The audible publishes audiobooks. Since I love to read but don’t have much time to read, listening to audio books is great help. I am using audio book for reviewing the book because listening is kind of passive action. Sometimes, I am thinking different things when I am listening and happen to skip some words and sentences. So, I don’t listen to the book I don’t know. I just listen to the book I already know the story. I will review here on this blog what I listened to audible shorter than what I write about the real book.
- Talk like TED.
This book is about TED talk. The author summarized what successful TED talkers have in common. “Passion” is most important. How can I be passionate about something? I believe that people already ruled out how people can succeed. This book is written in the beginning of 21th century though, the rules should have been same. I love this sentence in this book “Ideas are currency in 21th century”
- The Grouped
I read this book sometime in 2012. This book was surprising because I believe this idea is one of the first examples of big data analysis, trying to explain how people connect on the web and how people relate each other. This is the summary of these phenomena at the time of writing though, the author explains very well. And this book is very simple small book though, it is very well organized. I think most of Japanese can’t do this. I am impressed every time I read this book.
- Norwegian woods
When I am tired of listening to English, usually I listen to this book. I don’t know how many times I have read and listened to. This story is kind of sad because the person died in the story who the main character Toru loved much. She committed suicide. How hard Toru tried and was patient, she chose to die. I am always thinking by reading this book, sometimes how hard I loved someone, and she might leave me. So, why not just loving, just doing what I think that is right things to do?
- Think and Grow Rich
By listening TED talk, Richard St, John summarized by interviewing 500 people. On this book, Napoleon hill did that like him. I am thinking there is formula which lead people succeeded already. Even though time has changed, the words are different, what authors are trying say sounds same. I reviewed this book almost 5 years since I have read last time. I believe what he said is true, only problem is how to apply them to our life.
I am listening to Audible at the speed x3. But, when I measured actual speed, it turned out x2 times faster than normal speed. The speed x2 which app shows actually is x1.5. So, please be aware when you are listening to them at limited time. I reviewed 4 books here and I will write here again what I am reading. The review I am going to write here is not literally “review”, just my impression about the books. As I said before, we can’t listening to everything on the book when we are listening to audiobooks.