I was looking for a fun book to read and found it in Starting from Happy. The book is spun-sugar and runs the risk of overdoing its confectionary ambitions. There are a few contrivances employed by Marx that would be annoying in a more challenging book but here do nothing to detract, even as th...
This book was terrible. I couldn't finish it. It was trying way, way too hard to be funny, but it just came off as pretentious and uninteresting. Very little real plot or characterization, just gimmicks (the author's hand-drawn pictures and graphs, the entire book written in numbered "chaplett...