Ethan and Lauren Gilkey

Important message

Revisado: 09-03-22

This book has an important message, but it gets repetitive towards the end. Also, the narrator mispronounces a lot of names that pop up frequently

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Very heady and hard to follow, but important

Revisado: 07-17-22

The author has good points, and they is important for understanding the current state of our culture. I think there was some over-generalization at times, but that is the nature of building a sweeping narrative going back to the beginning of recorded history. Also, this book is sounds like a PhD thesis. Easier reads are easier to grasp and make it through, but if you have the time and attention to give (I listened to it over the course of a few hours of lawn work and a long road trip), you'll be a lot smarter and find a very useful framework for discussion

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Everyone should listen to this book

Revisado: 01-02-22

Don't be a sucker. Don't blow off this book because he's skeptical. Take the red pill amd see how far the rabbit hole goes, and believe me, the rabbit hole goes deep. And the author is hardly a right-wing extremist. He has more critical words about Trump as he does complementary words

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Some good new arguments, a lot of emotion & rehash

Revisado: 05-08-21

This is a very deep and intimate book. If you are looking for a coldly rational book of apologetics, read Evidence that Demands a Verdict or Stealing from God instead. But this is very comforting and passionate, if not unimpeachable and tighly formatted

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We need this book

Revisado: 03-14-21

Every man should listen to this book, parent or not. The narrator has a good voice but he mispronounces a couple words and his intonation doesn't seem to match the content in a couple places

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Exhaustive

Revisado: 03-07-21

This is a great book and a must-read for anyone who really wants to know the truth.

The reason I give it only 4 stars for "Story" and "Performance" is there are multiple times when the different takes of the same sentence have been accidentally left in and it's rather dry in some places

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Some good information with an off-putting delivery

Revisado: 12-22-20

Oren does a good job reading this. There are some riveting (probably mostly true) stories in the book, with a few mostly vague pieces of advice sprinkled throughout. The stories give it a lot of flavor if that's what you're looking for, but the useful, actionable information could fit in a 10-page pamphlet.

The whole book has the feel of a dodgy YouTube pre-roll ad, with the author casually mentioning his vast amounts of wealth while promising to let you in on some big secret. His wealth is very impressive and inspiring, but he's a snob about it. One of the later chapters spends a lot of time looking down on people in rural North Dakota for drinking "microwave coffee" and shopping at Walmart.

The book also focuses on sales and business situations only, which is not implied by the title or subtitle. Some of the techniques may be applicable outside of the sales profession, but certainly not all.

I will not be revisiting, and may in fact return it since I am not in sales and this book left a bad taste in my mouth

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Very important book

Revisado: 12-06-20

Perfectly balanced, not preachy, should be completely uncontroversial. It needs a new edition as this book was published in 2000

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Lots of Christian strawmen

Revisado: 11-30-20

It has a lot of good tips and techniques and I think that we would all have better interactions with people if we all studied and learned these techniques. That being said, the authors either haven't talked to very many Christians, haven't talked with educated Christians, or are being dishonest in their portrayal of Christians. The narrator also has some difficulty pronouncing certain words, such as similarly. I would still recommend this book

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Interesting stories, really bad attempts at humor

Revisado: 07-27-19

The stories in this little book are great and well researched. But there is a lot of very unfunny, very forced, attempts at humor that ruin it. The guy reading it did well, but the other performers and sound effects in this recording are really, really annoying

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