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by GuiA 4569 days ago
They're not worth it. You should spend the time that it would take you to read this book doing some high yield activity instead, like trading stocks or growth hacking your startup. Anything less than that just isn't worth the trouble.
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zalew 4569 days ago
I don't give a shit about the things you mentioned and I read books and long forms every day, so get off your high horse.
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ars_technician 4569 days ago
Your sarcasm implies that he doesn't want to put effort into reading what appears to be a bad book because it doesn't have a return, which is a crappy assumption.

People have a limited amount of time, and there are far more good books than any one person could read, let alone bad books.

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GuiA 4569 days ago
At least one person who is not the author seems to have liked this book, so I challenge the assumption that it "appears to be a bad book".

And... it's a book, dude. You can check it out from the library or buy it used for ten bucks and stop reading it if you don't like it; that's not going to ruin your life. If you have enough time to reply to my dumb comments on HN, you must certainly have the time to start reading the book for 30 minutes and decide if it's worth continuing or not :)

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ars_technician 4569 days ago
>At least one person who is not the author seems to have liked this book, so I challenge the assumption that it "appears to be a bad book".

Do you know why user reviews exist?

>If you have enough time to reply to my dumb comments on HN, you must certainly have the time to start reading the book for 30 minutes and decide if it's worth continuing or not :)

That would be valid if it were me considering reading the book and if it took me 30 minutes to reply to the comment.

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