A review by didireadthat
To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design by Henry Petroski

adventurous hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

I loved this book. It was full of great examples, and written in a way that easily explains many aspects of structural engineering. The short chapters made the book go buy quickly and I appreciated the optimism in the wake of many mistakes. 

The book kinda of lost me when it started to show its age talking about computers and it was difficult for me to stay interested around chapter 14. But everything I liked at the beginning was brought back in the conclusion. Overall a great book and I wish I had come across it sooner.