Simple stories, simple book. I got the feeling that the selling point of the book is the notes of Dumbledore not the stories. I don't agree all of the points of Dumbledore, but reading the notes gives a feeling of revisiting Harry Potter's world.
Was quite fun in the beginning, but up to 1/3 of the books he already repeated four times how he learned that he was not as smart as he thought. I was growing tired of reading the same thing.
If you are a fans of Freakonomics, then stay away from Superfreakonomics. The book has an unified theme, but has no unified way of writing. In each chapter, the authors spent many paragraphs to talk about many other things before going into the main point of the chapter, but spent too little on it.
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If you are a fans of Freakonomics, then stay away from Superfreakonomics. The book has an unified theme, but has no unified way of writing. In each chapter, the authors spent many paragraphs to talk about many other things before going into the main point of the chapter, but spent too little on it. For example the last two chapters, they kept telling us how great the company IV is, how clever the scientists they are, how much good deeds (inventions) or patents owned by them, how are they the saviours of our planet... but I am reading a book regarding hidden economic facts, not the IV biography!
Lastly, why the hell economists spend their time and fund to study if monkeys are like people? Will the human world leap a big advance if monkeys are proven to have the same behaviour as human - or it is just that we can have a new subject in university - "Monkeyonomics"?
Many questions pop up after reading the book. What is good? What is bad? What is your value? Is your boss right every time? Listen to your boss or listen to your heart?
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Simple stories, simple book. I got the feeling that the selling point of the book is the notes of Dumbledore not the stories. I don't agree all of the points of Dumbledore, but reading the notes gives a feeling of revisiting Harry Potter's world.