Amir A.’s Reviews > Run the World: My 3,500-Mile Journey Through Running Cultures Around the Globe – An Olympic-Level Memoir of Training Methods Across Kenya, Ethiopia, and Japan > Status Update

What is the point of this book? If its chapters were articles in a magazine or a newspaper it would be understandable. But a book should offer insights on a deeper level, and here all the reader gets are superficial observations. Anyone could have written this. Where is the author's philosophy in these interactions she has with people and places? It seems all that's different from one place to the next is the food.

A nice young woman from Texas travels to different countries and goes running with the people she meets. Halfway into the book and that seems to be all there is to it. The story is so superficial and generic, anyone could have written it. The author doesn't dig into her own personality, certainly not into the personalities of the people she encounters, and it makes for an unfulfilling reading experience.

Just ok, kind of boring at times.