Jason's Reading (rated bad)

The prose was fairly good. The story was somewhat interesting, and it did grow on me over time. But my friend described it best when he said that it feels like a Hallmark movie. Everything falls into place too neatly, the characters are rather shallow, and the whole underlying premise feels a bit ridiculous. …

I was pretty disappointed by this book. It’s a collection of very short essays – only a few pages each on my little Kindle screen – that felt repetitive and lacked substance. Maybe I just wasn’t in the right frame of mind to read Inside Minimalism, but I didn’t enjoy it.

(Disclaimer: I didn’t finish this book.) The first few chapters of this book were fun, interesting explorations of the way we deal with human-nature conflicts. However, I started losing interest as Roach shifted from discussing how we deal with these conflicts to merely writing about their occurrence. Around the same time, her writing style, although initially enjoyable, began to wear on me – a few jokes are funny, but after too many, the humor feels forced. Perhaps Fuzz would be better enjoyed by reading a chapter here and there over several weeks.