Scott T. Hards

Great content; mediocre narrator

Revisado: 08-21-22

The content of the book is not only historically fascinating, but a welcome pushback against all of the modern finger-waggers who would have you believe that even a single drop of alcohol is going to wreck your life. Moderate drinking in social situations has vast social benefits, and if you haven’t experienced them for yourself, you’re missing some of the best that life has to offer.
The narrator, unfortunately, is obviously reading throughout the presentation, as evidenced by his constant over-enunciation of prepositions (especially “to”) and other short words which should be slightly slurred/blurred into following words when speaking naturally.

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A man I have never met feels like a close friend.

Revisado: 03-07-22

This is the most engrossing autobiography I’ve ever read. Granted, I’m a geek and was familiar with many of the properties that Straczynski has been involved with. But I think huge numbers of people would deeply enjoy this book even if they were not. I guess I shouldn’t be too surprised that a great writer is still a great writer even when he’s writing about himself. Inspiring and highly recommended. Especially if you hate Nazis.

Having Peter Jurasik, who played a popular character on Babylon 5, do the narration was a brilliant choice. He does a wonderful job.

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A brilliant and actionable work

Revisado: 09-25-21

Despite the somewhat bland title, this book is packed with insightful and, most importantly, actionable information about how all aspects of time, from the time of day to the time of life, affect our lives. Absolutely recommended.

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Great tree metaphors abound, but the humans are dull

Revisado: 04-10-21

Definitely a love/hate experience for me. Make no mistake, the prose is genius level, and the construction of the story is unique and elegant. Unfortunately, however, the story is not very compelling. This is definitely more about the journey than the destination.. Worse, all of the human characters are flat, nearly incomprehensible in their motivations, and ultimately abandoned by the author in deeply unsatisfying ways.

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Simultaneously uplifting and heart wrenching

Revisado: 11-17-20

Mo’s heavy accent takes a bit to get used to, but his narration of his own material is authentic and passionate. I’ve read many books on the theories behind human happiness and he doesn’t really uncover anything new, but it’s packaged pretty well. The final chapter, where he gives his views on why he thinks there is a “designer” behind our universe stands out in a bad way, however, when he relies on horribly inaccurate and long-discarded metaphors about evolution (a monkey with a typewriter couldn’t turn out a novel) that shows his fundamental misunderstanding of how evolution works. Otherwise, it’s a fine work and the story of the tragedy of his son is something we all can learn from.

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“One of the most important English-language novels” <- Nope!

Revisado: 01-30-20

There’s little to be said about this book that hasn’t already been written. Read elsewhere if you want to learn more about the ridiculously overrated content. Just don’t waste your time on it if you think you need to read it to be “well-rounded” in your literary experience.

Probably the only book I have ever read where entire paragraphs could be deleted at random without affecting the quality of the work whatsoever.

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Great content, but repetitive. Find a summary.

Revisado: 01-06-20

The content of this book is something everyone on this planet should be aware of and appreciate. Understanding cognitive bias is a key to success in life and business. But the book drags on with many examples of the same thing over and over, so finding an abridged version, or online summary of the same material is recommended, unless you want to spend the 9 hours here.

Ms Mercant's narration is incredibly perfunctory and unemotional, to the point that you could get something probably 90% as good having a computer voice read the text. There were even a couple of places where it's clear the authors were attempting humor, but she completely failed to change the mechanical drone of her narration, making for rather awkward sounding passages. Even in scholarly non-fiction like this, the narrator needs to understand the author's point and intention better.

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Fascinating story marred by poor audio production

Revisado: 01-06-20

Bloom's account of the remarkable devotion and love that kept the Iridium satellites in orbit is well-written and fascinating. But I have to mention that of the 170+ titles I've listened to from Audible, this is easily the worst-produced recording I've heard. The audio is badly marred by dozens of clumsy edits where it's clear that the producer and/or narrator didn't bother to confirm the pronunciation of some proper noun before recording, and then went back in and "fixed" it later. It's quite distracting. Full sentences or paragraphs should be rerecorded in situations like these, not individual words or phrases. It's nearly impossible to reproduce the audio quality of the original, and this really shows badly on this recording.

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Fantastic content, mechanical narrator

Revisado: 07-26-19

Walker's book is phenomenal despite a lot of what's said here being what should be called "common sense" at this point, but he drives the point home extremely well. One is forced to imagine how much better a place the world would be if we came to our senses as a species about how we sleep.

I simply didn't care for the narrator. Despite many passages where it's clear the author is being playful or joking, he never changes his machine-like reading style. Certainly non-fiction doesn't need the kind of flair and characters that fiction does, but one can do much better than this.

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Not for Buddhism beginners

Revisado: 12-24-18

I believe I first heard about this on the 10% happier podcast and dove in. Yikes. Chapters alternated between being deeply thoughtful and idea-provoking, and being utterly inaccessible to someone like myself who has no focused study of Buddhism yet. Some passages almost felt like they’d be written with a random word generator, but this reflects my unpreparedness for the material more than its quality. The author’s narration of his own work is quite good, but you may want to try 1.25x playback.

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