Donna J. Parkinson

Too much reliance on windmills and batteries

Revisado: 03-02-25

This is fascinating journey through the 6 essential elements on which we rely today. He overlays lots of ‘going green’ propaganda and takes as a given, with which of course we all blindly agree, yet no mention for example of the environmental damage the enormous windmill farms are causing the oceans and their creatures. You would think with all his concerns about the future of the planet, he would at least mention the effects of some of the ‘renewable’ energy sources on the planet. He’s a Brit, so maybe that’s cultural but there are big gaps in his handling of the green energy initiatives. Even so, the information about the six elements is well researched and provides an intimate look into how those resources are produced. That makes it worth reading. You just have to wade through the green propaganda.

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Shameless promotion for his and his wife’s business

Revisado: 02-02-25

He is stuck on Paleo diet but his vision of paleo is fiction. He mentions Weston Price who studied indigenous diets but Wolfson obviously hasn’t actually studied Price’s findings. In Wolson’s paleo diet indigenous people were all the same, They killed and ate meat and moved rocks. But Weston Price found that indigenous diets varied depending on what was available. African Maasai tribes drank blood and milk. Eskimos ate fermented fish. So Wolson’s assertion that milk and grains are not paleo is just wrong. Sprouted organic fermented grains are delicious and healthy. Likewise raw milk and raw dairy can cure some illnesses. Otherwise, lots of chemicals and medical terms in the book and some helpful gems, but take diet recommendations with a grain of salt.

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Kash Patel is a pretty amazing an decent guy.

Revisado: 12-05-24

Good read. Everything we thought was true is true. Good luck to Kash at the FBI.

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Too much of Walter Isaacson, the Author

Revisado: 10-23-24

Elon’s story is complex and not finished yet. A next century mega person with goggle vision into the future. Read it to learn more about this amazing character of our times. Ignore all Walter Isaacson’s officious opinions and insertions of himself into the story. He’s minimally noteworthy as a person. And clearly suffers from TDS.

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Arrogance

Revisado: 08-27-24

This author should take this book off the market or do an edit update. 14 years later, there is much more known about longevity that his guesses as to what centenarians do to live long are just that-guesses. Yet he gives misguided advice that is worthless for the most part. Most annoying is his almost angry assertions that anyone (else other than him) who gives advice on longevity is a charlatan or fraud. There are, in fact, excellent books out now by Dr. Mark Hyman, Casey and Calley Means and Dr. Peter Attia on longevity that have in depth and meaningful well-researched advice supported by science. Don’t bother reading this book.

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Compassionate but accurate account of a southern working class upbringing

Revisado: 07-28-24

Inspirational along the lines of “Educated” but much more focused on the cultural and socio-economic issues in the southern white working class. Worth reading to understand the difficult life he and others have led and uplifting to the point of tears in many instances for how he pulled himself up by his bootstraps but with credit to the help he received along the way. Highly recommended.

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Important Read for All Americans

Revisado: 07-27-24

A good history lesson focusing on all the communist revolutions on this planet and a few that were defeated. If you have wondered what is happening in this country, read this book and you’ll go ah ha! Now I get it! Then you can choose sides.

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An Epic Novel of the Vietnam Era in US history

Revisado: 03-09-24

The novel follows the sometimes excruciatingly difficult and sometimes joyous life of a young nurse, who served in Vietnam and the aftermath of her service. If you lived through that troubled time in the US, the extraordinary detail brings it all back. If not, it is a vital part of US history seen through the eyes of one woman but portraying the many incongruent facets of that time accurately. It should be required reading for young people who believe themselves to be the center of the universe.

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Touching Story

Revisado: 09-15-19

An amazing story contrasting an upper middle class American teenager with an impoverished African young boy, following their exchange as pen pals over the years. Keep a box of Kleenex handy for the ending.

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Waste of money

Revisado: 04-02-19

This was a thinly disguised anti-Trump “fiction” story about his “conspiracy” with the Russians. Don’t waste money on this annoying book.

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