Reviews

Accidental Genius: Revolutionize Your Thinking Through Private Writing by Mark Levy, Tom Peters

pingthevile's review against another edition

3.0

Good coverage of the material, but it wasn't exactly what I'd been looking for.

pikapp22's review against another edition

1.0

Terrible book. If I could rate this zero, I would. Really struggled to get through. Like other reviewers, this is probably a 10 page essay stretched to almost 200 pages. Only read because it's on the Personal MBA list.

harishwriter's review against another edition

4.0

An entire book on free writing! That's little too much to chew. The book extols the virtues of free writing and presents the hints and examples to get started start with it right away. I liked certain passages of the book and skimmed through the examples (real use cases). My favourite sections are warm up exercises, chunking, creating a text collage and writing marathon.

warwriter's review against another edition

3.0

It was a quick read, and very interesting. Free-writing is like stretching before a big writing project, it's a spewing out of ideas onto paper so you can see how your mind works. But as another reviewer said, it's short enough that it could just as well be a blog post. I would definitely give some of the exercises in this book a try.

charliemartin's review against another edition

5.0

Deep and Concise.
A lot of suggestions aiming at enhancing your freewriting sessions.
I keep it as a reference.

dbuntinx's review against another edition

4.0

Nice exercises to start 'free-writing'. Fun to hear someone else's workflow and try it out yourself.

bcdcompostela143's review against another edition

1.0

This guy must be good at small talk because that was what the book felt like. It should have been titled "Freewriting" and that was it. A good example will clear up the little doubts that the readers had.

He has plenty of ideas but managed them in the most boring way possible. I wonder if he was a really good comedian or magician. Maybe he was made for consulting but not writing. Definitely not writing.

Lucky I had this book for free. LAWD, that was excruciating.