Gotta love a all-out pan, in this case of a "update" to
How to Win Friends and Influence People
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Carnegie’s great virtue, beyond the simplicity of his core ideas, was his unadorned prose....
That homespun virtue has been obliterated here. This new adaptation seems to have been composed using refrigerator magnets stamped with corporate lingo: “transactional proficiency,” “tangible interface,” “relational longevity,” “continuum of opportunities,” “interpersonal futility,” and “our faith persuasion.” ...
The following sentence is so inept that it may actually be an ancient curse and to read it more than three times aloud is to summon the cannibal undead: “Today’s biggest enemy of lasting influence is the sector of both personal and corporate musing that concerns itself with the art of creating impressions without consulting the science of need ascertainment.”
“Today’s biggest enemy of lasting influence is the sector of both personal and corporate musing that concerns itself with the art of creating impressions without consulting the science of need ascertainment.”
Deer loward, that's the ourobouros of business speak.
Kat! I got the book, thank you! And thanks, t, too! It's great timing, because I have the Persuasion reread, and then the SO is gone all next week (boo, but for recording, so I guess it's a good cause) so I can be all Hunger Games trilogy all week.
“Today’s biggest enemy of lasting influence is the sector of both personal and corporate musing that concerns itself with the art of creating impressions without consulting the science of need ascertainment.”
I almost won't to throw that out (up?) at a meeting and see if anyone blinks. Almost.
Garth Williams' illustrations for Farmer Boy at auction: [link]
Oh, man, do I want a Garth Williams Little-House-series original! If I ever win the lottery, that's on the top of my list.
Fox is adapting The Magicians for television:
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Oh, interesting. And Miller and Stentz have good television pedigree (Sarah Connor Chronicles and Fringe).
Fox is adapting The Magicians for television: [link]
::covers JZ's eyes::
Cool. I knew somebody would snap it up and I hoped it would be a series instead of a movie. I was reading the sequel in the bookstore and it's very engaging.
Has anyone finished the sequel? I'm afraid to start it. I had some problems with the latter half of the first book and I want to know how the narrative structure of the 2nd is.
