Waste of paper-no content!!
355777
Really not a lot of content and not inspirational at all-basically read like a long pamphlet rather then a book-like the Author tried to just come up with random sentences to fill the pages-huge waste of money
2375228
I recently joined a book club and this book was picked as book of the month. I can not stress enough what a waste of time and money. Usually I will finish the book even if I am not trilled about it but this one.... no way.
I have read half of the book waiting for something that will make this book worth my time but nope, I found nothing. This book has no flow or any interesting points for that matter. Not funny AT ALL.
Please, do not waste your time on this one!
2082366
I would give this zero stars if I could.  Absolutely nothing in this pamphlet (it's not a book) is a revelation.  You can get all the information in here from just a couple minutes of searching on the Internet.  A complete waste of money!  25 pages with large font and the "book" size is about 6" x 8 /12" - I read it all in about 5 minutes.  No recipes at all.  See the photo on the front?  It looks like there will be meal plans but there is nothing of the sort.  I think the photo depicts adding yogurt to a meal.

In chapter 2 you get this gem of a paragraph... "This isn't necessarily a bad thing, as in, it's not going to ruin anything for you except for the fact you are going to get a buildup of other things. As I already said, however, it's easy to fix."  Who wrote this? A kid???
4920545
Oh Lord! This is so poorly written, what a mess. Just a random bunch of words thrown onto paper. Hopefully no one paid to publish this rubbish. Was this suppose to be a joke?
2969867
Author doesn't have anything in this book which not already available free of cost on the internet.  It was a total waste of my time and money procuring and reading this book.  May be useful to people who can't search items on their own online. Admire the market who knew how to title useless books like these!!
807641
Waste of time, only 20 real pages and no real content. Most expensive 'book', it is really a pamphlet, that I have EVER bought in 54 years on this earth!
4707220
"Pure drivel"  is how I would describe this book.  Absolutely no content.  I heard about this book when its author was interviewed on NPR radio.  I was intrigued by the idea of vertical farming, and thought the book would tell me something about it.  The book completely failed me.

The first 131 pages of the book (out of a total of 268 pages) do not discuss the vertical farm AT ALL!  Instead, the first 131 pages consist of a directionless wander through the history of the planet and of mankind, including discussion of ecosystems, "technospheres" (whatever they are!), the dustbowl of the 1930s, the spread of infectious agents, the Bible and the Reverand Billy Graham, John Steinbeck and "The Grapes of Wrath", the US Civil War, the oil industry, dynamite, the Atomic Bomb, injustice and inequality, climate change, Charles Darwin and the Galapagos Islands, genetically-modified organisms (GMOs),  and HIV/AIDS.  Most of these subject have little, if anything to do with vertical farming.

I got excited when I reached the 2nd half of the book and Chapter 5 entitled "The Vertical Farm:  Advantages."  Finally, I thought, a discussion of the vertical farm.  Alas, no such luck.  Very little of the second half of the book addresses vertical farming.  What discussion there is about vertical farming addresses either technologies most of us know about -- such as hydroponic growing and photovoltaic cells -- or about ideas that are so far-fetched they are hardly worth discussing.  The words "could", "would" and "should" are a prevalent as rats in a sewer.

If you want to get the entire content of the book, refer to pages 145-146 where a list of eleven advantages of vertical farming are given (double-spaced, I presume, to take up more space than they deserve).  That's all the real content of the book.  Eleven bullet points.

(By the way, if you are looking for a list of disadvantages of vertical farming, don't bother.  The author wants us to believe that vertical farming will solve all of mankind's problems.)

I think vertical farming is a wonderful idea with lots of potential.  The problem with this book is that it does not advance the idea of vertical farming; more likely it will hinder its development by causing sensible, reasonable people to conclude that advocates of vertical farming hallucinate way too much.
3317058
I was excited to see this topic, and browsed through the quick review screen shots. Wow, what a disappointment! Thank you, Amazon, for letting me take a peek inside. You saved me from making a bad purchase. At least 4 of the pages (140,141,142,143) are blank for the reader to fill with his or her own notes. I guess they needed something to help spread out the author's collection of plagiarized articles. Save your money folks, and do your own internet research to find the original articles.
710194
I was anxiously awaiting this book, as I had been doing for the previous two.  Another letdown, I must say.  I actually purchased the hardcover version of this novel in anticipation of the forthcoming events.  In  retrospect, I can't remember one significant thing that happened in the  book, as far as the major plotlines go.  DO NOT purchase this book...take  it out of the library or something....it was a complete waste of paper.
4791310
What can I say about this book besides "DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME"? I was asked to read this book and to create a slideshow that would be presented across the country regarding serial killers, but this book is such a waste of paper. I can't even stress to you enough how irrelevant a generous portion of the information in this book is. After completing the job I was asked to do, I proceeded to flip through the book to see how much unnecessary information could have been excluded, and I'm certain we would have been left with two or three very short chapters. If you're looking for a biography that goes off on tangent after tangent then this is the book for you! If you're looking for a meatier text chock full of information and facts, look elsewhere. I can't even believe any publishing company would waste their time and money on this...who was the editor for God's sake?!
All in all, don't buy this book. Don't borrow it from a friend. Don't take it outof the library. Burn every copy you lay eyes on and run far, far away as quickly as your legs will take you.
1171800
This book is so empty and valueless that it got me to write my first ever review. No half-developed human would give this book - about as full of meaningful ideas as cotton candy is of nutritional value - more than zero stars. Anyone who does can rightfully be suspect of being fake identities of a money spinning marketing company. JIm Rohn has great things to say - elsewhere. Any you tube video of the man himself speaking contains more for the soul than this absolute waste of time and money. Do yourself the best favour you can at this very moment ...don't buy it ... you will regret it (but it just might get you involved by writing your own review :-) ).

Facrt: the book (hahahah!) is no more than 30 pages of text, a third of which is advertising for other classics such as 'How to attract a woman" and "Should I Divorce" and an 'interview' of JIm (?) someone else rambling.

Anyway ... you can also pay 9 bucks to decide for yourself :-)
3828090
No story at all! No character development. Unnecessary ramblings about things that never helped the story progress. Completely boring all the way to the last page! The men in this book talked and acted in ways that are from the psyche of a woman(written by delusional one). The main character was way too dumb. This is the worst book I ever read! Total waste of time& my dollar. Garbage!! Don't write any more books... PLEASE!!!
3874926
There were only a few coloring pagesthe book - no story or information for kids about leaves! Over 2/3 of the book was blank! Supposedly for a leaf album, but no directions!
3646468
This will be my first and only online review of any of my 200+ books in my library. But it needed to be said... The Biggest disappointment I have ever purchased...

1 Star

Two Thumbs Down

A Complete waste of money!

212 total pages (With Huge fonts and Filler pages after every Chapter Title Page)

4 Pages of Filler for "note"-taking in the back

17 Pages of "Constant Payment Tables/Remaining Loan Balance" Charts

The Book Averages 4 pages (Sides not full) per chapter of info

Page 151 is the Start of the Appendix
2180029
I was really disappointed in this book.  I was expecting at least some basic guidelines regarding photographing the 104 items.  The book consisted of 104 blank pages with one simple phrase on each page.  The same content could be typed on one 8 1/2 x 11 inch page!  I would not recommend this book to anyone!
2211658
This book doesn't deserve even 1 star! This writer rambled on about the least significant things and places and it appeared she was trying to "fill pages" Do not waste money on this one!
1522741
TOTAL CRAP!!!! What a rip off! I'm not sure if there's even 21 sentences in this slim phamplet pretending to be a book. It reads like a bad student's term paper glued together to make a leaflet. Some pages have only one sentence in the middle of the page and the information looks like it was copied of Wikepedia.

Save your money!!!!!