GeekEndWarrior

Engaging and thought provoking

Revisado: 07-21-24

I’m not a CNN viewer. The choice is stylistic as much as political, but I was aware of Sebastian Junger via his war reporting and a documentary or three. I’m glad that we met here.

Because, make no mistake, meet you will. This book is an intimate discussion of an experience that everyone shares—yet each does so in their individual experience, completely and utterly alone. He shares his unique medical crisis and details the anatomy of the body, of his body, exploring the randomness of variations within the human body and how the ones that are discovered in his own body affected his condition and how it developed.

He takes you along through the history of his process and of the things that have effected his own change in perspective about the nature of life and not life. The intimacy of his story-telling and taking you along makes for an enjoyable and interesting experience in which you will find yourself thinking about people and places in your own life—and how they impacted you.

I enjoyed this book as an interval in the midst of another listen. I have a habit of reading some books and listening to them while I read them. My listen drove me so far ahead that I wanted to give myself time to read up to where I was listening. I enjoy the reading much more when I’m able to experience hearing it some time near in congruence. This book took me out of my other listen for an engaging three days. I still haven’t gotten caught up in the pages, so I’m just going to keep going with Mr. Junger in his book “Freedom,” which he gives us an excerpt from at the end of this book. Smart, because it hooked me like a tuna & I went right into it.

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Great personal story about Noa’s love affair with Israel and the Jewish Nation—Rational, Erudite, Charming. Strong.

Revisado: 11-25-23

I stayed awake many nights to listen to this delightful book about a country that I love. I spent a lifetime there one Summer and I couldn’t explain why I felt so much more at home, so much more a part of any place—and I grew up in NYC, and I OWNED the place. This book does a wonderful job of explaining why. I’m an ardent, and avid Zionist and I have been since I can remember hanging out with my Bubbe watching her root for Bruno Sammartino to “Kill” Buddy Rogers at 4 years old. The love that I have for my people only grew and became deeper as I learned about many of my childhood friends’ parents who survived the Nazis—without their families. Now somewhat to the right of Rav Meir Kahane, I still found myself loving Noa’s book and unable to stop listening to her tell it. Thanks Mamele. You kept me company on some pretty tough nights.

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Still my favorite character of all

Revisado: 09-11-23

I can never get enough of Craig Johnson’s tales of Walt Longmire. He just makes a story come to life in a way that only Jack Carr can amongst newer writers…I’ll be waiting for the next stories from both of them—Impatiently.

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Magnificent Work that Brings you to Alexander’s Side

Revisado: 01-06-23

This incredible book will put you in the camp of Alexander’s army, as if you were an officer at his side. You see, and hear the battles, you listen to the reasoning of his men and interactions amongst heroes. Travel from Macedon to India, and participate in every battle in between, amid characters from history as alive as if they stood before you. I was enraptured, as if I rode beside Alexander himself. When Bucephalus died, my heart broke. When Alexandra died I felt the loss myself—an amazing book.

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An example of a carefully constructed and well-detailed story

Revisado: 12-29-22

I enjoy the fact that this book was narrated by, the main female character in the book. The fact that the book reaches into Kabbalah, and does so in a way that isn’t so detailed that it confuses, or turns people off, made this book all the more credible. I was familiar with the story of the 36 righteous men before picking up Steven Pressfield’s treatment. His rendering of the story in a way that didn’t have anything to do with Judaism or an understanding of it made it appealing to anyone. He made it universal, he made it engaging, he made it believable, and he made it frightening. I love Pressfield’s writing, having discovered it while an officer in the USMC. He writes for warriors, and even though this book doesn’t seem like it, this book is for warriors also—because all of us are warriors, in the sense in which this book construed the world and our common future. An excellent listen, one that I will return to after I have a chance to listen to a few dozen different books, and to make this story new again.

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Major Fred Galvin is a TRUE hero & GREAT MARINE!

Revisado: 10-01-22

I simply have to start by saying that I am so proud to call myself a Marine when I see a brother like Major Fred Galvin— my admiration for him is absolutely boundless, and my empathy for what he & Fox Company endured and were put through by invertebrate superior officers, who were marinated in their own narcissism, had me seeing blood in my eyes!

Listening to this story absolutely enraged me. To hear of the mindset, the anti-American bias and belief system, the political state of mind of American General officers and Colonels in charge of combat units—REAL Warfighters—in one of the most dangerous places on the planet made me nauseous.

The way they instantly defaulted to unquestioningly believing our enemies—known terrorists on our Intel terror watchlist—whilst ignoring the truth from the mouths of our own Marines, who were behind their guns, ON the field, engaged by a viciously treacherous enemy, left me with a knot of anger in my throat and a pure RAGE in my heart and soul. As a long-retired Marine from 1st Recon it left me sad and sick.

I used to believe that General James Mattis was a Marines’ Marine—always there for “his guys.” This book opened my eyes WIDE! I’m not sure why I ever thought that his carefully curated image was a thing that I could believe unquestioningly, but I was self-deceived, probably for my own morale. I’m wide awake now—Mattis is a politician, not a warrior.

What’s more, he’s STILL a Democrat—with ALL that ideology has come to mean to me after the last few years: Disgusting and preposterously left-leaning.

It’s easy to be a badass when other Marines are stopping the bullets, but to throw Fox Company under the bus on NO EVIDENCE but that from the enemy’s money-grubbing, prevaricating, abject fantasies—spewed from the reptilian mouth of a known terrorist, proudly engaged in taqiyya and FLAGRANTLY lying about HIS OWN and other Afghan Taliban’s roles in ambushing Fox Company’s US Marine convoy? Then the US Gov't apologizing and paying MILLIONS to those same terrorists--who were pandering to the ready-to-hate-Marines international media? Before even taking a minute to examine evidence? It leaves me sick and revolted—Mattis gets no more respect from me ever again.

I’m one who had the Mattis shirt that I wore proudly—but now I’m ashamed that I didn’t question the image. He’s less than nothing to me now—I used his shirt to wipe up dogshit on my driveway before I got the joy of burning it in my lawn/tree debris disposal pyre.

To Major Fred Galvin, and the Marines of Fox Company: as an American, I wholeheartedly apologize to y’all for how you were treated. You guys are heroes and the paragon of what it means to be a US Marine to me. I hope that I was the kind of Marine that you all are and always were. To Major Galvin: I salute you sir, and would gladly have carried my rifle right behind you, hand on your shoulder, watching your six. Semper Fidelis; Celeri Tacet Mortiferum!

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Wonderful story filled with hope and the joy of life

Revisado: 09-01-22

I loved the story and the premise of retaining one’s joy for life and dignity without ever indulging self-pity. Marvelous tale!

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Wonderful dramatic use of audiobook format as a play, not narration

Revisado: 03-19-22

This is basically a full on radio style play, acted—not narrated—by some terrific performers. I was sucked in from the start and listened straight through. You get involved in the story really quickly and it carries you along like any well-flowing drama. Reminded me in a very large way of a 1930s-style radio drama, in a very good way—nothing archaic about any of the story OR the performance. My only criticism is that the music at the end of chapters was not to my liking—I wanted to just get on with the play. I also was disappointed that it ended when it did—I’m impatiently awaiting the second part of this story. Since this was recorded in 2020, I can only hope that it’s going to be available soon!

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A Tour de Force Penetration of Myth, Fable,and Disinformation

Revisado: 07-29-19

Astonishingly well-researched and written by one of the more amazingly talented investigative truth-tellers whom we are lucky enough to have amongst us. She’s as pure a resource as we can conjure—practically an oracle—in our seeking out truths that have been buried, obscured or withheld from those of us whose minds are ready for and worthy of access to the truths that Ms. Jacobsen lays bare. Brava!

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Horrendously amateurish rendition of a less-than-mediocre tale.

Revisado: 03-03-19

How THIS steaming turd of a “book” ever got published, much less put on film, is a testament to the idiocy of the polluted values of our modern view of worthiness. I couldn’t even finish it—it was abject torture. Listening to the “speaker” use fake voices for different characters was something somebody got paid to conjure up? Why do all of her ethnic voices sound like a completely different ethnicity than that of the person that she’s trying to portray?

I was simply ASTONISHED at her blatant, repetitive use of mangled words: pronouncing BedStuy in Brooklyn as Bed “Stewie” (not “STY,” as in short for Stuyvesant) had my jaw hanging open after the SECOND time! Didn’t ANY idiot involved with this exercise in self-indulgence even LISTEN to this crap-burger before they released it to an unsuspecting public? Profoundly intolerable and a theft of my money. It disjointedly jumps back and forth with no rhyme or reason amongst characters, the writer, people in the writer’s life—just nauseating to even force myself into repeated tries at getting through it.

I ended up feeling sorry for myself for sitting through it, and MORE sorry for Tatanka Iyotake for sitting still—or rolling over—in his grave, somewhere, forced to be a part of this toxic-narcissistic neo-feminist self-worshipping amalgamation of explicating the author’s glaring psychological-issues-as-bullshit. It’s simply my own pity and kindness for the author’s child that had me refrain from wishing that she’d driven off of one of those Dakota roads that she seemed to obsess over. AAARRRRGGGGH! What a waste of time that I’ll never retreive!

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