Some good writing, but the tone seems a bit too preachy, the ideas a bit too precious, for me to spend my time on.

This book isn’t a page turner. Its plot is extremely simple, but it is nevertheless an interesting and relevent philosophical discussion. It definitely took me a while to get into it, but by the end I couldn’t put it down. It wasn’t one of my favorite books, but worth reading because it made me think about how I go about daily tasks in a new and interesting way. I just realized that all of the sentences have “but” in the middle, but I guess that helps explain how I feel about this book.

Got bored, couldn’t finish it, despite repeated attempts. Took it back to my little sister’s bookshelf, from whence it came. I feel kind of like I failed a lot of people, but it just wasn’t doing it for me; maybe I should’ve tried ten years ago.

I read this as part of a book club.

It’s mostly a philosophy book, but having the based-on-a-true-story plot as a framework for the philosophy essays makes it readable. It’s not bad, fairly thought-provoking.

Actually I’m consuming this edition, but it had no entries.

By the way, I think this model of pulling in all books from Amazon.com into allconsuming.net creates an artificially high number of items. Does it really matter which of the 100 editions of the 50+ editions of Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged you consume?