by Aseem Gupta | Mar 31, 2020 | Book Summaries and Analysis
First published in 1996, A Game of Thrones is the opening novel of George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire, an epic fantasy series built around dynastic politics, fractured families, competing moral codes, and a supernatural danger most of its characters...
by Aseem Gupta | Mar 27, 2020 | Book Summaries and Analysis
James Clear’s Atomic Habits became one of the defining self-improvement books of its era because it offers an appealing answer to a familiar problem: people often know what they want to change, yet repeatedly fail to make that change endure. Clear argues that the...
by Aseem Gupta | Mar 22, 2020 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Published in 2007, The Mystery Method: How to Get Beautiful Women Into Bed is one of the most systematic products of the early pickup-artist movement. Credited to Mystery, the stage name of Erik von Markovik, with Chris Odom, the book attempts something more ambitious...
by Aseem Gupta | Mar 20, 2020 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Trevor Noah’s Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood is often described as a celebrity memoir, but that description captures only its most superficial feature. The book ends before Noah’s international fame becomes its subject. Instead, it reconstructs...
by Aseem Gupta | Mar 18, 2020 | Book Summaries and Analysis
J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings is often spoken of as a trilogy because it was published in three volumes—The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King. That description is convenient but structurally misleading. Tolkien wrote it as...
