by Aseem Gupta | Jan 26, 2022 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Martin Prescott’s Quit Porn and Get Rich: The Unspoken Rule of Successful People has a title that sounds as though it promises a wonderfully simple wealth formula: stop watching pornography and money will follow. The book itself makes a more complicated argument....
by Aseem Gupta | Jan 13, 2022 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Dan Bacon’s The Flow: The Easiest Way to Get Laid or Get a Girlfriend promises to turn dating from something uncertain and dependent on luck into a repeatable process. First released in 2005 as one of the foundational products of The Modern Man, the book belongs to...
by Aseem Gupta | Dec 31, 2021 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Kitty Flanagan’s More Rules for Life: A Special Volume for Enthusiasts begins with a premise that should, in theory, have been impossible. Her previous book had already offered hundreds of instructions for behaving correctly, yet ordinary life kept producing new...
by Aseem Gupta | Dec 24, 2021 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Mario Puzo’s 1996 novel The Last Don returns to the world that made him famous—Mafia families, inherited loyalties, private systems of justice, and men who can move comfortably between affection and murder—but its central problem is different from the one that...
by Aseem Gupta | Dec 20, 2021 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Beowulf survives from a world more than a thousand years distant from ours, yet its central problem is immediately recognizable: what happens to a society that depends on extraordinary individuals when even its greatest protector must die? The poem begins with the...
