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Very entertaining and surprisingly humorous

Revisado: 12-03-24

I didn’t know what I was about to listen to and almost stopped about 5 minutes in because for some reason the voice recording is weirdly slow. I increased the speed to 1.25 and found it much easier to listen to.
Then I realized about 15 minutes in that I couldn’t stop listing and burned through it while doing chores.
Personable and realistic characters and a very down to earth love story along with magic and ghouls, oh my!

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Like a bag of very tasty chips

Revisado: 08-01-24

Couldn’t stop listening to Compelling characters, inventive magic and a great storyline. Big thumbs up!

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Super fun!

Revisado: 06-15-24

I thought this series would be light and frivolous, easy to exercise to, BUT it was so interesting I kept stopping what I was doing to listen. This is a compliment! It’s perfect for relaxed moments and driving. I found myself excited about getting time to listen.

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Informative, but painful to listen to

Revisado: 02-11-22

The reader for this book performs it like William Shatner. There are… pauses… all over… the place. Makes it very hard to parse the meaning of the book.

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A tribute to good rhetoric and confirmation bias

Revisado: 01-17-20

Choppy, loaded with insubstantial quotes and declarations, and supported by carefully abridged and neatly cherry-picked stories.

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Badly written, sparse ideas

Revisado: 08-06-14

I'll admit that I did get a few ideas from this book. The author proposes that small businesses fail because the founders only wanted to create the product, and not deal with internal organization, management, advertising and so on. And he proposes that one must organize one's business in a way that would be easily replicable and standardized, for efficiency and for brand unity. Both good ideas.

However, I didn't need to listen to eight hours of clumsily-written allegory to get that point.

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Who needs suspense?

Revisado: 05-17-12

This is not a mystery, nor a riveting or thrilling tale. Within the first two hours, the entire series of events leading to and including the murder are revealed. Within another hour, a full confession is recorded by multiple cops. That leaves another 7 hours of blunders and mishaps.

The "definitive account of a horrifying crime" is over before the book even starts.While this may be worthwhile to those who are interested in police procedure and the foibles of the legal process, this is neither a mystery, nor thrilling, and would have been better off as an article than a book.

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Philosophy, not science

Revisado: 05-16-12

Having just finished John Bradshaw's "Dog Sense" and hoping to find another good book on the evolution of dogs, I was excited to see all the reviews that said that "The Wolf in the Parlor" had too much science in it. Just my style.

Unfortunately, this book doesn't actually contain much science. It contains the coherent, well-written, and entertaining musings of a guy who does a little research and then spends a lot of time thinking about what it might mean. It's an enjoyable journey that touches here and there on actual science, but it's mostly speculation and anecdotes.

Did I enjoy this book? Yes. Did I learn anything from it? No.

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A little bit of science, a whole lot of hooplah.

Revisado: 12-14-11

This is a fairly well-written fluffy self-help book. If that's all you're looking for, then by all means, give it a listen.

If, however, you're interested in the actual "science of attachment" and any of the research conducted thereon, this is not the book for you. While it makes reference to some research, there is no attempt made to show that their claims are falsifiable, there are no alternate explanations made, and the entire book is filled with inaccurate sweeping statements. As a student of psychology looking for some interesting extracurricular reading, I was deeply disappointed. The only thing I can truly say I learned from this book is that you can make a lot of money by overgeneralizing a few experiments. If there is any heavy-duty evidence to back up any of their relationship cures, it certainly wasn't included in this book.

Even as self-help, it leaves a lot to be desired. Having someone tell you to "communicate more effectively" is about as helpful as a golf instructor telling you to "swing your club better," and the extent of their dating advice it that everyone should find one of those saintly, all-knowing, all-embracing miracles, the securely attached adult, who automatically does everything right in every relationship. I suppose they're great, if you can find one.

The reader was fine, but there were several jarringly mispronounced words scattered throughout the book.

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