BATB score: 3/10 Spoiler Alert: Thursdays in the morning Best to: Difficult to read. 131 ADHD thoughts of a freakonomics; questioning the world and trying to answer them with supportive but inconclusive economics Best for: those who has read Think Like a Freak and/or any sapiosexual of the freakonomics authors

BATB score: 3/10 Damn. Steven Hawking’s brain capability redefines all average joe to shame. A reminder to look at the star~ look how they shine for you~ #aliens Difficult to follow. Best for: Star-gazers. Seekers of where do we come from and where are we going. Wait, who are we?

BATB score: 3.33/10 It may be more relatable if you are in your 2/3 life crisis. Interview accounts of people who look fine on the outside who may not necessarily be doing fine on the inside. The book has high hopes that readers of other people's struggles and worse problems, somehow will make you feel better about your situation. A career-driven C-level person who got this far to get fired. An independent person who was happy being alone but realize that he/she would die alo

BATB score: 3.21/10 Best to: Your word choices and sentence structure annoys me. Book tries too hard to be intellectual but book's content is crap. Book tries to be all-knowing but book's example cases are poor. Book tries to introduce modules but book's logic is flawed. (Replace "Book" with "You" and "Your" for intensified drama) Best for: Geoffrey A. Moore to re-write this book. Best as: a required read for a VC book club with everyone nice enough to complement on minuscule

BATB score: 3.5/10 RIP Twitter Twitter CEOs: Jack Dorsey -> Evan Williams -> Dick Costolo -> Jack Dorsey (again) Best friends, lots of alcohol on a boat, ego-power-play, frenemies, secret meetings, Bill Campbell, revenge, Oprah, and fame. Typical start-up storyline #tbh Best to: find out about Twitter founders' conflicts via some online 10-minute-read bullet-point snippets Best for: nonfiction written in a fiction screenplay; honestly how did Nick Bilton know so much #CCTV? B

BATB score: 3.14/10 Dear Bill Gates, this recommended book of yours resembles more of a doctorate research paper in conditional probability and flawed predictions. 🧐 Best for: anyone pursuing a PhD in Probability Theory Best as: it's a research paper with over 450-page explanation on Bayes' Theorem about prediction and probability split into 13 life examples/chapters. Best to: you know how some things you've learnt at school does not make any difference in your life? Before

BATB score: 3.33/10 PSA: The Secret disciples, please turn away. Spoiler alert: skeptic review below. The original self-help book in its perfect lame definition: one abstract concept "positive thoughts, positive life" repeated redundantly throughout the book. Best to: know that The Secret is no longer a secret - it's basically the concept of good karma; good thoughts, good deeds, good life. Best as: yet another self-help book where you puke rainbows; sure, I get it, mind-powe

BATB score: 3.33 / 10 The book's first 3 chapters were GOLD 🏆 and it all just went downhill from there ⚓️ . The key is "fixed vs growth mindset" yet redundantly explained with this-and-that anecdotes. Best to: Yes, I get it: pick growth > fixed mindset. I got it since your first chapter. Aha. Aha. Best for: Asians, who were spanked by their Asian parents to be perfect: A+, King Classroom, 4.00GPA, Ivy League, scholarship, lawyers/doctors/pilot - everything else is a disgrace

BATB score: 3.14/10 yes, Ray Dalio, 18 billion USD net worth, richest hedge fund firm wrote, wrote this #Principles #RayDalio #bookstagram yes, Bill Gates recommends this #BillGates #GateNotes BUT NO, don't bother. It's like reading a bullet point with sub-bullet points with sub-sub-bullet points on and on. The bullet points are redundant and repetitive. A very torturing (book?) NASA manual to read. #DontLetAnyOneTellYouOtherwise Best for: the some good parts to be re-written

BATB score: 3.33/10 💔 Third time, third book was not the charm. Khaled, this wasn't your best. We know your past masterpieces; we know you can do better. I am sorry to say you are no longer in the running to be mister all-stars novelist. Best as: a bummer performance dropped head first, so much communal anticipation and expectation left with broken hearts Best to: you must read 'The Kite Runner' and 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' by Khaled Hosseini in this lifetime; you must. Be

BATB score: 3/10 🤦‍♀️ the book lives in 2006 (as per its published year) - blaming and slapping myself for picking such a book Best for: exceptionally wordy superficially covering heavy topics like price discrimination, taxation on the marginal, globalization, global warming, and China's strides Best to: skip this book. Tim Harford's way of writing sounds like that uncle (we all have) that obviously is trying to make a very educated point but ends up making numerous unrelate

BATB score: 3.5/10 🥵 *Reader Discretion Advised* a thick ass excruciatingly detailed, boring and complex explanation of pre-Immelt, Immelt's 16 years as CEO of General Electrics, and post-Immelt - and every single damn thing that happened in between #painful #JeffImmelt I gave up at page 80/312. Best to: this book reminds you of the agony and discomfort of going MBA case discussions - so what has the CEO done wrong that led to the fall of General Electrics throughout his 16

BATB score: 3.45/10 🙄 By far the most confusing Murakami novels I have read; I comprehended like 34.5% of what Murakami is trying to communicate Best to: it's okay you can skip this one. I had to google "hard boiled wonderland and the end of the world explained" Best for: Murakami diehard fanclub devotee who has read at least >2 Murakami books prior to considering this book. His 'two books in one book' presented in alternating chapters back and forth signature written is the

BATB score: 3/10 🙊🗣🙉 *Reader discretion advised* Daniel Kahneman devotees, you are not going to like what I am about to say... Best to: Kahneman himself wrote in his book's introduction that it is advisable to skip part 3 & 4 of this 6-part book. How odd is that? What kind of good author writes a book that is so difficult to digest, too technical and too watery (not conveying any impactful learnings relative to the number of pages) and admittedly recommends readers to skip

BATB score: 3/10 💔 Written in 1984 and made into a movie in 1988 (7.3/10 IMDb) - probably hyped up as early times erotic novel/films Best as: other than the polygamous coitus chapters, the rest of the book may put you to sleep 💤 Best for: literature enthusiasts on classic writing styles and novelist's reflection of life then and there; Milan Kundera's freshness includes love affairs, the Soviet, oppression to conformity, living in exile, and (modern days relatable) so what'

BATB score: 3/10 😒 This book incorporates 28 interview with 28 global top leaders on their business strategic thoughts with Covid19. Interviews were conducted in 2020 so most leaders were still exceptionally optimistic. Best as: this book is like Where is Waldo? but Where is the point? kinda twist; mostly every interview has one key kicker comment that’s quotable, the rest is shit Best to: just read the last chapter (chapter 29 - last 9 pages) of the book at the bookstore; t

BATB score: 3/10 😡 *and this score is me being nice; unpopular book review alert* redundancy at it's best, he said, she said, same shit Best to: this book is like a consultant; thoroughly researched (did their homework), professionally written/presented (tactful), saying all the right things, but OMG they're just quotes, nice concepts, impractical, fake, and fluffy OK?! Best for: plenty of instagramable quotes - urgh, it's so fake, I can not. Honestly, I believe I tackle my

BATB score: 3/10 🐢 only business schools and leadership programs memorizes strategic principles eg. OGSM (objectives, goals, strategy, and measure statement) Best to: P&G is such a Gen X success story; Gen Z 'start-ups, ventures, hustles' can not really benefit from this book's do's and don't's Best for: CEOs of global FMCG/CPG conglomerates esp when you are in charge of setting business strategies from merger and acquisition deals, supplier negotiations, consumer-product in

BATB score: 3/10 💩 this book is.. bad... I wanted to kill myself Best to: extremely difficult to read and follow through; at times, talking about some insightful species, then trying to link those species learnings to modern day implications, and then closing each chapter with 'corrective lens' key takeaways that had nothing to do with what was discussed in the chapter Best for: try to finish this book without falling asleep, I challenge you! Best as: there are good bits in

BATB score: 3/10 ⌛️ yep, they both died at the end Best to: a great plot line about how you get this death day alert on the day you will die so that you could make the best use of <24 hours that you have; about reminiscing, regretting, and trying to fully max out the <24 hours that you have Best for: enthusiast of very slow novels 😴 Best as: actually, if Netflix makes a movie out of this and just touch on the futuristic ideas and social behaviours of death-cast calls, the La