Jonathan Hancock

A brisk walk through memory techniques, including creating images, making stories, or using memory palaces (many covered in Moonwalking with Einstein. Provides lots of practice. Has a hearty, cheerful tone to it, very rah-rah, and could probably be boiled down to about two pages of text. The exercises for practicing the techniques are worthwhile, and the basis of the book is good. However, I lost patience with memorizing someone else's meaningless lists as an exercise, though. I'd rather memorize my own, more meaningful lists.

Judgment: A useful book, worth working your way through, but the valuable part is practicing the techniques.… (meer)

The skills that Hancock teaches in his book on memory training are solid and they really work. Unfortunately, he is also terribly long-winded, and what takes up over 200 pages could have been condensed into a booklet, or even a pamphlet. He tends to repeat himself over and over again, and fills up a lot of space suggesting exercises and then doing it for you in his own examples.

But the process works, and if applied, the techniques taught here will actually drastically improve your memory. So while sometimes frustrating to read, the results speak for themselves.… (meer)