2.5 stars. A very tragic and dramatic story, but the book was a bit disjointed in telling it. It also spent too much time on the backstories of all th2.5 stars. A very tragic and dramatic story, but the book was a bit disjointed in telling it. It also spent too much time on the backstories of all the major Oklahoma meteorologists and took more than half its pages to actually get to the tornado in question. ...more
3 stars. An important topic, certainly, but I found the writing a little dry, and the chapters seemed more like individual essays rather than parts of3 stars. An important topic, certainly, but I found the writing a little dry, and the chapters seemed more like individual essays rather than parts of a cohesive book....more
DNF. Unfortunately, I couldn't get into this one. The writing was just a little too technical to hold my interest. DNF. Unfortunately, I couldn't get into this one. The writing was just a little too technical to hold my interest. ...more
DNF. You've heard "this could've been an email" in reference to meetings. Now meet "this could've been a blog post" instead of a book. And it probablyDNF. You've heard "this could've been an email" in reference to meetings. Now meet "this could've been a blog post" instead of a book. And it probably should've been.
Way too many anecdotes that shouldn't be generalized and far too little actual data to back up some pretty big claims. Which is a shame, because I do believe that social media algorithms and constant smartphone usage are having negative mental/emotional impacts on young people—but there's not enough here to firmly back up that hypothesis or to realistically hash out potential course corrections for that issue.
It feels like the author had a good idea he wanted to explore, but he wasn't patient enough to wait for the necessary research to support the premise to be conducted and published. So what we ended up with is a bunch of claims that aren't properly supported, along with some odd tangents that seem like filler. (The spirituality chapter, in particular, really threw me off. It felt so out of place after all the previous chapters with their graphs and charts and percentages.)
When I finally got through all the claims and reached the part of the book where the author was going to explain his proposed "solutions," I had too much doubt about the "evidence" for those claims to be interested in reading about those "solutions." So...I didn't. ...more
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