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Never ever make a promise you can’t keep

Title: The 5th wave
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Year: 2013
Pages: 480
ISBN: 978-014-134-583-3

„The 1st wave took out half a million people. The 2nd wave put that number to shame. The 3rd wave? That took a little longer, twelve weeks…four billion people… In the 4th wave, you can’t trust that people are still people. And the 5th wave? No one knows. But it’s coming.”

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The Great Rushdie

Title: Joseph Anton: A Memoir
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Year: 2012
Pages: 656
ISBN: 978-0-224-09397-2

Joseph Anton is Rushdie’s account of the time spent in hiding from Iranian extremists trying to act on the late Ayatollah Khomeini’s death sentence to the author of The Satanic Verses, but also a memoir of his earlier years.

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Enjoyable but deep as a puddle

Title: On Dublin Street
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Year: 2013
Pages: 414
ISBN: 978-140-591-298-3

What do you do when you don’t know which approach to take on reviewing a book that isn’t exactly your cup of tea, doesn’t even come close to what literature is, even contemporary one at that, but in spite of all this you thoroughly enjoyed it?

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Things that gain from disorder

Title: Antifragile. How to Live in a World We Don’t Understand
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Year: 2013
Pages: 544
ISBN: 9781846141560

Antifragile is not what you call easy material. Neither to read, nor to summarize. This book is many things and definitely not what you expected. But at least, I can promise you won't get bored because the author is not fooling around spending 500 pages for some 50 pages ideas. Each paragraph is rich in information and pretty useful. Taleb explains the ethics of Fragility and Antifragility, answering a lot of questions like: how we missed the word antifragility in classrooms, where do we find overcompensation, why death is a necessity for life, which are the benefits of error for the collective, how antifragility of the whole often depends on the fragility of the parts, which are the flaws of intellectualism. He goes on with many other questions that people are too afraid to ask, or have no one to talk about with. He even dares to say that obsessive love is the most antifragile thing outside the economics.

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