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Hard to say if I've finished this book. I've read through it, but have just finished my 2nd project of the 12 (and I'm not going to do all of them). It was appealing to me as the projects were simple (good for a beginner) and meant for outdoors (great since I have a gardening wife, and also not a lot of space for new indoor furniture).

The first two projects were pretty straightforward, and they have helped me get acquainted with basic power tools at my tool library/shop space. This may change -- some of the later projects make pretty big leaps between steps, which hopefully won't be a problem by the time I have experience to tackle them. There are typos, which have slowed me down a bit, but nothing catastrophic (yet).

This is more of an overview of self help business books throughout the last century, with a few personal anecdotes (and a chapter on 2005 era Trump that was hard to get through in 2019). Some good passages but overall not much here.

Almost nothing about where he went, and most of the people he meets are other backpackers. Pretty tedious.

Short book that still occasionally seems padded or overly discursive with its criticism of modern medicine, science ( aspects of science historically rather), modern lifestyle trends in health and wellness, class consciousness, and so on. Much of this will be familiar to anyone who has read her most recent books.
I think this was patched together from articles. I did appreciate the reflections on aging and foregoing intrusive medical testing.