Horribly wooden one-dimensional characters, overreaches and underdelivers. Emily stands out as a particularly underrealized character, she has a lot of potential but the author’s inablity to ascribe actual agency to her beyond Orientalist-tinged masturbatory wish-fulfillment fantasy is a real downer.
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signalnine rated Gnomon: 5 stars

Gnomon by Nick Harkaway (duplicate)
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Authority by Jeff VanderMeer (FSG originals)
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The 4-Hour Work Week by Timothy Ferriss
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The portable MBA in entrepreneurship by William D. Bygrave, Andrew Zacharakis (The portable MBA series)
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Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey A. Moore
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signalnine rated Influence: 3 stars

Influence by Robert Cialdini (Collins Business Essentials)
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Getting Things Done by David Allen
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