Discover the lies, manipulations, and everything in between. In this summary and analysis of the #1 Best Seller from Mary L. Trump, Too Much and Never How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man , you will ... and much more! In today’s digital age, we can access millions of information within our fingertips. But how do you know which ones are relevant to you ? That is why we have carefully curated all the essential points from Too Much and Never Enough into an easy-to-read, short but concise summary book. This summary and analysis can Every experience, no matter how big or small, leaves an imprint on one’s personality and well-being. *This is an unofficial summary and analysis of Mary L. Trump’s Too Much and Never How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man. This book only serves as a guide, is not the original book, and is not endorsed by Mary L. Trump or her publisher.
While I love the idea of summaries for trending or hot topic nonfiction books, I am rarely pleased with what I read. I expect a summary to be tight, well focused, and internally consistent and coherent. While, of course, the original book would have shades of detail that a summary cannot have, you should be able to distill the essence of the book and its arguments from a summary. I have had issues with other summaries by this company, but I feel this book is somewhat better written in terms of the internal coherency, which I am of course very happy to see. I felt like I got a true sense of the original book, though I did think that some chapters were perhaps a little too scanty in their summaries. Interestingly, the prologue is given many pages compared to the chapters; I don't know if its original length actually merits that long for a summary. The book does fall foul, unfortunately, of one of the biggest problems I see in summaries, where it is as if the summarizer is telling us what the author says instead of just saying what the author says. That really bothers me in summaries. The writing is a little awkward at times, like this phrase, “Mary’s feelings about her family name and of her family begin to complicate.” Perhaps the author should have said “begin to get complicated” or “became complicated,” but “begin to complicate” is not a construction we use in standard English. Aside from the chapter-by-chapter summary, the book also has a very brief analysis of the entire work at the beginning (in glowing terms), a little about the work and author in general, and what they call trivia questions about the book and author. These aren’t really standard trivia questions, though. All in all, while I didn't like some details, I actually felt like I learned something from this book, and it sparked my curiosity about the actual book. I think that is one function of a summary!
I received a free copy of this book, but that did not affect my review.
I received an Advance Reader Copy of this book. The book begins with an overview, followed by summaries of each of Mary Trump’s 14 chapters that comprise the unabridged book. Each section consists of a few chapters, and the original chapter titles are listed before the summary begins. The summary book concludes with background information about Dr. Trump’s book, a brief biography, and trivia questions (without answers). I used a Paperwhite to read the Kindle edition of this book. The formatting and paging were perfect. I only found a couple of errors (faithful instead of fateful, his uncle instead of her uncle). With these minor exceptions, the spelling, grammar, and punctuation were excellent. The summary book reads well and is easy to understand. Blake Terry did a great job of abridging Dr. Trump’s book. All of the important information from the original book is there, but the summary never sounds choppy or incomplete. It’s an impressive job of writing and editing.