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Too religious for my taste

Revisado: 10-07-24

She even quotes bible verses, if you are not a christian you won't get anything out of this because her whole point is to lose weight thru prayer and praying to her specific god. Also, the narration is all over the place, some chapters she's soft spoken and gentle, some others she's rushing and over acting and her voice goes from deep to high pitch, it felt like every chapter was narrated by a different person. Also, audible doesn't let you refund unless you pay their membership so now I'm stuck with this title on my library that I'm never going to finish. What a waste.

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Excelent performance, excelent message

Revisado: 02-20-23

The narrator does a fantastic job at bringing Neville's personality back to life, I felt as if I was right there in the auditorium listening to a Neville's lecture live.

I've been investing my thoughts ever since I listened to this, and in 2 short days I've seen dramatic changes including getting my noisy neighbors to quiet down by mentally affirming "all my neighbors are quiet and harmonious", and letting go of anger and pain in my heart by imagining "what would it be like if I had joy and peace?". I have prooven by my own experience that this really works.

I highly recommend this book and this narration, they are both fantastic.

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Carrot field: a hobbit wanna be minus the excite

Revisado: 11-28-22

I gave up at chapter 18, almost 9 hours into the book.I don’t get why we are going on this journey. For the first 3 chapters nothing happens, we are just going around doing daily chores and talking to people. The rabbit protagonist doesn’t even have a goal. He’s sad he never got to meet his father but that’s it, he’s not doing anything about it. Then a badger shows up and proposes an expedition and the rabbit goes along because… he’s curious, I guess? He doesn’t have a goal, there’s no real reason for any of this to be happening.

Who is the target audience for this book? Kids won’t relate to the rabbit, he's too old, he already went to college and all. But the story is too simple to appeal to grown ups, so who is this for, really? I don’t get it.

The rabbit is useless, he has no backbone and no special abilities. He can’t fight, he’s clumsy, he has very little knowledge about the world he lives in, everything scares him, yet he is supposed to be some sort of prophesied Chosen One who will take down evil. Why him? The fox is much more interesting: competent, strong, knowledgeable, has psychic powers, has a fiance waiting for him at home, and,the bad guy is after him. Make him the main character instead! Although I didn’t like the nasal and slow voice the narrator gave him for the audible version, it didn’t fit his character at all.

The book repeats itself over and over, the same sequence plays out in every chapter: They are walking alone in the forest and get spooked by eyes in the dark, the eyes turn out to be an ally who has been following them and wants to help them, they go along with the new guy and he offers a feast in their honor and allows them to stay in his castle (they all have castles).They talk for a while, remind the rabbit of how special he is and get sent on their way to do the same thing over again.

Every time new characters are introduced they are cloaked with a hood hiding their faces.
The party never proactively gets new info or new tools, they stumble into them at every point. They encounter zero obstacles during their journey, they never struggle for anything. Everyone they meet is a friend or becomes one right away. They are handed whatever they need to carry on their journey for free, at some point they are given a magic wine that erases the need to eat. How convenient.

Everyone keeps talking about the bad guy as this threatening Evil force that spreads across the land but…the bad guy isn’t doing anything! He’s not attacking anyone, he’s not oppressing the people nor destroying the land or anything. The “good guys” lost a war to him a while ago and now they want revenge, but the so-called Evil guy isn’t doing anything to them. He only starts teasing them from a distance after they set out after him, not before. Not really an epic journey if the epic journey could have been avoided in the first

place, just leave the guy alone chilling in his tower! He’s not bothering anyone.
Then, out of nowhere, in chapter 13 the whole story becomes an allegory for fascism? The village turns into a Big Brother type of dystopian town, we sit around hearing old people talk about taxes and food rations and fascism propaganda, I don’t get it. What was the point of this? Are you telling me the evil guy influenced the government to become a totalitarian regime? You don’t need an evil dark lord for that.

I will say, tho, the narration is nice and I do like the prose and the writing style. I just wish the rabbit had a better reason to do what he does other than he was bored and an old guy told him to.

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Law of Attraction disguised as Science

Revisado: 11-23-22

DNF@chapter 4

I was excited about this book, I'd seen some interviews with the author and thought his ideas were interesting. But the more I listened the more I realized this was another Law Of Attraction book similar to "Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself", by Joe Dispenza. Both authors numb you with pseudo-science, traumatize you with jarring "real" life stories, claim to be expert in their fields, but after all the sciency stuff is done and you are ready for some real advice, they throw at you the old "thoughts create reality" stuff. Their solution to horrific trauma, overwhelming stress and general life disappointment? Meditation, forgivess, compassion, visualization. I don't need 18hrs plus to get the same advice I can get for free on a 10 min video on youtube.

The part were it lost me was in Chapter 3 when they were discussing epigenetics, and a so called Doctor said that "unlike evolution, that proposes random changes on the individual...." WHAT!!! Evolution has never proposed that! they are called adaptations for a reason! And pardon me, I've listened way too many christian apologetics to know that anyone who loves to talk about epigenetics has a hidden agenda.

Can't believe I fell for it again. All I wanted was a fresh perspective on today's current societal issues and got another "you make yourself sick with your thoughts." Also, this book leans too heavily on ideas like childhood trauma, inherited traumas , family constellations and the likes. I used to be a huge LOA follower back in the day, I recognized a quack when I see one.

I'm glad I got this for free with my audible free trial or I'd be feeling scammed.

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