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September 5, 2020
Gaps Made Understanding Difficult
I like the idea of having summary book as there is so much nonfiction published today. I would love to be able to read a decent summary book to give me an idea of the main topics of trending nonfiction books so I can determine if I want to read the original and keep the summary on hand as I read the actual book. However, I have yet to find a truly good summary; I have not found it with this publisher, either. This particular book does a very poor job summarizing. A good summary has to remain faithful to the original book and also make coherent sense within itself. In other words, it can't cut out too many words and concepts, or else the book won’t flow or make sense. Causation and conclusions from the original may not, therefore, be understood in a summary. Unfortunately, that is the case here. The summary itself had no internal logic, and it left out too much in places so that I wasn't sure how the original book got from one idea to the next or came to certain conclusions. What the author calls trivia questions in the back is not trivia at all; they are more like simply defining some early terms in the book. Similarly most discussion questions aren't really formulated as if they would spark discussion. Rather, they also look at simple definitions and factoids (like when the word “race” was first used). All in all, I found this to be a very disappointing summary. Still on the lookout for someone who can write a decent summary of popular, trending non-fiction books.
I like the idea of having summary book as there is so much nonfiction published today. I would love to be able to read a decent summary book to give me an idea of the main topics of trending nonfiction books so I can determine if I want to read the original and keep the summary on hand as I read the actual book. However, I have yet to find a truly good summary; I have not found it with this publisher, either. This particular book does a very poor job summarizing. A good summary has to remain faithful to the original book and also make coherent sense within itself. In other words, it can't cut out too many words and concepts, or else the book won’t flow or make sense. Causation and conclusions from the original may not, therefore, be understood in a summary. Unfortunately, that is the case here. The summary itself had no internal logic, and it left out too much in places so that I wasn't sure how the original book got from one idea to the next or came to certain conclusions. What the author calls trivia questions in the back is not trivia at all; they are more like simply defining some early terms in the book. Similarly most discussion questions aren't really formulated as if they would spark discussion. Rather, they also look at simple definitions and factoids (like when the word “race” was first used). All in all, I found this to be a very disappointing summary. Still on the lookout for someone who can write a decent summary of popular, trending non-fiction books.
August 27, 2020
This book not only has a chapter by chapter summary of the popular book by Ibram X. Kendi, but also includes trivia questions and discussion questions based around the book's topics. As the original book is very heavy on the author's own experience of racism and a historical look at it, a summary book like this distills the topics down to their essentials so that if you decide to read the original book, you will be better able to grasp what the author is going for.
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