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The ideas were great, and the pseudophilosophy was fun. Actually I found myself bored in the action sequences that seemed to jar with the more contemplative nature of the rest of the book.

I tried but did not crack the PM interview. This book was not nearly as useful as cracking the coding interview. There is useful info about the processes in different interviews, but I found the shorter strategies found in Decode and Conquer to be more useful.

The sum was less than the parts. A lot of great information about the culture of Exxon, it’s two most prominent CEO’s Raymond and Tillerson, and a lot of great tidbits about how the oil industry worked. I actually finished the book with a higher (but still negative) opinion of Exxon than when I started. Exxon seems to be the company version of a crotchety old grandpa: he says what he thinks, does a few things that are not at all appropriate in today’s society, but wins every family game of scrabble and rubs it in afterwards. ...

It was probably competent, but I didn’t enjoy it. Lots of politics, it felt too much like an allegory of American politics in the 21st century. One thing I enjoyed about Lost Stars was that it made no attempt to interact with the films, and instead took a Rosencrantz and Guildenstern approach to the canon. I assume Bloodline had to operate within clear boundaries of what could and could not be written about, and suffered for it. For all of Disney’s billions, it seems like nobody has taken the time to establish a universe with politics and economies that make sense.

As a visa officer in Riyadh after 9/11, I figured this book was required reading. (And it was handed out in our consular training course) But from the analysis related to my line of work, I found it to be surface level, and offered very little strategic thinking into the fixes necessary to enhance security.

As it was number two in the series, I hoped for some more interesting or advanced content. I was disappointed. Texts a still boring, essentially useless, and the explanations are not very helpful.

I used it for 朗读 practice. Texts are boring, there is not much content, and the level is definitely not advanced. Don’t waste your money.

官僚主义造成的作品。作者曾经在政府工作这个事实很明显。我觉得情节不是世界上最好的，不过我特别享受塑造的角色。 总的来说，很好玩儿。

I felt cheated, every time I started to enjoy a story, it would stop and I would be forced to read something else, by the time I got to cavendish part two, I lost motivation to continue. Not that I had time to, anyways, as Chinese studies left no time for English reading.I hoped that if I switched to Chinese I could filter out the annoying linguistic style and tone. But the translation surprisingly kept the tone of the original, only adding copious footnotes to explain obscure culture references that the chinese audience would have little way to decipher. By the time I made it to the end of the recursive equation, I had forgotten all but the sketchiest outlines of the previous mini-stories read 9 months ago in a different language. ...

跟电影相比，肯定好多了。但是这个翻译有很多缺点，所以我了解中国人之所以给这本书较低的评价。