Adam Savage: Every Tool's a Hammer (2019, Atria Books)
English language
Published Oct. 19, 2019 by Atria Books.
A structured chaotic trip through the brain of one of my favourite people. This is my first audiobook since primary school (excepting longform podcasts), and I enjoyed it immensely.
Disappointingly reads like a business self-help book.
Being a long time Mythbusters-fan I forgot all about my other plans on what I will read/listen next when this came on Audible. The book was very well written and structured and Adam Savage read his own text in a perfect way. I guess it is easy to read words that are your own. It had high entertainment value as well as a lot of information, but I wouldn't buy this as a manual on how to make anything. It's more a question of certain philosophy towards making, selection of tools and materials and how to be effective and finish things. While I don't really like self improvement books and wouldn't call this such, it gave me some ideas and I could extrapolate the lessons to outside of the original realm of physically making things and my guess is that some of the ideas might even work. I would say …
Being a long time Mythbusters-fan I forgot all about my other plans on what I will read/listen next when this came on Audible. The book was very well written and structured and Adam Savage read his own text in a perfect way. I guess it is easy to read words that are your own. It had high entertainment value as well as a lot of information, but I wouldn't buy this as a manual on how to make anything. It's more a question of certain philosophy towards making, selection of tools and materials and how to be effective and finish things. While I don't really like self improvement books and wouldn't call this such, it gave me some ideas and I could extrapolate the lessons to outside of the original realm of physically making things and my guess is that some of the ideas might even work. I would say that there are many dimensions in this book (not even sure if all of the ones I found are intentional) and it's also an easy read and highly entertaining even without looking for profound messages.
