Book Review: The Start-Up of YOU
The START-UP of YOU By Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha In January, General Assembly began a book club and I joined. I had never been part of a book club before and did not really like the idea of them. With a good book comes good conversation, but the idea of having to read something within a specific time frame and then contribute to the conversation seemed stress inducing. Also, the idea of book clubs conjures up an image of a bunch of housewives sitting around reading The Red Tent . Seeing as for the past few months I have yet to find a novel that piques my interest, (not to mention being less than gung-ho about being "forced" to read one,) the traditional Book Club did not appeal to me. But I do read. In fact, I have read a number of non-fiction books recently and have loved them. Most notably, was the Steve Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson. I was enthralled from page to page. Although I had such negative connotations with Book Clubs, I ass...