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Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
by Joshua Foer (Goodreads Author)
by Joshua Foer (Goodreads Author)
Well, I'm not going to lie, this book has already got two strikes: I basically hate the genre of "I tried to do this wacky thing, and look, I wrote a book about it!", plus he is the brother of a famouser writer whom I more or less revile. But! OMG you guys, my memory is so laughably bad. And apparently this book might possibly have a side effect of helping me improve that, which would be worth slogging through a middling memoir.
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16 mar. 13:47
now what were you talking about?
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Ha, I was wondering if they're related! I have similar hesitations, so I partly want to read it just because it's smack dab in the middle of my "I bet I'll totally love/hate it" continuum.
You're right about the 2 strikes. But you forgot the third strike... having an oblique but catchy title followed by a non-oblique but boring subtitle. I hate that trend in nonfiction... these writers need to grow a pair of balls already and figure out what/how they want to name their books... you only get one title! You can't have it both ways!
Haha that's so true. It just screams TWEE and HIPSTER, which obviously = marketing intent. Anyway, though, the book happens (so far) to be pretty interesting. It's not at all what I thought it would be; it's quite smart and well researched and often so dense with facts as to be a bit boring but also fascinating too. Not nearly so twee or hipster or even self-indulgent as I was expecting.No real judgments until I'm done though, of course.
A friend who took a book proposal-writing class said the boring subtitles are attempts to attract the most eyes in Google searches.
