is probably the best thing about this book in my opinion.

The writing style here wasn’t the greatest. You could tell that the it was written by a researcher, but it was on the worse side of things when it comes to the writing style. The writing style felt very monotone, like the author didn’t care about getting your attention and make you interested in what you read.

There were some rare examples of grit which were very good in my opinion. But the 90% of the rest examples of grit was very uninteresting and boring to say it simply and in a nice way.

In my opinion this whole book could have been taken 20 pages with things sticking to the main topic of this book. The 277 pages we get in this book are too much because we get a lot of sub stories which aren’t really relevant for the topic other than having some words relating to the topic.

I Give This Book 2 / 5

Bill Gates explains why he cares so deeply about climate change and what makes him optimistic that the world can prevent the worst impacts of the climate crisis. Gates says, “we can work on a local, national, and global level to build the technologies, businesses, and industries to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.” His interest in climate change is a natural outgrowth of the efforts by his foundation to reduce poverty and disease. Climate change, according to Gates, will have the biggest impact on the people who have done the least to cause it. 

If you forget the fact that a billionaire is writing about climate change and how we should change our lives to stop climate change then this book is very very good.

It gives us a lot of knowledge how we could change how we create energy to stop destroying the earth. Which really made me enjoy this book.

This book is very particular book if you are interested in the subject of climate change. Because this book doesn’t complain about climate change, what it does is to give you some examples and ideas how we could stop climate change.

The writing style here was very good. It made it interesting and enjoyable. But also it made the whole topic of climate change topic more understandable and easy.

This book gives gives a lot of terms and a lot of information but at the same time it makes it easy to understand. Because it explains the terms and the information which means that you don’t have to look them up on the Internet.

At the same time this book is very optimistic in the way that we can actually change things to stop climate change without making our lives miserable or even change our lives in a very huge way.

This book is also gives us reason why still so many people choose fossil, and that is because it is cheaper than the eco ways available right now.

I Give This Book 5 / 5

Wydarzenia w tej książce są oparte na faktach. Prawda bywa bardziej przerażająca od najwymyślniejszej fikcji. Josef Mengele był nie tylko zbrodniarzem, ale również opętanym szaleństwem pseudonaukowcem, który więźniów obozów koncentracyjnych wykorzystywał jako żywy materiał do swych chorych badań.

Before we start this review it is important to say that this book is only available in Polish at the time of writing this year.

This book is very easy to read and understand. And at the same time having fun with it. Before getting into this book I thought that it would be very heavy to read and boring. But the truth about this book is that it is the opposite of it.

This book has some trigger warnings about it. Because it talks a little bit about the experiments Josef Mengele had done on twins, pregnant woman and sick people in the concentration camp. Which means that its not for everyone.

However reading about these experiments done by Josef Mengele truly sets the mod about how big piece of a shit Josef Mengele really was. However the way the author told us about these experiments done done Josef Mengele almost seemed like it was some kind of horror book rather than real life events.

But it is important tot remember that this book isn’t a 100% nonfiction book, the cover of the book itself says that it is “based on true events”. And we all know how far the term “based on true events” can go from the reality.

I personally liked this book so much that a part of me wishes that it would be longer than these 350 pages that it had. I read it in 2 sittings, because it short, the chapters are also short and the way it was written makes it even faster to read because all of these words just get consumed by your brain.

The writing style is very good, because it is simple and easy to read. And it was just like the author knew exactly what words to use to grab your attention and not let it go until the very end.

I Give This Book 4 / 5

Apollodorus’ Library has been used as a source book by classicists from the time of its compilation in the 1st-2nd century BC to the present, influencing writers from antiquity to Robert Graves. It provides a complete history of Greek myth, telling the story of each of the great families of heroic mythology, and the various adventures associated with the main heroes and heroines, from Jason and Perseus to Heracles and Helen of Troy. As a primary source for Greek myth, as a reference work, and as an indication of how the Greeks themselves viewed their mythical traditions, the Library is indispensable to anyone who has an interest in classical mythology.

I had some expectations for this book, but this book didn’t live up to them.

I am interested in mythology but maybe greek mythology isn’t for me. I tried reading this book but I ended up DNF-ing this book after like 120 pages because I just couldn’t read anymore.

This book focuses a lot on genealogy which in a way annoyed me and frustrated me. 

This book is about giving us a brief overview of the major mythological events in Ancient Greece but it was very dry and uninteresting. 

This book felt like reading a religious book and not a book about mythology which really annoyed me and it was the main reason why I DNF-ed it. But also the times it didn’t eellike a religious book it felt more like a wikipedia page in a from of a book.

The writing style is very old, you can tell it from the first page. 

I Give This Book 1 / 5

In the wake of the terrible shock of 9/11, the C.I.A. scrambled to work out how to destroy Bin Laden and his associates. The C.I.A. had long familiarity with Afghanistan and had worked closely with the Taliban to defeat the Soviet Union there. A tangle of assumptions, old contacts, favours and animosities were now reactivated. Superficially the invasion was quick and efficient, but Bin Laden’s successful escape, together with that of much of the Taliban leadership, and a catastrophic failure to define the limits of NATO’s mission in a tough, impoverished country the size of Texas, created a quagmire which lasted many years.

This book was so helpful when it comes to the 9/11 and the whole USA – Afghan situation after the attacks because it gives you a lot of behind the scenes info. I personally wasn’t so up to date with all the information involving 9/11 and what role the 9/11 played in the Afghan war but this book gives us a nice and clear view on what really 9/11 meant and how USA resolved the whole Osama bin Laden situation.

This book covers 15 years in 700 ish pages which means that these 15 years which this book covers aren’t super detailed and it focused on the same situation throughout the years and what happened after Osama bin Laden was excused. 

This book is filled with names & personages and many different government offices like NSF, NSC, ISI and ISAF and this is mixed with different military terms like MICLICs and APOBS which I personally needed to Google because I had no idea what they meant because I never been in the military or super interested in it. 

The writing style here was pretty good for the most part but there were times were the writing style was super advanced and I needed to take a second to think about it to actually fully understand what I’ve just read. 

There were some parts of this book which for me personally were super boring and there were some parts who h were super interesting for me. So for the most part this book for me was a half boring and half interesting. 

I Give This Book 3 / 5

Scandinavians of the Viking Age explored the mysteries of life through their sagas. Folklorist Helene Adeline Guerber brings to life the gods and goddesses, giants and dwarves, and warriors and monsters of these stories in Tales of Norse Mythology. Ranging from the comic to the tragic, these leghends tell of passion, love, friendship, pride, courage, strength, loyalty, and betrayal.

This book have fucked up couple of names when it comes to the norse mythology, I know this since Ive been interested in the norse mythology for years now and I’ve read a lot about it by now. 

You have to know that if you want to get into norse mythology then this book isn’t the choice here. Of course this book has these amazing stories from the norse mythology but this book is very dry and it might make you hate norse mythology before you give it a good shot. 

To be full honest with you this book doesn’t tell us the stories of the norse mythology but rather just reports them to us which really made be so uninterested at times and so bored of this book. 

However this book needs to get points for giving us a good idea about the personality and the look of the major gods and goddesses in the the norse mythology which I really liked.

The writing style here was very okay for the most part but to be fully honest here with you the writing style in this book was a roller coster ride because it had many good moments but it also had many bad moments. 

For the most part this book had a very simplistic overview of the gods which really annoyed me at times. 

I Give This Book 3 / 5 

A novel about Irma Grese, one of the most cruel and bloody women in the history of the world. Irme, a supervisor of female blocks in several concentration camps, is responsible for the deaths of the women. The prisoners called her the angel of death, the beautiful beast, or the Belsen bitch. She was a perverse sadist. After the war, she was tried and sentenced to death at the age of just 22. Her story is told by a woman who became Grese’s sex slave at the age of 12

Let me start of with saying that at the time of the writing this book is only available in two languages which is Polish and Spanish. And I truly hope that soon enough this book will be translated into more languages because a lots of people will find it useful to read.

This book is about a woman named Violeta Flores Anaya who was a slave to Irma Grese. 

Irma Grese was one of the most gruesome and evil people of Nazi Germany and who did kill hundreds and hundreds of woman and kids in the concentrations camps during World War 2. 

I’m very interested in World War 2 and the holocaust and when I saw that this book was for sale in my native language which is Polish (for these of you who didn’t know) I just needed to buy this one and read it. 

I gotta say that this book was not the greatest book about the topic of World War 2 and the evil shit which was happening at that time but it isn’t the worse neither. This book is in the middle.

The writing style could be better, because there are times when it switches writing style in the middle of the page which should be illegal to do.

At the end a huge part is about the person who was interviewing Violeta Flores Anaya which really killed the mood in the book. Because everyone who picks up a book about World War 2 or Holocaust doesn’t want to read about problems of the person who is writing the book or even interviewing the person who lived through the World War 2 and Holocaust. 

The main history in this book is very interesting but its very poorly written which really sucks because this book had the chance to be a bestseller and famous book. 

And after my humble and long research I couldn’t find even one word about Violeta Flores Anaya which means that lived under the rock all her life despite the fact that she was involved with the infamous Irma Grese or it could mean that this book is just bull shit and she didn’t even exist. 

There are a lots of information about Irma Grese and the rapes which took place during World War 2 by Nazi soldiers and the higher places nazi people. But there is zero words about Violeta Flores Anaya. Which is really suspicious. 

After I finished this book I give it 3 stars but after I found out that very likely Violeta Flores Anaya doesn’t exist I changed it to 1 star.

I give this book 1 / 5