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Everything That Remains: A Memoir by The Minimalists
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Update #1: 20 pages in and I'm put off by what a jerk Joshua/"Millie" is as a narrator. Really negative and scornful towards people. We haven't even started on the minimalism and he's already a self-righteous prick. Bleh.
Also, flipping back constantly to the end of the book to read his co-writer's (mostly irrelevant) comments is ridiculous. Footnotes would have been so much more convenient than endnotes.
Update #2:DNF at 40%: gave up on page 80 when it became a preachy, shitty dialogue-only rant about his ex girlfriend. This was after the chapter that was just a transcript of a TV interview and verbatim text from the website of other minimalists. And after the chapter about what a great writer he is.
The writing in this is awful, it's all long, manufactured conversations as exposition, and tons of padding. There's barely any minimalist theory or practical advice here, just a long memoir about rich white dudes who -- I wish I was joking -- spend a page gushing about how life changing FIGHT CLUB was for them.
Thought I could stick this little book out to the finish, but life is too short.
Also, flipping back constantly to the end of the book to read his co-writer's (mostly irrelevant) comments is ridiculous. Footnotes would have been so much more convenient than endnotes.
Update #2:DNF at 40%: gave up on page 80 when it became a preachy, shitty dialogue-only rant about his ex girlfriend. This was after the chapter that was just a transcript of a TV interview and verbatim text from the website of other minimalists. And after the chapter about what a great writer he is.
The writing in this is awful, it's all long, manufactured conversations as exposition, and tons of padding. There's barely any minimalist theory or practical advice here, just a long memoir about rich white dudes who -- I wish I was joking -- spend a page gushing about how life changing FIGHT CLUB was for them.
Thought I could stick this little book out to the finish, but life is too short.
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The writing was insanely bad. I've often thought about how it used to be an honor of sorts, an accomplishment to be published. These days everybody thinks they're a writer. I like the message but damn he needs some serious editing
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Thanks for saving me the wasted effort of reading this. The idea is intriguing but the execution sounds like a disaster. How did this get published?
I listened on audiobook, but his comments about Fight Club was a quote (about material goods) from a book by that name. It was that quote that was life changing.
