Comments on: What I’m Reading http://www.ryanholiday.net/what-im-reading-13/ Meditations on strategy and life Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:06:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Ryan Holiday http://www.ryanholiday.net/what-im-reading-13/#comment-10901 Ryan Holiday Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:15:54 +0000 http://dev.ryanholiday.net/what-im-reading-13/#comment-10901 Footnotes are wonderful. The problem is when an author can't say no to themselves and feels the need to included <em>everything</em> that pops into their head. Footnotes are wonderful. The problem is when an author can’t say no to themselves and feels the need to included everything that pops into their head.

]]> By: Aidan Nulman http://www.ryanholiday.net/what-im-reading-13/#comment-10900 Aidan Nulman Thu, 15 Jan 2009 01:15:20 +0000 http://dev.ryanholiday.net/what-im-reading-13/#comment-10900 What you said about the footnoting in Hahn's book really struck a chord with me. While I haven't read it, I did check out John Sellers' Perfect From Now On, and he has a footnote that spans well over two or three pages. It really adds to the book's conversational style. I think it's unfair to say that an author interrupting themselves with footnotes/tangents is necessarily a bad thing. Sellers' voice in PFNO is incredible. Though it may still be (and probably still is) the case with Tower Menagerie... What you said about the footnoting in Hahn’s book really struck a chord with me. While I haven’t read it, I did check out John Sellers’ Perfect From Now On, and he has a footnote that spans well over two or three pages. It really adds to the book’s conversational style.

I think it’s unfair to say that an author interrupting themselves with footnotes/tangents is necessarily a bad thing. Sellers’ voice in PFNO is incredible. Though it may still be (and probably still is) the case with Tower Menagerie…

]]> By: steve@steve.com http://www.ryanholiday.net/what-im-reading-13/#comment-10899 steve@steve.com Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:21:22 +0000 http://dev.ryanholiday.net/what-im-reading-13/#comment-10899 Tribes could have been a good book. Its a great topic, and it is, in my opinion, a book that should be written. But all Godin does in the book is talk about that it is important, and that it is happening (social networking, using such things to make your on communities and what not) But it was complete garbage. Basically just repeats himself about the importance of it, and the whole thing is really repetitive IMO. There was like one or two pages where he actually offers steps to creating tribes, but overall, most of the book is just repetition on the fact there are these tribes out there, as he coins it, and they are all over the place, and that it is a good idea, and thats it. Some advice on how to create these tribes or something besides repetition would have made the book a lot better. And the Amazon reviews are Garbage as well. Clearly, his tribe just five stared it. Look at the three star reviews and you will see what I am talking about. Godin mailed it in for this book. Tribes could have been a good book. Its a great topic, and it is, in my opinion, a book that should be written. But all Godin does in the book is talk about that it is important, and that it is happening (social networking, using such things to make your on communities and what not) But it was complete garbage. Basically just repeats himself about the importance of it, and the whole thing is really repetitive IMO. There was like one or two pages where he actually offers steps to creating tribes, but overall, most of the book is just repetition on the fact there are these tribes out there, as he coins it, and they are all over the place, and that it is a good idea, and thats it. Some advice on how to create these tribes or something besides repetition would have made the book a lot better.

And the Amazon reviews are Garbage as well. Clearly, his tribe just five stared it. Look at the three star reviews and you will see what I am talking about. Godin mailed it in for this book.

]]> By: Pizzamancer http://www.ryanholiday.net/what-im-reading-13/#comment-10898 Pizzamancer Tue, 13 Jan 2009 22:09:28 +0000 http://dev.ryanholiday.net/what-im-reading-13/#comment-10898 Hey Ryan - Pizzamancer here. I totally agree with your call on Seth Godin. His blog posts of late have really been off. I actually blogged about one here :http://tinyurl.com/aysnxa What I didn't mention there was that his other conclusions are 100% off the mark. Like Miley Cyrus making it big on any account of her own merit. (12/29 post). He seems to be coming up with more misses than hits lately. It does surprise me, from the Amazon reviews, that you even picked up that book though. Hey Ryan – Pizzamancer here. I totally agree with your call on Seth Godin. His blog posts of late have really been off. I actually blogged about one here :http://tinyurl.com/aysnxa

What I didn’t mention there was that his other conclusions are 100% off the mark. Like Miley Cyrus making it big on any account of her own merit. (12/29 post).

He seems to be coming up with more misses than hits lately. It does surprise me, from the Amazon reviews, that you even picked up that book though.

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