BATB score: 1/10 goodness and he's back True FAD. Got this book in February 2018; all of its content is irrelevant by March 2018. Way too slow to predict the speed of resignation and expulsion of Trump’s administration. Best for: an Instagram post and some likes. Uneventful.

BATB score: 1.25/10 Japanese authors are so wordy. Anecdotes are so minute. Sentence structure are so dull. This book consist of 85% water down the drain, 10% potential something but really nothing, 5% real gist. The concept of 'ikigai' or the reason to get up in the morning is definitely there but the process how to get to your 'ikigai'... honestly, we would never know. Best for: the cover and the summarised content on the back P.S. How big should my sample size be (Marie Ko

BATB score: 1.4/10 there was no magic Dear Rory Sutherland 'Alchemy', The only thing that saved this book is every time you refer to your best friends' work: Richard Thaler 'Misbehaving' and Dan Ariely 'The Upside of Irrationality'. To be kind, there's definitely something good in there but its poorly represented and viciously repeated in scattered thoughts that it's even difficult for me to grasp any thoughtful farts. Best for: readers who have read his best friends' work. R

BATB score: 1/10 (that 1 point is for the walrus and the dodo on its cover) You can not take wikipedia's content and publish them as your book! Dictionary - {what this book is} - Encyclopedia Content too long to be an adequate dictionary but too short to be an in-depth encyclopedia; this book gives you nothing but an alphabetically arranged wikipedia topics. How do you even read this dictopedia? Random page, toilet read? #Dictopedia #CopyrightBATB Best as: a book-end for your

BATB score: 1/10 - it's not you, it's me Dear Yuval Noah Harari, our relationship has become more effort than you are worth. 💔 I know your books are being praised, loved, and adored by many. I tried. I did try (reading 120 out of 500 pages) to make it work. But I don't know what your book wants from me or what you're trying to tell me. It's all over the place my love. 🥺 Best to: break up now so we only have good memories Best: this isn't easy but neither is your book Best f

BATB Score: 1/10 The book cover is misleading #fakenews You kind of expect Malcolm's behavioral economics and techniques to talk to strangers when it's more of documentary anecdotes on how we don't know the people around us. #strangersassemble Best for: those who spark joy from the CIA fooled, the pedophile getting lucky, the innocent arrested, and just on and on case studies. Best as: a Netflix 45 minutes documentary #TBC #bookstagram Best to: watch the Netflix documentary i

BATB score: 1.7/10 👎 Best to: it was 71 things that doesn't really matter and that were just quick thought FYI. ie. that the tallest people are Dutch, that chicken is the most economical poultry, that Tokyo is the biggest megacity with 37.5 million population, that Italians are drinking less wine and more beer, or that the happiest country is Finland. Best for: I bet Vaclav Smil is one brilliant mind to deserve the respect of Bill Gates; but this book was not one of his resp

BATB score: 1/10 🫠 You either love Gary Vaynerchuk or hate him completely - swipe left Best to: the book is dead, it was written in 2018 on social media management techniques and it died a tragic death immediately after in 2018; it's like that annoying uncle who believes he cracked the social media algorithm and calls himself an influencer - urgh it's so bad. BATB lingering thought: there is actually one thing that I agree with the book; the importance of having a strong and

BATB score: 1/10 It’s a bad mystery book about a ‘Virgin Mary birth’, a bad rom-com about 40s love, a bad and slow novel in general. Urgh meh. Best to: the book tried to link to two real life incidents -1955 virgin mother and 1957 Lewisham train crash; or were you trying to be a really bad historical book? Best as: nothing really, oh the book cover was of a nice design - wait a minute, the title has nothing to do with the book! Best for: nobody, just skip it Best quote: “Neve

BATB score: 1/10 🔪 🩸 💀 “Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone” and I will be that Someone who will kill Benjamin Stevenson for all the time I’ve wasted trying to give this book a chance; I can not read another page more Best as: if you can’t captivate the readers within the first 100 pages of your book, I don’t think it’s a good book Best to: burn it; in all due respect, trying to read this book can actually make you hate reading as a hobby Best for: no one - just look

BATB score: 1/10 💔 Best to: I don’t want to read another page of this book. I can not read any more. BATB death page 45/243 🏴‍☠️ Best as: Happiness = Happiness Set Point (Meditation, Cognitive Therapy, Prozac) + Living Conditions (External Forces 70K USD/Year) + Voluntary Activities (Progress Principle [something to strive for], Immediate Feedback, Connection to Others); thank you Jeffrey Marr for the cartoon summary of this book - true life saver 🛟 Best for: go to the boo

BATB score: 1/10 🤬 omg shut up Best to: mister invincible, mister go fight win, just go away Best for: this work hard play harder mentality is so yesterday BATB linger thought: this book would be exponentially better if Arnold Schwarzenegger talk truthfully about his affair, his failures as Governor of California, his whatever! just with more sincerity and humility; Arnold and David Goggins can be friends Best as: the book’s narration sounds like that annoying uncle at famil

BATB score: 1/10 💔 the book title has nothing to do with anything in the book Best as: Busy Philipps diary written for Busy Philipps; no tangible key takeaway just an FYI recollection of things that happened from teen pregnancy, to actress auditioning, to instagram stories, to Trump - this book does not change lives Best for: Busy Philipps and nobody else Best to: what did you want your readers to takeaway from this book, could have been a really good start before writing th

*disastrous books that have been wasting my time* BATB score: 1/10 😡 Best burn: well, if you are just going to discuss the frequently asked questions without actually answering them, please go away. Best to: keep the conversation in podcast format, unlike book readers, podcast listeners are more forgiving Best as: the book cover is cute 🦖 🦕 Best for: nobody, not intellectual stimulating, a waste of money and time

*disastrous books that have been wasting my time* BATB score: 1/10 😤 Best burn: if you assign a high school student to write a book on K-beauty (who, what, when, where, why, how, thoughts), you will get this book. Meet expectations. Best as: if you want to know what is botox Best to: know that Elise Hu, the author, is not the lady on the book cover Best for: nobody, not intellectual stimulating, a waste of money, a waste of time

BATB score: 1/10 😤 *reader discretion advised* just because you are someone sorta famous doesn’t mean your life is worthy of a book Best as: book title “Things I Should Have Said” excuse me, correction! “Things Not Worth Saying At All” clickbait max Best for: Jamie Lynn Spears, you wrote this book for yourself Best to: child tv star, teenage pregnancy, high school sweetheart break-up, new husband, young motherhood, daughter drowning accident, sister rivalry, back to work; fi

BATB score: 1/10 😤 Best to: Hawkeye, you are an actor and not an author; writing is not a good career path for you; your writing style is annoying Best as: just watch the 60-seconds tiktok video on Jeremy Renner’s snowplow incident; yes, he almost died, yes, he is okay now, yes, he is grateful Best for: you mentioned on page 1 that you didn’t want to write this book, yeah, you shouldn’t BATB lingering thought: aiyah, another celebrity writing a book to squeeze out some passi

BATB score: 1/10 🙄 a complete waste of money and time Best as: the minute by minute recollection of the murder of four University of Idaho students back in November 2022 Best for: unnecessary to read unless you are super invested or related to this particular murder some way some how Best to: aiyah, author James Patterson, you published this book just in time for Bryan Kohberger sentencing July 23 2025 - verdict was four consecutive life sentences without parole; aiyah, you