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Maria Roberta mariarcp — This book was like ...........Boring.............snoozefest.............omygosh this is awesome what is this..The End. Danget now I have to go and read the next one.

Jazmin Johnson jazminjjohfaaa — After reading a number of Chuck Palahniuk books, I have come to find them rather formulaic in a particular and absurd way. Lullaby fit this mold perfectly -- the character archetypes, the anarchist overtones, the repetitive dialogue ("and I'm counting one, two, three..."), the character quirks. I could go on. Despite that, I rated this book four stars because a) the underlying story was so interesting, despite the disjointed way it was presented, and b) this book is on the same level as his other works, which I also liked and rated highly. I truly think that whichever of his books I read first I would have been more drawn to, and whichever I read later I would think were derivative. That all being said, I think I'll be taking a break from reading any Chuck Palahniuk novels for a good long while.

Pixel Charles _ixel_harles — I really enjoyed Everything is Obvious. Watts's thesis is that "common sense" is a wonderful tool for making sense out of what has happened, but that it is not good at grasping the true reality behind complex things. As an example, he talks about how we refer to "the market" in near-human terms, saying things like "the market reacted to the Fed report" or "the market fell because of bad housing data". These explanations simplify things far too much - "the market" is a huge, complex system of people, businesses, and machines, and can't be condensed (in general) into these summaries. They are, rather, a way of making some sense of what happened. If they truly captured something of reality, then they would have predictive power - that is, the next time that bad housing data came out, we could predict that the market would fall approximately the same amount. Unfortunately, it doesn't work that way - the cause and effect isn't that cut and dry. Another example that I loved was that of a sociologist who told his students that during World War II the soldiers from rural areas adapted to the war much better than those from urban areas, and asked his students to think about why. They suggested that it was common sense - they were used to waking up early, working hard, going without luxuries, etc. Only it wasn't true. In fact, urban soldiers fared much better. Our mind is just so good at thinking up explanations to fit what we think we know, and these explanations quickly pass into "common sense". Dr. Watts argues that we need to question common sense more often, and that we are living in a technological age where that is becoming more and more realistic.

Reiyu Chang reiyuchangc208 — I loved Eragon and couldn't get enough, but this book lost momentum half-way through and I just about didn't finish it. The author took forever to say anything. Skimming turned out to be the only way for me to finish it and move on to #3. Hurray!