I cannot claim this to be a true 'Review' due to the fact that I have only struggled my way nearly 200 pages into this book, with no end in sight. Most reviews that I have found online for this book are positive, some claiming that it is 'profound', 'amazing', and 'ground breaking'.
Am I the only person who had a lot of trouble getting through it?? I felt as though within the first 100 pages Friedman said 'hot, flat, and crowded' about 50 times. I understand that he is trying to make a brand, but such repetition is unnecessary, we get it, it's not that difficult of a concept to grasp! Friedman also has a tendency to make the reader feel unintelligent, repeating the same statement several times, dumbing it down a little more each time he time he says it. We are not elementary school children, and that fact of the matter is, if we picked up your book, we are probably interested in the environment and have a little background knowledge on the subject.
What really gets me is the way that Friedman talks about North Americans and how we have the largest carbon footprint and that we all need to cut back, (which I completely agree with)- and then you see a picture of his house! By the way he talks in his book you'd expect to see windmills, well at least some solar panels - you couldn't be more wrong...
Am I the only person who had a lot of trouble getting through it?? I felt as though within the first 100 pages Friedman said 'hot, flat, and crowded' about 50 times. I understand that he is trying to make a brand, but such repetition is unnecessary, we get it, it's not that difficult of a concept to grasp! Friedman also has a tendency to make the reader feel unintelligent, repeating the same statement several times, dumbing it down a little more each time he time he says it. We are not elementary school children, and that fact of the matter is, if we picked up your book, we are probably interested in the environment and have a little background knowledge on the subject.
What really gets me is the way that Friedman talks about North Americans and how we have the largest carbon footprint and that we all need to cut back, (which I completely agree with)- and then you see a picture of his house! By the way he talks in his book you'd expect to see windmills, well at least some solar panels - you couldn't be more wrong...
Photo: Planet Gore
There are a lot of interesting ideas and quotes that Friedman uses from outside sources for his book and because of this I do plan on finishing it, but when I will get around to finishing...? I can safely say it's going to take me a long while.
Did you know that Thomas Friedman is a billionaire??? Follow this link to find out more: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/7/31/121447/985
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