Books by Austin Kleon
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review 1: Well, that's a short book, I said to myself when I saw how fast I went from 2%to 35% on my Kindle. I realized then and there that it is short but intense, Klein wrote the essential and only that. Most books have "fillings", useless words and empty phrases to increase the page num...
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review 1: I was expecting this to be a bit of hipster self-help hucksterism, more “show your work by selling other people on the idea they can show their work, just like me!” than anything else. That's more a comment on me than the book though. It’s not bad, at all. It's a quick read, e...
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review 1: Very interesting way of making poems out of newspaper articles and reusing the words of others, making them mean something quite different (usually). Some of the poems I really enjoyed what came out of just a few words that happened to be in the vicinity of each other in the same...
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review 1: Good stuff here. A book of practical inspiration from Kleon.
review 2: BEYOND LOVED this book! Excellent gift for all the creative people in your life.
review 2: BEYOND LOVED this book! Excellent gift for all the creative people in your life.
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review 1: This was just three stars until I got to chapter 4 and came across a very practical idea that I'd like to implement: create two different work areas, one that's digital (computer and other gadgets) and another that's purely analog (pen and paper, sticky notes, scissors, bulletin ...
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review 1: This book reminded me of things I needed to remember about creativity. I'm grateful.
review 2: 140 pages of humorous advice that can put the creative life in its proper perspective.
review 2: 140 pages of humorous advice that can put the creative life in its proper perspective.
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review 1: I have greatly enjoyed reading this book and I think I'll come back to it from time to time to give me a good kick. One of the things I really liked was that it was straight to the point, not unlike some books that pointlessly prattle on about unnecessary details for every chapte...