by Aseem Gupta | May 23, 2022 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Jonas Jonasson’s The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden begins with one of the least powerful people imaginable and eventually places her in the middle of a crisis involving an atomic bomb, the Swedish king, the Swedish prime minister, Mossad and the Chinese...
by Aseem Gupta | May 10, 2022 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Jonas Jonasson did not originally intend to send Allan Karlsson on another adventure. His first Hundred-Year-Old Man novel had used Allan’s improbable life to wander through twentieth-century history, placing an apolitical Swedish explosives expert beside dictators,...
by Aseem Gupta | Apr 27, 2022 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Jonas Jonasson begins The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared with what should be an ending. Allan Karlsson is one hundred years old, living in an old people’s home, and expected to spend his birthday being ceremonially celebrated by...
by Aseem Gupta | Apr 14, 2022 | Book Summaries and Analysis
History usually reaches us after uncertainty has disappeared. D-Day succeeded, John F. Kennedy was assassinated, Apollo 11 returned safely from the Moon, Britain never fought the Soviet Union in a nuclear war, and Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino Jr. was killed moments after...
by Aseem Gupta | Mar 31, 2022 | Book Summaries and Analysis
David Deida’s The Way of the Superior Man is easy to misclassify. Its chapter titles, blunt instructions, sexual language, and repeated contrasts between masculine and feminine behavior can make it look like a manual for becoming more dominant, more attractive to...
by Aseem Gupta | Mar 19, 2022 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Corey Wayne’s How to Be a 3% Man, Winning the Heart of the Woman of Your Dreams is often described as a dating book for men, but that description captures only part of what Wayne is trying to build. Beginning with his own failures in dating and relationships, he...
