I heard Jacob Collier say "I don't believe [Rick Rubin's] audience is creative people. I think his audience is people who aren't creative, for whom crI heard Jacob Collier say "I don't believe [Rick Rubin's] audience is creative people. I think his audience is people who aren't creative, for whom creativity is novel" and now my entire perception of this book is refracted through that lens
Some great one-liners but this reads like a book of quotes and quips with padding around them, and suggests one specific way to be 'creative'. Any truly, innately creative person would not confine themselves to this ideology, and so emerges two different types of people: those who are creative by nature and those who believe creativity is frivolous, the antithesis of work. By pandering to the latter, this unfortunately fails to provide much useful advice. There's a definite disconnect between creative people and the target audience for this book, The Creative Act....more
This reads like a Victorian novel (derogatory) in its excessive level of detail and convoluted sentence structure. Though each individual sentence isThis reads like a Victorian novel (derogatory) in its excessive level of detail and convoluted sentence structure. Though each individual sentence is well crafted, combined together it mostly reads as tangential nonsense. There are some gorgeous lines but it’s like sifting through sand for hours in search of a few pearls.
Ultimately the story is difficult to follow, and unfortunately the effort to decipher the plot is unrewarding. So much going on and yet…. nothing, really....more
genuinely funny with so many one-liner zingers, but also really interesting commentary on parenting, monogamweird books are sooooooo back i loved this
genuinely funny with so many one-liner zingers, but also really interesting commentary on parenting, monogamy, the institution of marriage, pooled wisdom, menopause, and sexuality
you think you know YEARNING and then you read madonna in a fur coat!!!!!!!!!!! you think you know THE FLEETING NATURE OF HAPPINESS and then you read myou think you know YEARNING and then you read madonna in a fur coat!!!!!!!!!!! you think you know THE FLEETING NATURE OF HAPPINESS and then you read madonna in a fur coat!!!!!!!!!!! you think you know UNREQUITED LOVE and then you read madonna in a fur coat!!!!!!!!!!!...more
Martyr! is the kind of book you never forget reading. I wish I could wipe my brain clean and read it again for the first time.
But, then again, I'm alMartyr! is the kind of book you never forget reading. I wish I could wipe my brain clean and read it again for the first time.
But, then again, I'm also grateful to now be equipped with the vocabulary to explain big philosophical ideas in palatable ways. This book carefully considers themes of grief, martyrdom, sobriety/addiction, family, apathy, social/cultural identity, and so much more. It's hard to explain the plot - or even the structure, which is marvellously fluid - but I think that's the beauty of it. Ultimately it's a book about morality and mortality, following an Iranian man whose parents have both died (one in a plane crash, one by subsequent suicide) negotiating the concept of death. He hears about an artist in Brooklyn who is spending her final days (she has been diagnosed with cancer) sitting in a museum and talking to visitors about anything they choose, and decides he'd appreciate her company.
While this book contemplates big ideas, Kaveh Akbar also isn't shy about confessing that sometimes we DON'T KNOW the answer. Sometimes there is no straightforward solution or explanation. That's part of the human experience, too, this not knowing.
What I do know is that this book was an easy 5 star read, and one I'll be returning to again and again and again....more
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