More like a blog post than a book
926321
Not very readable.  More like a blog post than a book.
4557147
I am very disappointed. Mr. Ferriss has unfortunately has been skating on success since the 4-hour Workweek. His other books, Body, Chef, and now Tools, are largely retreads of old news. It's a shame. He has a knack for marketing his ability to speak with well knowns (in many areas) and so those of us expecting something as enlightening a 4HWWK continue to be disappointed. He, along with his publishers, have made a success out of producing very large books (pages) with very little actionable material. Meditation, favorite books, etc of successful people in various areas does not cut it. This book is essentially blog posts re-edited (some not), so if your in the mood for reading old blog information compiled into one giant edition-then maybe you will find new info. Other readers will be disappointed. I'll say that I'm not happy about writing this-but as much as I enjoyed his first book 4HWWK (I enjoyed thinking about life lived under a new, more personal paradigm) his last three are incredible let downs. He has become a compiler and marketer rather than the original thinker he showed in 4HWWK.
3816238
This barely qualifies as a book. Line spacing is crazy, number of empty pages is too high, but still - I liked the "book".

This should have been a blog post at best, 5 or 10 pages could have described everything perfectly.
Comes down to few good checklists and guidelines, and the humor is there, in a OK manner. :)

Seriously - I'm a slow reader, and I read this thing in 1 hour.
Half way through I thought I wouldn't like it, because it was too simple and not "serious enough", but at the end I felt happy and glad that I read it.

Nice little afternoon booky. :)
Def not worth $15+ (with the shipping), but it's worth the Kindle price of few bucks.
137819
The author writes about being a researcher, but there's no hard data in this book - which is still needed regardless of the research method she uses. She also does not always give the source when she quotes someone, something a researcher would never do. Instead of telling the actual stories of the people she's supposedly interviewed (I only recall one story she actually quoted), her evidence is anecdotal and, worse, she uses herself as her primary source of information. Like others have stated, this reads like a self-absorbed blog. Some good premises, but she never gets to the meat of the matter.  All the meaningful take-aways were from people she quoted.
4432713
As is the case with many business books, this would have made a better article.  There is a great deal of redundancy, and a disappointing shortage of insights.  In addition, for some reason the authors decided to alternate writing without letting you know which one was doing the writing. I feel "Blogging for Business" (Holz and Demopoulos) and especially "The New Rules of Marketing & PR" (David Meerman Scott) were much more interesting and informative.
1484711
I was very excited about getting this book. I follow the blog and I had been eagerly anticipating it, but I was kind of disappointed. It's small and thin, although it does have nice photographs.  I just don't think it's worth what they're charging.
3001465
I followed along with the blog for a while.  The entry about Nella's birth was very sweet and emotional.  But as the days and weeks and months followed, the blog seemed more like a showcase for Kelle.  Fair enough; it was her blog.  But as I read along I wondered how a mother with two young children (one of whom has special needs) had time to A) write LONG, self-indulgent, flowery blog entries; B) take pictures of her children from every angle AND edit them perfectly in Photoshop, each one of them, before posting them on the blog; and C) not only take pictures of her children but also pictures of herself, flawlessly made up, from every angle - I sure got sick of seeing her painted toes - and Photoshop THOSE before putting them on the blog.

I found myself wondering if this woman had ever scrubbed a toilet or stayed up all night with a sick baby in her entire life.  It quickly seemed like Kelle was fishing for compliments on her writing and her photography more than compliments on her children.  I got tired of it and finally quit reading.  And now she's written a whole BOOK?  Well, I guess self-indulgent blogs do eventually pay off for some people.
4427125
This is a collection of blog posts. I think the author was attempting to write in a sweeping epic style. However, it comes off as the ramblings of an angry teenager. There is some basic self help knowledge salt and peppered through out the book. Paul has nothing original or insightful that he brings to the table. The positive reviews of this work can be attributed to a small internet fan base. At the end of the day this is just another man's attempt to not work.
2381299
Entertaining read, but seems like a reorganization of her blog posts into a literary format.
4478828
This reads like what it is--a collection of blog posts.  There's a lot of common sense in here, and a lot this-worked-for-me, can't-promise-it-will-work-for-you type of stuff, but I wouldn't call it nuts-and-bolts practical.  And I wouldn't even call it a "guide," rather a really long pep talk loaded with lots of "Hey did you read any of my fiction books yet?" advertising.  And nearly every section includes parenthetical references to other sections or other books, as if this were an actual reference book.  This made me feel like I was being pitched ideas, or maybe like the author was insisting that her information was helpful because, gosh, there's even *more* info in this other spot!  I don't know anybody who would flip through an ebook to read a few more paragraphs on a subject when that info should have already been in the section the reader is already reading.

Some folks may find this to be incredibly helpful/motivational, but I dreaded reading it after about 15%.  At around 50% I resorted to skimming, hoping to find information that would actually be helpful and that wasn't readily available on every other indie author blog/website/FAQ.

If you're looking for a success story to motivate you to write, read this.  If you need someone to tell you that spamming Twitter and Facebook won't get you book sales, read this.  If you love this author, read this.  But, if you're writing a book, or wrote a book, and you're looking for actual "how to" information (things like copyright and fair use rules, do's and don'ts, contract help, etc.), skip this one.
4900160
I was a little disappointed by the way this book was structured.  It reads like a blog, albeit it is actually printed on paper (no pun intended).  The manuscript is composed of short chapters/sessions and information bites.  It tells the reader a number of interesting stories, in the format of executive summaries.  In summary, I haven't learned too much about Big Data by reading this book (if any); small data only.
2643206
It's just a collection of post from her blog on writing. The posts have good advice, but I thought the book would be more structured.
4093907
This book was a glorified blog post and very wordy.
I appreciate her heart for the Lord, but I am wildly underwhelmed by the quality of her writing. There is nothing new or remarkable she adds to mainstream discussions.
2814707
I loved this book until I read his blog. Things just don't add up. So did he change things to make the book more dramatic? I feel cheated and lied to. That's why I took two stars off. Yes he's a great writer, but he says at the end of his blog that it a true account and some things aren't pretty, but then like I said his blog and the book are not the same. I won't go into the parts that make me feel this part fiction, I'll leave that for you to see for yourself, but read his blog either first or after and you'll see that things don't add up to be a TRUE account of his time on the trail and the things that happened to the people he walked with.
4632870
Very promising title but I guess I was just expecting way too much out of this product. Not sure I'm a big fan of selling these many versions of a larger book without giving the purchaser a lot more idea of what they're getting for the money. This not just this one book, but since this is the one I'm reviewing is the one I will use to point out what I perceived to be a real problem.

That's not the only reason the book only earned a three star rating. There were a number of points in the text that I felt the author was being a bit pedantic it is writing. This was especially true during sections where he used the text to sell personal or other products and then called it advice to the reader. A number of the links in the book were dead, and the ones that weren't often didn't deliver on the promise from the book. I'd like to see the writer go back through and correct the errors, find better sites, and maybe try to sell less products while giving better advice.

I don't want anyone to choose not to use this book based solely on this review. Some of the issues I had with it are probably because of the great disadvantage I hold when it comes to blogging of any type. I've never done it and thought this book would be a good way to not only get introduced to the method but also learn how it is been used by some for a bit of financial gain. Before I published my first book I had to learn about the publishing industry a great deal, and so I assume the same was true about blogging. Where I had Writer's Guide and Writer's Market to help me in publishing the first book, I had hoped that this book would be just as useful. I can see that it does have some good value to it, and considering the low price is probably well worth the investment, but a very review was for stars or five stars what would be the use of having a review system? Sometimes the two or three star review can give you plenty of information even if it does result in a purchase afterward.
4564720
I read though this book in about an hour.  I did not find it worth the purchase.  You can find similar content on blogs online.  I was looking for much more detailed content and current suggestions.
400975
This is a decent summary of each chapter, but was lacking in detail that would help the reader to understand more fully the connections between the characters and the geography of the land, as well as conflict and ally's between regions and people's.
Additionally, the writer was EXTREMELY casual. It is apparent (not only because she says so) that this "book" is just a dump of blog entries.
It would have been nice if she had cleaned it up (off color words, slang) and embellished the chapter summaries more prior to publishing as a book.  You can't help but wonder why did you have to pay for someone's blog dump?