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Review by aimlessreader -- The Banned Book about Love
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4 out of 4 stars
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The Banned Book about Love by Scott Hughes
I gave this book 4 out of 4 Stars
In the beginning, this book is about Brock Turner. Scott Hughes writes about what Brock did, what he is charged with, and the massive hate towards Brock Turner. This book is non-fiction, but it's not a retelling of a past event, a biography, a study of rape in college, or anything similar. This book isn't even about Brock Turner. It is about love and hate. Brock Turner is simply a device used to convey part of this message.
The author makes eye-opening statements about the media. He writes about how promoting mass hate online is destructive and almost never does anything to help our society. He makes you reconsider every time you've blindly reposted something calling pain down on someone. He makes you reconsider what is hate and what is love. His message is eloquently written and completely view changing.
It is not without its flaws. The beginning of the book is undeniably boring. It is a struggle to get through the first few pages without having your mind wander off at least once. Scott Hughes' writing style could be rather hard to follow as well. Personally, I didn't have any trouble, but it could be an issue for others. Many of Hughes' sentences seem more flowery than needed. He seemed to jump off the end of an idea too quickly; as if he was in a rush to get to the main point and didn't spend enough time completing each thought.
However, he did fulfill the age old rule of "Write a lot about a little.". While it seemed he didn't round off all of his thoughts completely, it wasn't difficult to grasp his meaning. His were also woven into each other remarkably well. He wasn't writing about snow one sentence and then writing about spoons the next. His writing was jumpy in the same sense that thoughts are when trying to puzzle something out. It gives the feeling of actually thinking and forming the thoughts yourself instead of just reading them. His headers were also well-used and provided more context for the next idea he was introducing.
I gave this book four stars because I believe it contains a message everyone needs to read. People are so caught up in the online world. They are critical of everything. Everything is a scam and nobody is trustworthy until proven otherwise. They judge blindly on hearsay and unconsciously love to be to righteously angry over things. Many people don't even realize they're doing it. Hughes not only points this out to the unsuspecting victims of this trait, but he does it under the guise of a different message. On top of that, he doesn't degrade or look down upon people who were caught in this line of thinking. He simply suggests a new path of thought. Everyone should read this because going your whole life seeing the world through one pair of lenses is dangerous. This book will give you a new prescription.
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4 out of 4 stars
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The Banned Book about Love by Scott Hughes
I gave this book 4 out of 4 Stars
In the beginning, this book is about Brock Turner. Scott Hughes writes about what Brock did, what he is charged with, and the massive hate towards Brock Turner. This book is non-fiction, but it's not a retelling of a past event, a biography, a study of rape in college, or anything similar. This book isn't even about Brock Turner. It is about love and hate. Brock Turner is simply a device used to convey part of this message.
The author makes eye-opening statements about the media. He writes about how promoting mass hate online is destructive and almost never does anything to help our society. He makes you reconsider every time you've blindly reposted something calling pain down on someone. He makes you reconsider what is hate and what is love. His message is eloquently written and completely view changing.
It is not without its flaws. The beginning of the book is undeniably boring. It is a struggle to get through the first few pages without having your mind wander off at least once. Scott Hughes' writing style could be rather hard to follow as well. Personally, I didn't have any trouble, but it could be an issue for others. Many of Hughes' sentences seem more flowery than needed. He seemed to jump off the end of an idea too quickly; as if he was in a rush to get to the main point and didn't spend enough time completing each thought.
However, he did fulfill the age old rule of "Write a lot about a little.". While it seemed he didn't round off all of his thoughts completely, it wasn't difficult to grasp his meaning. His were also woven into each other remarkably well. He wasn't writing about snow one sentence and then writing about spoons the next. His writing was jumpy in the same sense that thoughts are when trying to puzzle something out. It gives the feeling of actually thinking and forming the thoughts yourself instead of just reading them. His headers were also well-used and provided more context for the next idea he was introducing.
I gave this book four stars because I believe it contains a message everyone needs to read. People are so caught up in the online world. They are critical of everything. Everything is a scam and nobody is trustworthy until proven otherwise. They judge blindly on hearsay and unconsciously love to be to righteously angry over things. Many people don't even realize they're doing it. Hughes not only points this out to the unsuspecting victims of this trait, but he does it under the guise of a different message. On top of that, he doesn't degrade or look down upon people who were caught in this line of thinking. He simply suggests a new path of thought. Everyone should read this because going your whole life seeing the world through one pair of lenses is dangerous. This book will give you a new prescription.
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