Nov 28, 2023SarahTink rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
While I agree with Brooks on many of his ideas regarding our culture's need to shift back towards a more communal and duty-driven and less self-promoting attitude, I feel that along with the book leaning entirely too hard into *Christian*…
Mar 15, 2019AnnabelleLee27 rated this title 2.5 out of 5 stars
The introduction and conclusion were the strongest, clearest, and most convincing sections. I found I did not agree with many of the significant points or interpretations within the main section but there are several interesting topics…
Jan 27, 2017jackzelda rated this title 0.5 out of 5 stars
David Brooks should stick to radio where he is articulate and his columns which are focused.
In the book, he takes a pompous, preachy, presumptuous, prudish tone using a lot of psychobabble. He has one good idea and expands it into a…
Sep 13, 2016D_Johnston1 rated this title 0.5 out of 5 stars
Probably one of the worst nonfiction books I've ever seen. That people are impressed by the three source sub-undergrad level profiles is remarkable enough. That people so consistently praise the pretentious and repetitive prose? That's…
Apr 29, 2016theCobras rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
This book is an inspiring, challenging classic. Character is presented as the most important priority in a person's life. The book highlights thrlives of figures in history who have suffered to develop character.
Apr 10, 2016caowenhong rated this title 2.5 out of 5 stars
I chose this book for self improvement. Brooks used great figures from the history as the examples to explain the road to character. Although it is inspiring to read about great historical figures but it also made it hard for me to relate…
Mar 01, 2016okieman rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
A very good contemporary guide to this topic. *Not* the typical preachy tone that bogs down many books about character. The author's style is idiosyncratic and can vary from eloquent to vaguely clunky, but not enough to distract readers.
Just OK. A few quotables. Seems to reach out to those of his readers, listeners, viewers, part of a mainstream eddying in the backwaters of apathy and quietism. Otherwise, preaching to the choir. Worth a skim.
I was intrigued by this book just reading the blurb. The mention of "Resume Values" vs. "Eulogy Values," grabbed me hook, line, and sinker.
Seeing how much the definition of "character" has changed over the years, it is indeed a…
Star Gladiator, your analysis of David Brooks' book is full of such anger, which appears to be the result of extreme left radicalism. How can you live with such hatred in your heart?
I am looking forward to reading this book by David Brooks who comments weekly on the PBS Newshour. I like his thinking although I don't always agree with his politics.
Yes, 'Star', you seem more than a bit envious and paranoid.
It seems to me, that Character most certainly involves Depth! ...otherwise, one is Shallow and WITHOUT Character..
Didn't realize Brooksy appeared on the Koch brothers financed, PBS News Hour - - should have guessed. But he is a columnist for that illustrious publication, the NY Times, which scoffed at libertarian candidate Johnson's gaffe on not…
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The Road to Character