Clocking in at an amazingly short 147 pages, Driven is a breath of fresh air when compared to the books I have been reading lately. The writing is clean and simple. The sentences short and to the point. The vocabulary purely functional. I liked it. Driven finds our mysterious hero Driver alive and well and living in Phoenix. In the opening scene two men try to kill him. He kills them, but not before they kill his girlfriend. This leads to the Jeremiah Johnson plotline where random men crawl out of the woodwork and do mortal combat with Driver. Cars…
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Hector and the Search for Happiness
Lesson No. 1: Making comparisons can spoil your happiness. Once upon a time there was a young psychiatrist called Hector who was not very satisfied with himself. Hector is a man on a mission. He wants to find out what makes people happy so that he can help his patients become happy, too. He is baffled that so many of the people he sees are not happy, even when they have nothing wrong with them and life should be good. Hector and the Search for Happiness is written in a simple and straightforward style. Not quite Dick and Jane, but…