by Aseem Gupta | Apr 15, 2020 | Book Summaries and Analysis
The Playbook occupies an unusual place among television tie-in books because it does not merely explain a fictional object from How I Met Your Mother. It pretends to be that object. Credited to the fictional Barney Stinson with real-world collaborator Matt Kuhn, the...
by Aseem Gupta | Apr 14, 2020 | Book Summaries and Analysis
The Bro Code takes one of Barney Stinson’s most memorable running jokes from How I Met Your Mother and treats it with absurd seriousness. What was supposedly an unwritten set of rules governing male friendship becomes a constitution, etiquette manual, legal code,...
by Aseem Gupta | Apr 13, 2020 | Book Summaries and Analysis
George R. R. Martin’s A Clash of Kings is the second novel in A Song of Ice and Fire, following the political collapse and personal catastrophes of A Game of Thrones. The official Penguin Random House listing identifies it as the second volume in the series, but...
by Aseem Gupta | Apr 6, 2020 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Neil Strauss begins Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life with a problem that seems practical but is ultimately psychological. He has begun looking at ordinary life through what he calls “apocalypse eyes.” Airports become potential bombing sites, cities become...
by Aseem Gupta | Apr 3, 2020 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Marie Forleo’s Everything Is Figureoutable is built around a phrase so sweeping that it can sound either liberating or absurd: everything, apparently, can be figured out. Taken literally, that claim is impossible to defend. Illness cannot always be cured, death cannot...
