BATB score: 2.69/10 Like serious.. WTF. Urgh. Don't judge a book by its cover. #GoneWrong. This book's cover sure looks attractive but its content sure is demotivating. The first part of the book discusses the different types of seducers. Naming convention was not intuitive and definitions were not MECE. It was BAD. Skip it completely. The second part of the book talks about the 24 SNAKE techniques to seduce your target. Tedious and fishy baloney! Let me list some out for you

BATB score: 2.4/10 Dear middle-aged, high-achieving, stressed-out women #yesyou, this 1-2-3 step workbook may overwhelm you even more. You know that one friend that kept bragging about herself and you keep a friendly smile but deeply you want to kick her in the face? This book is her. 5 Pillars, 5-Do's 5-Don't, 7 Focus Areas, 7 Days 24 Hours #byeworld #icannotanymore Best to: skip to the signpost exercises of each chapter and complete them. Your legacy, growth friends, and li

BATB score: 2.34/10 Extremely difficult to finish cover-to-cover. 2 years+ of owning this book, trying to give it a 2nd, 3rd, 4th ready-set-read; enough is enough. Best for: "Walk Away" - Dia Frampton to sing the chorus for this book Best as: you better run away, run away, run away~ Best to: no matter what you say, what you say, what you say~ Note: Go read other behavioural economic books instead -check out the freakonomics series or Dan Ariely combos

BATB score: 2/10 Panda eats shoots and leaves. 🐼🌿🏳️‍🌈 Panda eats, shoots and leaves. 🐼🔫🏴‍☠️ Best for: grammar Nazis; so is it ** Jesus' or Jesus's ** - if this bothers you then, congratulations! You are a grammar Nazi! Best to: skip it. the cover is tempting but the content is meh. An elementary grammar book is more concise and content. #Punctuations101 Best as: Let's eat Panda. 🧟‍♂️🍴🐼 Let's eat, Panda. 🙋‍♂️🙌🐼 Let's eat Panda's. 🙋‍♂️🙌🐼🍀 Our English teachers w

BATB score: 2.1 / 10 😵 It's not you, it's me. I surrender. 🏳️ I really CAN NOT do Yuval Noah Harari. Lion King hakuna matata lifestyle, the Truman show CCTV, fake news of wine and bread, and more odd ball anecdotes. Well thought through but presented in abrupt concepts - imagine a Professor taking forever to build up to the point, taps the point a bit, *bell rings*, that's all - the end. #whaaa Best to: you either love Yuval Noah Harari or you don't #yuvalnoahharari Best as

BATB score: 2.7/10 #flop Recommended by the COO of an orange e-commerce platform as a worthy read during covid lockdown masked in a self-PR Linkedin wall post #catchmygoodside Unfortunately, only chapters 1 and 7 were interesting reads; the rest were meh. Best to: know that the CUE, the ROUTINE, and the REWARD is all that a habit is made of and all that this book is based of. Best for: definitely a number of good anecdotes and subject matter - but reading the book's summary w

BATB score: 2/10 for the 200/570 pages that I've read before giving up completely #Isurrender 🏳️ Too detailed for a 'short history' which can be 'even shorter' by half at least. Too many names and too many 'this happened, then that happened, but then there's that, and now it's this'. I am so sorry. I can not. Best as: good night story that will definitely put you to sleep or confuse you to coma Best to: it's okay, just skip it. Best for: I believe Yuval Noah and Bill Bryson

BATB score: 2/10 🙄 I would have to say that your sentence structure and narration is a little bit off. It’s like you tried to cover the history and accomplishments of a person per chapter concisely but yet the part you chose to bold wasn’t making the point you intended. Best to: skip it in its entirety; turn a blind eye and just walk the other way. Best as: why was this book part of a reading list for the ‘innovation’ module from a distinguished MBA curriculum in the UK agai

BATB score: 2/10 💔 1 point for Love and 1 point for Work Best to: know that Marcus Buckingham is best with public speakings, podcasts, and youtube shorts - as for his book... it's wishy washy and a bit all over the place 🌊 BATB best effort in summarizing this book: (1) we are all uniquely weird #WYRD (2) find what you love to do #redthreads by asking yourself when was the last time you lost track of time or was singled out for praise (3) aim to get to work on what you love

BATB score: 2/10 😒 Mariana Mazzucato, my friend, please take a chill pill; all the beautiful concepts no real world practical next steps Best for: my friend, you are saying so many things that you are not saying anything at all Best to: my friend, there were some pages that include the good stuff, how about we re-write this my friend to something more friendly? Best as: my friend, you are saying a lot of thing about the same thing just over and over again; my friend, you are

BATB score: 2/10 🙈 It’s like Murakami is trying to cash out the very last few squeezes of his writing career. And what does this book title even mean?!? Best as: a buy-bait for Murakami readers; a collection piece and evidence for you to rightfully claim that you have read most of Murakami’s works; 2020s Murakami work that demonstrates how he no longer is the hyped author Best to: okay one thing that is interesting is I never thought that Murakami would be able to write shor

BATB score: 2/10 💔 please allow me to kill you with kindness Best to: the thing is, you had every right and all the merits to write your previous book “In Order to Live” [BATB score: 8/10] in sharing your personal account of life of and escape from North Korea; but then, you have low to zero merits to write this book “While Time Remains” in analyzing American culture and events from a point of view of an immigrant / new joiner Best as: or is this your academic thesis? Best f

BATB score: 2/10 🙏🏻 oiiii such a waste of brain cells Best to: you know that one uncle who went solo travelling around the world with his retirement money, then came back to every family gathering and could not shut up about it? yeah, Pico Iyer is that uncle. Best as: "The struggle of your life is your paradise." - my struggle right now is uncle's travel diary BATB lingering thought: better to watch travel vlogs on YouTube; okay, thank you uncle for reminding all of us to t

BATB score: 2/10🧃 not all famous actors/actresses can be a worthwhile author - extremely non-captivating Best as: anger-inducing book due to 29 chapters of the same content over and over again; extremely monotone with the most boring, insignificant anecdotal stories that do nothing for the readers BATB lingering thought: so when you write a memoir at least it should be in chronological order from childhood to yesterday, include a few unseen pictures - photo book stuff, have

BATB score: 2/10 🙄 i don’t like this book, i don’t like it at all; but can I be kind? can I be nice? can I be humble? and glass half full? try my best to see the good in the junk, the genuine intentions and the kind words of advice that McCormack sincerely wants to leave behind? no, I can not. 🫠 Best to: it’s a book written by an uncle telling you to do 1-2-3, then 4-5-6, and then 7-8-9 to be successful; legit advices just too many overloading, redundant, mundane tips and t

BATB score: 2/10 💥 *reader discretion advised* mean girls mode activated - this book is a waste of time 🙄 Best to: okie I acknowledge the good intentions, kudos to Chris Anderson for starting TEDTalk / TEDx and his generosity for knowledge worth sharing; the book is trying to share efforts, tips, techniques and inspire how one can be more generous yet this 200+ pages book would have better been a 18-minutes TEDTalk Best as: that’s why all philanthropic non-profit organizati

BATB score: 2/10 😡 omg shut up already! you know that one old leadership who kept talking, mentioning hallow frameworks, shouting some tacky quotes “differentiate or die”, dumping more business terminology and acronyms where other words would have been sufficient, feeling like he is the smartest person in the room, but it’s only shit coins he’s holding on to? Best to: a complete leadership playbook with all the frameworks you can reference to - enough for a lifetime, good fo

BATB score: 2/10 🙈 (I am sorry) this book was a waste of time - watery, no meat, no character love, no climax, nothing really, just redundant words. Best as: a fictional diary of a fictional grandmother going to Ibiza for the first time > scuba diving, old dusty Airbnb, new neighbors, poker at the casino, protecting the environment, some magic water, fortune telling, and the multiverse BATB lingering thought: the 80~ chapter breakdown is ADHD weird Best for: Matt Haig, pleas

BATB score: 2/10 🔪🔥 Gregg Olsen 2024 - spent 9 months trying to solve a “murder” of an Amish Wife and son; an “incident” that happened back in 1977! Best as: why this dusty old case where not only the victims are dead, but the suspects and witnesses are also either dead or very old to remember what happened 40+ years ago - whyyyyy Best to: 400 pages of 9 months documenting and speaking with all the suspects and witnesses; trying to jigsaw puzzle and solve the case Best for:

BATB Score: 2/10 why is this book so boring 🥱 Best as: this book discusses a single premise that every second of ours and everybody else’s micro decisions makes us who we are today Best to: that even if we turn back time and recount every decisions, we can not engineer to be the same person BATB lingering thought: butterfly effect: the notion that a butterfly flapping its wings in Brazil could trigger a tornado in Texas Best for: “no man ever steps in the same river twice; f