I was a bit hesitant to put a book with a cuss word in the title on my reading list, but I figured F*ck it, I’ll do it anyway.
Honestly this is the best self-help book I’ve ever read. The book isn’t about how not to care about anything, but to be cautious about what you do care about. You only have so much time in your life, and you have to pick what you choose to focus on.
The book covers many topics, and can be quite blunt at times. Mark Manson’s frankness could be a turn off to some readers, but I really enjoyed it. Mark opens up and shares personal stories and anecdotes that help drive home his points. He can also be quite funny.
I didn’t agree with everything he said, but even when I didn’t concur with his conclusions, I understood where he was coming from.
Overall if you like self-help books and can deal with some bluntness and profanity, I’d highly recommend it!
Social skills have never been my strong suit, but I decided this social weakness of mine was holding me back. So I decided to read this book. The novel gives you 8 principles to help you make friends and influence people.
All 8 principles make sense. They aren’t exactly groundbreaking and I kind of already knew them, but Dale really helps you see how important they are.
The book is full of personal stories from people the author knew, students of his and historical figurers. I found the stories super interesting and inspirational.
This book was published way back in the 1930s. So many of the stories he tells are ones I’ve never heard of before. The book was updated to share more recent stories, and probably to make other small changes too. The inclusions of stories that happened long after the 1930s felt a little weird to me. It kinda felt like somebody was hijacking Dales voice.
Overall I loved the book and if you are trying to improve your interpersonal skills I highly recommend this book.
I was a big fan of the avatar show when it first came out. I also loved korra and I still sometimes revisit both shows from time to time. In my opinion they are by far the best shows nick has ever produced.
I’ve known about the books for a while, but I decided to read them recently. And I figured why not review them. There are a lot of books in the avatar franchise. You wouldn’t believe how far the rabbit hole goes. As far as I can tell there are 5 major graphic novels that bridge the Air bender and Korra shows . Each of the books is broken up into 3 parts and the first one is called the Promise. Which is where I will begin.
Avatar wiki on all graphic novels
Overall I loved the first book. The art style is a little different from the show, and it can be a bit jarring at times, but I’m sure I’ll get use to it. In many ways it felt like a new episode of the show. Heck it even started off with a comic version of the intro with some new content to get you caught up. The characters also felt a little off from how they normally behave. It still felt like avatar, and they never did anything you wouldn’t expect them to do from the show. At the end of the day it’s an adaptation, it’s not going to feel exactly the same and that’s OK. I’m sure a lot of the problems I’ve had will be solved in future books. The writers need time to get into the groove, but even so it’s off to a strong start. The art still looks amazing, the fight scenes look sharp, the colors are vibrant. It’s just different. I loved how this book is starting to talk about the after effects of the 100-year war. It’s nice to see Aang and Katar in a relationship, and it’s nice to see the gang face real problems outside punching some fire benders. They will need to learn a new set of skills to face these challenges. They have gone from being a small group of kids camping in the woods to world leaders.
I hate the promise to kill me trope. Zuko was being all emo in this book. He was worried that he’d become evil like his dad. So he asked Aang to kill him if he ever turns to the dark side. What a horrible thing to ask a friend to do. You are placing them in an awful position. Not to mention it kind of feels like you are just taking a burden off yourself and placing it on someone else.
Aang didn’t even kill Ozai, why couldn’t he just take away Zuko’s bending? It feels like a cheap way to raise the tension.
I don’t want to be negative though. I loved seeing the gang again, and I think the highlight of this book was dealing with the fire nation colonies. Looking at a map it seems simple. The fire nation citizens living in the colonies should go home, but many of the people who live there have been born and raised