Theresa A.

Politically Motivated and Therefore Shallow

Revisado: 08-11-24

Oh, i was really liking this, but I don't trust any analysis from people that say "cancel culture" and spread that myth. That's a political myth, when you're discussing Orwell, you don't trot out current NewSpeak and act like it's just natural science and identified taxonomy of our natural environment. This is absurdly ironic. Stop melting smart people's brains. "Cancel Culture" was a term introduced to the public from the right wing, who notoriously has tried to and has been successful at censoring Hollywood and media from day one. When the public started to have a collective voice with social media and started expressing dislike for entrenched rapists in public culture, that is when the conservative media coined "CANCEL CULTURE".

Really disgusting behavior from this Michael Sheldon guy to trot this out like it needs no explanation or context, as if he's a narrator for Big Brother. Conservatives never stop being ironic, they never stop assaulting us with their stupidity. They heap labor on the rest of us continually.

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Absolutely fantastic!

Revisado: 05-06-23

This is outstanding, and maybe underrated. I don't see much about this book. I keep listening to it, and will do more research in the future on who the writers are. meaning more about them. I've had this audio book for awhile, and a long time ago I bought a physical copy to read along, which I do sometimes. Actually maybe I got the physical copy first and was joyed when I found the audio, now I can't remember.

You know they make you write out a review if you want to put stars. I really don't have anything cogent to say.

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Great narration.

Revisado: 04-28-23

Very good performance of this classic work. I'm only writing the review for the audible performance.

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Great narration.

Revisado: 03-29-23

Really good reading performance.. He really does this text justice, and has that perfect texture.

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Absolutely fantastic!

Revisado: 03-28-23

A wow! This is a must read book. Will this ever not be topical? I hope so, but that time is not now. The history around this novel is fascinating and worth the retell every few years, it's quite fresh.

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Great narration.

Revisado: 03-10-23

People that work in business outfits should read this book,, whether in a "creative" context or not.
It's creatives all the way down.

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Review on narrator.

Revisado: 01-30-23

This is a great narrator! Don't think twice about picking this one up. It's very clear, the worst are emphasized properly, not over the top.

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Thank you so much

Revisado: 08-10-22

I'm 51 and had no idea who this was.
A picture of this this book was posted in a book club I belong to. I saw the title, and immediately went to audible where I save credits for these special occasions.

Now, I have this new kindred spirit in my life, I love you Jeanette McCurdy. She speaks to all who were non-entities to the only people who had the access to make or break our psyches and spirits.

Jeanette, you are a writer. Thank you so much for this.

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Horrifyingly Stupid, Astonishingly Incompetent

Revisado: 12-29-18

This is scary. The fact that there is someone who would write a book this lacking in logic, and there are people giving it more good reviews than not, is unsettling to say the least. Even the top review that said it was "disappointing" seems to be clueless to its real deficits. *I am begging anyone that thinks this is a good book to understand that if you think this- you have gigantic blind spots in your thinking and reasoning skills, and should seek out some genuine critical thinking instruction.* And you wouldn't even need an advanced course on critical reasoning skills, just basics.

Citing studies does not in itself mean anything. The studies must be relevant to what the point is, and the study should prove something the author is talking about in no uncertain terms. There are also lots of criteria to name in studies so that we are somewhat familiar with it, like sample sizes and if there is conflicting research, other normal things that a functioning mind would need to evaluate, or be persuaded.

One horrifying bit that I remember is the correlation he props up about people *fearing* they would get heart disease. He says a study showed that people *fearing* heart disease had more cases of heart disease than people who did not fear it.

If your mind does not pose to you twenty questions about this assertion, or at least a couple of major ones, it's not doing you any services.

The author does not address any logical question that would arise from this, he states that as if it's supposed to mean something to a person, or as if he knows exactly who is going to read this book. For one thing, that I should not have to mention, people that feared heart disease probably had a couple of things going on. 1. family history 2.eating habits known to be associated with clogged arteries. He doesn't mention WHY the sample group of people had a fear of heart disease. (How many in the sample group? Who knows! ) Dawson goes in to no detail he just trots that out like we're supposed to learn something from it, and people that like this book are just fine and dandy with this. It's scary. It scares me. So people are reading this, and thinking, sure, that sounds fine... So basically Dawson either is not bright, or he's an out and out charlatan. Someone should use him and his material and write about what is wrong with this area of popularity that dances on the outside of science altogether, but is treated like it's our new understanding of science. There are kids on youtube that could do this. Kids. Maybe I'll contact some channels and see if they will review this and his other book The Genie in your Genes. At least click the one star reviews and read those.

Frankly, I'm not sure how we hold our civilization together with people walking around thinking this is a good book, not that we're doing that grand of a job, civilization wise. I'm a busy person, I don't want to spend another second on this trash. I actually believe the premise he was attempting to assert, I'm not here to get angry about the topic, at all.

I wonder how many people will actually repeat the garbage that studies have proven (or the wonderfully nebulous, "studies show"... ) people that fear heart disease are more likely to contract it, as if that's cause and effect? Why even put it in here if it's just a loose correlation that can be explained because their fear is based on them being a real candidate for heart disease? That is not what he was implying. Just absolute nonsense, charlatan gibberish.

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