Alex

Even being as short as it is, it feels incredibly repetitive, to the point that while reading it I could've sworn I had already gone over a certain paragraph or passage. I thought it was a little corny and cheesy in making us think that we pretty much can accomplish anything we want as long as we think about it enough. 
It failed to inspire me. 
Very little to take from it, just some ideas about the drive one needs to have to get up and do something.

Divertida e interminable aventura que considero se debe leer al menos una vez en la vida. 
Me pareció uno de esos clásicos que definitivamente me mostraron porqué se tienen en dicha categoría. Durante este libro pude sentir un sinfin de emociones, desde felicidad y carcajas, hasta tristeza y enojo. Cada aventura representó un viaje en el que todo era posible. 

Hay un poco de Don Quijote en todos nosotros. O considero que debería haberlo. Me despertó una nueva visión y perspectiva del mundo, alentándome a no verlo todo tan serio y no tomar las cosas de forma personal.
El único pero que le pondría es a la edición que leí, ya que al ser un libro tan antiguo, el vocabulario utilizado no siempre es el más entendible, lo que lleva a tomar ciertas pausas en la historia para comprender lo leído, que la hacen un poco menos placentera.

Como con la mayoría de libros de filosofía, no se está de acuerdo con todos los preceptos, ideas y pensamientos abarcados en él. Sin embargo hay puntos con los que comulgo y que sería interesante seguir explorando.
Por momentos sentí que fue escrito con cierto sentido de superioridad. Además de que no resonan conmigo los pasajes en los que se da a entender que debemos ser felices con cualquiera que sea nuestra situación y no hacer nada, ya que así lo quisieron los dioses, el universo, el destino de cada uno. 

Me parece que esta traducción no fue muy buena y me gustaría releerlo con una distinta, que esté más modernizada.
Aún así me parece impresionante que a pesar de ser escrito hace miles de años, se mantenga bastante vigente en la actualidad y sea un referente del estoicismo moderno.

Good book, overall, just a very solid read. Beautifully written. There were some aspects that made Gatsby such a lovable character. We can take some of his philosophy and way of living and apply it to our lives and it would make them more exciting and alive, not necessarily better, but definitely more interesting.

One of the things that I take from this book, and that was even more emphasized having watched the movie adaptation of it, was the way in which scenery is depicted, regardless of how important or unimportant to the story it was. Everything so peculiar and embellished, no object in this book seems to go unnoticed and praised. Whether for good or bad. Whenever I think about Gatsby, I think mostly of the landscapes this book describes, that will stick with me for a long time, and to be honest I believe this to be a huge praise to the author.

This left me wanting to read more from the author in the future.

Short book that serves well as an introduction to Tolstoy. I definitely want to keep embarking on reading more of his work and can now get a grasp on the topics he talked about.

I liked the story of Pakhom and his pursuit for land more than the story of the shoemaker and his encounter with an angel. It had multiple takeaways:
- How we perceive and value a certain lifestyle, so much that we are willing to make many sacrifices in order to keep living said lifestyle.
- How much we care about what others will say about us in the groomiest of circumstances: “If I stopped now, after coming all this way, well they'd call me an idiot”.

I didn't like how big a part religion had in the two stories of the book. However I do understand and somewhat expected it because of the time it was written.

Overall a very solid, quick and easy read.

I had a good time with this book, especially considering this is not a genre I'm too much into. It was a quick read despite being kind of long in terms of the number of pages and that made the story easily approachable.

Going through a breakup myself I definitely felt identified with some of the passages and thoughts from the characters, to the point that it even made me reflect on my own relationship, behaviors and attitudes toward love.

It was funny at times and I liked that at the end they didn't end up together, but instead they stayed true to themselves and followed each other's dreams. 
It lacked some punch, I don't know how to put it but that's why I'm only giving it a bit over 3 stars. I would recommend it but not like a must read whatsoever.

I have mixed feelings towards this book. On one hand I didn't have big expectations for it, and it still delivered some genuinely funny bits and good advices, so I could even say it exceeded what I was hoping for. 

But on the other hand, it took me a while to finish and I found myself constantly avoiding it. The heart doesn't lie at the end of the day, so I'd say this was a pretty average book that made me laugh but was tedious at times.

Great story, good message, fun ride, bad ending. 
I truly enjoyed reading this book, since starting it I felt hooked and couldn't put it down. A woman who feels bored and disappointed in her life gets to try how it'd be to live all other lives, all the possibilities it entails. I loved going through it, it made me feel so many emotions and even had some laughs.

I loved that it didn't end up being another typical story about romance, that the whole book is centered in one person, just how a life is. However, those last pages really derailed how I view this book, the optimistic angle on life and how the character “recognized” that there was nothing better than her own life. 

I believe this book was accomplishing, purely through the story itself, to make one feel what those final chapters describe. But in describing it, it fails to deliver to the rest of the greatness in it.

Just like book number 3, I felt this book was not as great as the first two entries. As with every collection of stories, some were very interesting and solid Sherlock stories, but others seemed a little lower in quality and even repetitive. The highs in this book were not as high as I expected and this book pushed me to take a break from this series.

My favorite stories from this book were:

• The adventure of Silver Blaze
• The adventure of the Yellow face 
• The adventure of the Gloria Scott
• The adventure of the Reigate Squire
• The adventure of the crooked man
• The adventure of the resident patient.

I think I would've liked this book a lot more had I read it in a different point of my life. I just feel like the setting of WWII is overused and now I'm determined to skip books like this for some time.

This book does, however, bring something different to the table. The fact that it's narrated by death itself is interesting and darker than most books of this kind. 

I had a good time exploring the friendship Liesel had with Rudy and with her foster parents Rosa and Hans. I think the key of the book is there, to see how people can still be kind and nurturing to their loved ones even in tough times.

One of if not the worst pieces of fiction I've read. The plot is absurd (some people trying to control the weather, evil twins, the search of biblical objects...) and none of the characters resonated with me. I just don't think I enjoyed a single thing out of this one.

Después de leer la obra completa de Juan Rulfo, puedo decir que mis momentos favoritos se encuentran en este libro. Sin embargo, como todo libro de cuentos, no todas las historias cuentan con el mismo nivel, y por ende su calificación total, no es perfecta.

Aún así, me parece un libro muy recomendable que nos proporciona una ventana a diversas situaciones sociales y culturales de nuestro país. Refleja muy bien las dificultades y conflictos que, principalmente los estratos sociales más bajos, han enfrentado, desde el siglo pasado y manteniéndose vigentes en la actualidad.

Libro presentado por medio de aforismos que buscan transmitir diferentes enseñanzas y pensamientos encaminados a distintas áreas de la vida.

A pesar de haber sido escrito originalmente en el siglo 17, muchos de los pasajes del libro se mantienen relevantes y son ideas que sin ningún problema podría uno encontrar en libros de auto ayuda modernos, lo cual es algo que merece crédito.
Sin embargo, muchas otras cosas no resonaron tanto conmigo y el lenguaje utilizado me pareció demasiado pomposo por momentos.

Gran libro, con una historia que me pareció muy profunda y estremecedora en distintos niveles. 
Los personajes de esta, y la figura del pueblo de Comala, con todo su misticismo y gris esencia, consiguieron atraparme de principio a fin. 

En la segunda ocasión que lo leí me pareció un tanto menos grato que la primera, de ahí que no consiga las cinco estrellas. Lo colocaría como una de las mejores historias de Juan Rulfo, solo quizá por debajo del Gallo de Oro y un par de cuentos incluidos en El Llano en llamas. 

Gran libro que verdaderamente me parece que todo mexicano deberia de tener en su repertorio de libros leídos. Presenta de forma breve y concisa muchos temas de gran cantidad de índoles de manera que podamos conocer más al respecto. 

Me parece una gran herramienta para todo aquel que esté en busca de aumentar su conocimiento sobre temas en general de nuestro país, sociedad y cultura. Puede uno simplemente leer un capitulo y profundizar en uno de los 100 temas, o bien leerlos todos. Esto aumenta su valor para releer en el futuro.

Un libro que por momentos es difícil de leer y digerir. Sin embargo lo disfruté muchísimo. Sin duda hay mucho que reflexionar al respecto, pero lo principal que me llevó de esta lectura es simplemente lo poco que la vida humana ajena nos puede importar.

The story of Valentino Achak Deng is amazing and unbelievable. The way Dave Eggers told it was not. It took me almost five months to finish this book and that's even considering I had to skim through some of it, otherwise I firmly think it'd taken me six or seven months. The reason for that is merely the storytelling. 

Throughout this book I found myself thinking this was great and even recommending the book to people - but then it hit me that even though the stories in Achak's life are so incredible, full of pain and distress, and that one can't help but feel sympathy for him and all the people in Sudan -the storytelling was just not up to par, and it made the book so much less enjoyable. 

I do think this needs to be read just to learn about the implications in the story itself, but I would even say watching a documentary on it would be better and far more exciting. Overall I would say it was a poor execution. 

I really enjoyed this book at the beginning. I was connecting with the experiments and works cited in it and highlighting a ton of passages that I thought would be useful in the future. But after the halfway point I'd say it took a dip in terms of quality, and finally it capped off with some pretty interesting exercises, ending on a good note. 

I believe feeling good about what we're doing is crucial in determining how much we can keep doing it, and this book left me with that idea well cemented in my head. It also provided a new angle for me to look at people, from the way I engage with them to the way I can even “use” them as a sort of accountability tool. 
It made me look at procrastination differently as well, having to go deep into it and analyze why we truly sometimes can't find the motivation to do something. Not always can we accomplish something off of pure discipline, we must have more to it. 

Among other useful ideas, this book delivered and accomplished its goal, in my opinion, which is to serve as a starting point for one to form a solid foundation of productivity and goals for the short, mid and long term.

I liked the story a lot. It's amazing to see how many different topics can be tackled in such a few pages. However, I think a little more pages would've been good if it meant to give the reader a clearer perspective of the ending, which I felt was very sudden and abrupt. 

The writing was also not very enjoyable, some diary entries were not transitioned in a smooth and I felt all along like it lacked something.

From how society has treated women and how man-oriented circumstances have been, to gaslighting them to the biggest extent, the subject of this book is a very powerful one, and the horror is definitely accomplished. I just think that it would've benefited from being a little longer.

Una historia que me consiguió atrapar desde su comienzo. Lo recomendaría mucho ya que me parece una trama que tiene de todo. Tintes de misterio, horror y hasta ciencia. Fue una gran aventura que disfruté mucho y que sin lugar a dudas volvería a leer en un futuro.

Leí un review en esta misma app que me parece que resume de excelente manera lo que este libro es: Un Sherlock Holmes medieval.

Interesante lectura que ejemplifica muy bien lo vivido durante una epidemia. Es bastante preciso porque describe diferentes ideologías, mentalidades y actitudes ante lo que se está viviendo, que efectivamente se muestran en el día a día de una emergencia sanitaria de tal magnitud. 
Por pasajes tiende a decaer un poco la narración y tornarse monótona, de ahí que no consigue las 5 estrellas.

La historia del Gallo de Oro me pareció de lo más destacable de la obra de Juan Rulfo. Sin problema alguno la pondría, junto con sus personajes, a la par de Pedro Páramo. 
Dionisio Pinzón me parece un personaje bastante relacionable, cómo a pesar de sus dificultades pudo salir avante gracias a ser capaz de ver una oportunidad que nadie más vio. Pasando a cómo lo perdió todo por rebelarse contra quien se le quiso imponer. Recuperando su fortuna y posteriormente, volviendo a perder todo por su avaricia y desentendimiento de la realidad. 
Esto, desde mi punto de vista, ejemplifica muy bien a la sociedad mexicana promedio, y las vivencias que cada uno pasa a lo largo de su vida. Saliendo en muchos casos perdedora por la ignorancia que se permea desde temprana edad en los diferentes estratos.

El resto de los relatos no me parecieron que estuvieran a la par del Gallo de Oro y de ahí la calificación que le doy al libro. 

A history book with a huge task at hand: to explain most of humankind's history in less than 500 pages. I've read some reviews that point out some things either left out or not particularly accurate, and while that can surely detract the impact of the book, I believe it accomplishes what it intends, which is to give a general idea of where we come from and how our modern world was formed. 

It gave me a sense of understanding in a greater scale aspects of humanity and humanity itself and I value that a lot. I would consider going deeper in those areas that caught my attention to get a bigger angle on them, but in way shape or form takes away from this book in my opinion.

A very powerful read. You gotta give props to anybody who speaks up and this book is a representation of that.
It educates on the struggle the black community faces everyday and the consequences it has on their lives.

Good plot, the majority of the elements for a good book are there, but there was something missing and if I had to put my finger on it would definitely be the way the book is written. And that's the only reason it only gets 3 stars.

I wish I liked this one more than I did. The plot is good. Death cast is a company that calls people on the day they are going to die so that they can live and appreciate those last hours doing whatever they think is appropriate for that occasion. That's the best thing to take away from the book: to sort of realize how short life is so we can enjoy it as best we can. It's a cliche idea but a very powerful one if we really think about it.

The problem I have with this book though, is that the middle part of it was not enjoyable. It has a great beginning and end but the rest is not up to par. 
Even though we know what will happen in the end it manages to keep the reader engaged and even a bit surprised as the last passages unfold. However some things felt tedious and even forced as if it was the Hollywood adaptation of the story and that's where this one lacks the power to be rated higher.