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2022: A rambly and ranty account of a true story that I really enjoyed.
As a logistics person, I ate this up! Andrés goes into a lot of detail about how he and his team were able to pull off a really insane task in an extremely challenging time. Here's the deal tho....I get that Andrés needed to hit a certain number of pages in order to meet his book deadline, but there is absolutely no new information that is added in the last 100 pages of the book. It's just repeating info and stories that he's already told.
This book ends up getting super ranty. I understand that Andrés wanted to impress upon everyone that FEMA wasn't as great at providing aid as their marketing would lead you to believe. I GET IT. And after the first 100 pages, you will too. The book also loses major points for quoting Trump so many times. It was very tiresome and I really did not enjoy having his voice in my head again. Could this book have been a well researched Buzzfeed article and I still would have taken away the same info? Absolutely yes.
On another note, Andrés makes SEVERAL Hunger Games references (like good ones, like he actually read the whole series back to front) and they made me laugh out loud every time. They also totally pulled me out of the narrative and it was disorienting, but I also loved it.
Basically, World Central Kitchen is already high on my list of companies I'd love to work for someday, and this book just made it skyrocket to the top.
As a logistics person, I ate this up! Andrés goes into a lot of detail about how he and his team were able to pull off a really insane task in an extremely challenging time. Here's the deal tho....I get that Andrés needed to hit a certain number of pages in order to meet his book deadline, but there is absolutely no new information that is added in the last 100 pages of the book. It's just repeating info and stories that he's already told.
This book ends up getting super ranty. I understand that Andrés wanted to impress upon everyone that FEMA wasn't as great at providing aid as their marketing would lead you to believe. I GET IT. And after the first 100 pages, you will too. The book also loses major points for quoting Trump so many times. It was very tiresome and I really did not enjoy having his voice in my head again. Could this book have been a well researched Buzzfeed article and I still would have taken away the same info? Absolutely yes.
On another note, Andrés makes SEVERAL Hunger Games references (like good ones, like he actually read the whole series back to front) and they made me laugh out loud every time. They also totally pulled me out of the narrative and it was disorienting, but I also loved it.
Basically, World Central Kitchen is already high on my list of companies I'd love to work for someday, and this book just made it skyrocket to the top.