Review of "Summary of Dave Bruno's the 100 Thing Challenge" on 'Goodreads'
2 stars
Interesting idea, less interesting book. Everything interesting about Dave Bruno's 1-year experiment could have been covered in a magazine-length article. As a book, Bruno gave us lots and lots of filler information that was tangentially related to the challenge.
Other reviewers quibble about the flexible boundaries of counting "100 things," and Bruno himself described his own ground rules that allowed him to count his library as one thing, and to exclude any of his family's shared belongings. These semantics didn't bother me as much as the overriding tone of Bruno's religious faith. His bible counts as a separate thing, but the rest of his library is a massive, other thing?
While an interesting commentary on our culture's focus on consumption, the book was rather weak as a memoir.
(And I do not own this book. I borrowed the Kindle version from the library.)