Review: Too Many Examples!
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 04 5, 2012
Simon John Lee uses this almost two-hundred page book to explore the idea that our brains like to compute things in threes. The layout of Mr. Lee's theories in the book not only didn't convince me, it bored me. It almost seemed as if he had to produce a certain amount of words to have the book published and therefore wrote as much "filler" as possible. The author starts the book out by explaining how our brains like to process information, not with single ideas or instructions, not in twos or fours and so on, and why we have trouble doing it in these amounts. The book is divided up into short, easily read sections that make the book a quick and easy read. Unfortunately, there are too many sections. There are individual ones for ten separate numbers. Included in each of these sections are why our brains don't like to process information in each of the number's amount and why. This became exceedingly boring to me.  A lot of the information or basis for the author's hypothesis seems very forced, as if he says it enough then the reader will assume he must be right. There are far too many examples in this book. The multitude of them takes away from the points trying to be made. I'm not saying the author doesn't have valid points. He most definitely does prove the possibility that our brains, not us consciously, choose to think in thirds. There are certain sections that I found to be fascinating. One in particular I enjoyed involved Einstein's Theory and another was about colors, both concerning the Thirds Theory. I just think the book could have benefited from combining the sections involving all of the different numbers and excluding some of the numerous examples. After all, if my brain likes to think in threes as suggested then no wonder I was befuddled by all of this!