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LEONARDO DA VINCI Paperback

LEONARDO DA VINCI Paperback

byWalter Isaacson
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Rohan jora
5.0 out of 5 starsTruly a Gem
Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 11 January 2022
Walter Isaacson's exceptional intelligence evokes in an organized and simple way with this masterpiece.
This book is the monumental tribute to one of the greatest geniuses ever lived: Leonardo Da Vinci, who was not merely extraordinarily smart, but also an acute observer, voraciously curious, and ingeniously creative human.

After reading the spell-binding plot of Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown, I was fascinated by Leonardo and eager to read more about him. I purchased a hardcover version of Leonardo Da Vinci, The Biography by Walter Isaacson, the most prominent biographer, who has written several masterpieces including, my favorite, Steve Jobs. After completing this book, I am overwhelmed by how special he was.

The author has intelligently organized the whole life of Leonardo in 32 chapters, illustrated with full-color photographs of paintings, sketches, and diagrams from his notebooks.

Leonardo was truly one-of-a-kind. His curiosity impelled him to become among the handful of people in history who tried to know all there was to know and to know about everything that could be known. Just as an example, he put" Describe the tongue of the woodpecker " on one of his oddly inspiring to-do lists.

I'll eminently recommend this book to everyone because one can learn life-changing lessons from the life of a genius, yet also a human who did mistakes. Leonardo set an example of how acute observations, fanatic curiosity, willingness to question dogma, and ability to discern patterns across disciplines can lead to a great leap in human understanding.

Aah! The Mona Lisa is on page 476.

Rating is de facto 5/5⭐️.
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Amogh Thakur
3.0 out of 5 starsQuality issues, but a good read
Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 9 March 2021
The book is a bit formed from below, else, it’s a superb book and a must read.
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Amita Sharma
1.0 out of 5 stars Good book but poor packaging
Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 16 January 2021
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The books content is excellent but the packaging done by seller was very poor.
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Anshul
1.0 out of 5 stars Damaged twice.
Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 30 December 2018
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The book is great. Considering the packaging and handling for the order it is very poor. Both the books I received were damaged, usually there are no errors with the delivery, however this one was an exception.
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Chandrajeet K.
1.0 out of 5 stars Damage product delivered
Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 7 October 2020
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Damage product delivered from two corners.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Damage product delivered
Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 7 October 2020
Damage product delivered from two corners.
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Avinash Tripathi
1.0 out of 5 stars Poor Print Quality
Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 24 October 2017
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Paper quality is atrocious. Poor printing. Looks like a duplicate product. Other wise the subject is splendid.
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Shubhabrata Mitra
1.0 out of 5 stars Torn Hard Cover
Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 28 May 2018
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Hard cover torn. Utterly horrible. Returning.
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abhishek kumar
1.0 out of 5 stars Poor condition.
Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 12 February 2018
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Torn binding
Mutilated hardbind
Soiled jacket.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Damaged
Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 3 September 2018
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Walter Scott
1.0 out of 5 stars da Vinci da Worst!
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 12 January 2018
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Unquestionably the WORST biography I have ever had the misfortune of buying and reading. Despite the huge potential in his subject, Isaacson somehow manages to write a book that is the most boring, dry, redundant, and pedantic biography in any library of the world. With great pain and suffering, I forced myself to slog through this terrible tome to the bitter end, and learned that da Vinci loved curly hair and young boys. Until reading this book, I had actually been under the impression that da Vinci was a titan of art and science. But, after reading in great detail what he actually managed to finish and accomplish, Isaacson has convinced me that da Vinci was more weird than wise, and more untethered than together. I would resell this book to try to regain some of my financial loss, but my conscience prevents me from inflicting it upon another reader. My loss of time is, sadly, never to be recouped.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Terrible quality but a great book - a real shame.
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 16 August 2018
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The book is fascinating! The quality of the book is about the worst I have ever seen. There’s virtually no glue binding the pages. I bought this as a gift for my husband. He’s very careful with books but even with gentle reading, this book started to fall apart before he had even gotten through the first several chapters. I just hope it stays together enough so he can finish it.
We order a lot from Amazon - I have ne era received anything that was such inferior quality. I hope Amazon will investigate their supplier for books and find a new supplier who will deliver quality commensurate with the price paid. This isn’t worth a buck in its present state. We like to pass along books that we enjoy but I’m afraid this one is destined for the trash/recycling. What a shame. What a waste. :(
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1.0 out of 5 stars Terrible quality but a great book - a real shame.
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 16 August 2018
The book is fascinating! The quality of the book is about the worst I have ever seen. There’s virtually no glue binding the pages. I bought this as a gift for my husband. He’s very careful with books but even with gentle reading, this book started to fall apart before he had even gotten through the first several chapters. I just hope it stays together enough so he can finish it.
We order a lot from Amazon - I have ne era received anything that was such inferior quality. I hope Amazon will investigate their supplier for books and find a new supplier who will deliver quality commensurate with the price paid. This isn’t worth a buck in its present state. We like to pass along books that we enjoy but I’m afraid this one is destined for the trash/recycling. What a shame. What a waste. :(
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BookCrazy
1.0 out of 5 stars Defective Binding
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 15 March 2021
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The hardcover version I bought is falling apart as I read it. Since the book arrived, it has sat on my bookshelf waiting its turn to be read. I moved it from the shelf to the desk in my study where I began to read it, and by the time I got fifty pages into the book, I noticed the pages starting to become detached from the binding. I intend to stop reading and will seek a refund or durable replacement from either Amazon or the publisher. And note, I did not carry this book around. It has never left my bookshelf or desktop since arriving here.
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