Intensely Focused

This book was very badly written. The grammar was terrible. A few sentences had words left out. One sentence was missing a verb. And the example conversations...oh my God. First of all, they were often preceded by "the following conversation ensued" which always made me think of the On-Star commercials. More importantly, the conversations were just terrible. I'm honestly not sure which were worse, the sample problem conversations or the sample "correct problem solving" conversations. The first made every couple sound like a couple of children who like to swear and the latter were just completely unrealistic. They sounded more like a parody of the stereotypes about the kind of conversations your therapist tells you to have than a real conversation.

There are a few good points, and there were a few things that I thought were pretty clearly a difference of the sexes, but you had to dig for the useful things. I also felt like everything was given a surface level examination so even the things that were good or relevant weren't dealt with in any depth. Surely there must be a better book out there.