Billy Lange

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Revisado: 10-18-24

Shannon Kent: sailor, SOF linguist, polyglot, prospective PhD psychologist, and mother. May she Rest In Peace and hope that her dedication to service is an inspiration to all young women.

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Absolutely tragic

Revisado: 02-05-23

Absolutely tragic yet the irony is not lost on me as I type this on my cobalt-lithium powered phone. The Congolese deserve better, and I hope the book gets out, and the author be awarded for his investigative journalism. The only thing I can do is to not get sucked into the EV’s & technological craze as if that does anything for the exploited children, and the indignity the Congolese are suffering. Truly depressing and eye-opening.

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Great read.

Revisado: 10-20-21

I’ve seen the show, and the book added more context which helps solidify the characters well. As for the narrator, he did fine. I’m such an audiophile that I’m not perturbed by a male narrator impersonating a female character.

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Worth a Read

Revisado: 11-15-20

Donald Rumsfeld, author/narrator, is an accomplished man who I didn’t like, but I can respect the positions and duties that he occupied especially as Sec of Def under President GWB. I can understand why he did what he did given the circumstances, and it’s a far cry from what the media was feeding me (which probably explain my dislike for him). Thank you sir for you service.

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Somewhat useful but...

Revisado: 01-14-19

Somewhat useful but I didn’t like the infantile language used by the author. Seems like this book is meant for moms trying to explain how the gut works to their kids than anything to be taken seriously.

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An okay book

Revisado: 07-27-18

As a future ER practitioner, I wanted to learn from those who went before me which is why I picked up this book. This book was a personal account of Dr. Austin's time in the ER and how he was able to manage his work/life balance while avoiding compassion fatigue or being terrible husband/father. I learned quite a bit and I intend to implement them for my life. I would give the story more points but the book read like a journal than a composite work, but I'm rooting for him and his family as they enter the next phase of their life.

The narrator did an okay job. His pace seems quickened though it may be his normal pace. As for his impersonation of the characters, the female one annoys me a bit and there wasn't that much variation in tone or pitch in certain scene where there more than 1 female. I didn't mind his mispronunciation of medical terms as I have trouble with it myself.

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I tried

Revisado: 06-27-18

The narrator, who I assume is German, did a very good job and his accent provided a sense of authenticity to the rambling of this madman named Hitler. I wanted to understand the man and I figured the best way to do so was to read his thought processes in Mein Kampf. At first, I was intrigued but then it became repetitive; the Jews are terrible people, everyone sucks but the Master Race, here a list of things to do to perfect the Race, Marx/Communism bad, politicians are spineless cowards, military good, and might makes right. I have 5 hours left and I'm trying to finish it but its more of a bother than anything else.

Update: I finished the book. It took a while, but it is done. I found that the first and last two-three hours of the book were informative and it provided insight to why Hitler felt the way he did. The driving force of his thought process was pride, not hatred. Don't get me wrong, he hated the Jews, but it was his pride that got the best of him, and he was evoking other Germans to be proud of who they are, what they've accomplished, and not to be deceived or belittled by the Jews, other nations (he also hated the French), or traitors within ranks. This was a historic read for me because I'm not the type of people Hitler favored, but at least I know why this infamous figure did what he did.

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A work of love

Revisado: 06-27-18

This book was a work of love. It is obviously the author loves his family as he described the details of how it came to be, their trials and tribulations, and their continuing struggles. While this served a purpose for the defining moment of the story, it was a bit excessive, almost obsessive, which caused me to drop a star. I got a sense that the author wrote the book for catharsis and it understandable given what his family went through.

The other half was a call-to-arms to reevaluate our mental health system in the hospitals, courts, and prisons. The author accomplished this by giving a comprehensive review of the history of mental health system from its early concept in Europe to now. This part I found interesting as a medically inclined person.

The narration was decent; nothing more to say about that.

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