The Ultimate Gift

My sister gave me a Turkish translation of The Ultimate Gift when I was
visiting her. Normally, I don’t read these books anymore. Mostly
because I read tons of them at some point in my life and I feel like I
want to take a break from all the advice-giving text. But since she gave
it to me and jet lag was preventing me from reading anything that
requires a lot of attention, I gave it a try. I struggled a lot with the
Turkish translation since it was so obvious that the translator didn’t
make any effort to make it sound more Turkish. Some of the phrases were
direct translations and didn’t make much sense in Turkish.



The “gifts” were relatively obvious to me but I did like a few of them,
especially the idea of the Golden List. Overall, I thought it was an
okay read but I don’t know that I would have missed much if I hadn’t
read the book.