zak_martell's Reviews (277)

I wish more people read this book and saw the world with this mindset.
Too many people have never been asked this important question and I’m sorry for them.

I read the book having had it recommended to me. I don’t remember who recommended it to me or why.

I was interested to mine it for skills transferable to making TTRPGs and with that in mind I found plenty, although that is obviously not the intended purpose of the book.

The extreme technical detail will put some people off.
I greatly enjoyed the depth with which the author explored the history of the town and the inhabitants.

The way the author took similar examples from survivors of other disasters and storms was unique and a compelling way of keeping the drama without fictionalising events.

An interesting dive into the meanings and symbolism of stories.

An interesting dive into the meanings and symbolism of stories.

Fascinating thoughts. I’ll definitely look out some more of their books on the subject and probably revisit this one.

No fluff, no nonsense. This book is exactly what it says on the tin. All told through Ryan Holiday’s signature concise and simple stile.

The near constant mention of western science doing something or other from colonial… blah, blah, got a bit grating.
And the slight over idealisation of native communities and cultures was a bit much.

In truth, without the introduction by Gabor Mate I doubt I’d have continued to the end. And that would have been a shame because this is a nice little book, with a good heart, and interesting science told very well.

This was a really nice way of integrating Stoicism into my life.

Would recommend to anyone.

I appreciate how similar the stories are in length.
They all have a wonderful atmosphere about them which is exactly what you want from an anthology like this.

Some were better than others, but all were worth the read.