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Wonderfully weird but unexciting

Revisado: 11-09-21

Michael at his best with the weird but ultimately i just didn’t care about the characters, the world or the quest.

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Pro-Authoritarian Story

Revisado: 10-29-20

This is the worst story that I also kind of love. Great ideas but terrible story. It's so unrealistic in 1,000 different ways. It really treats _all_ of the non-main characters as immature children incapable of doing anything for themselves but requiring wise rulers to do everything for them. It depicts an authoritarian's imagination for how wise rulers are required to manage the masses. No matter that the rulers are human children people too. <sarcasm>Hail centralized government. Hail dictators. We the people are unworthy of your kind, intelligent guiding hand. We could not even wipe our own bottoms if you weren't there to tell us to do so.</sarcasm> If you respect the intelligence and autonomy of humans, this book is not for you. If you want to assure yourself that society needs authoritarian leaders, then read on!

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Should have liked it

Revisado: 04-03-19

I wanted to like it much more than I did. And I should have liked it much more than I did. I have read almost every popular-economics book out there, but this one was unfortunately one of my least favourites. Sometimes the author is just kind of dumb about the reasons behind some things. He seems to forget that people are humans, to the strong detriment of his reasoning. I think also the book lacks enough narrative. As it is it is quite dry.

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My favourite hook

Revisado: 01-31-18

I can't possibly praise this book more. It is literally my favourite book of all time.

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Best book out of the last 30

Revisado: 11-09-17

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Super interesting. I learned so many things! Very different from anything I'm familiar with

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I had no idea

Revisado: 10-25-17

The book was really interesting for the first 66% or so. I'm not a linguist so the ideas were fresh to me. But I did get a bit bored at the end with the long stretches of explanation about the ways in which specific words morph slowly and accents and such. Probably could have been shorter but publishers hate short books

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Not ideal for more experienced travelers

Revisado: 07-24-17

Reading this mostly just reiterated things I already new. I would recommend this book more for newer travelers.

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Best collection of short stories ever!

Revisado: 12-12-16

If you like your science fiction with some interesting science, then this collection is for you!

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Good content, but too much mysticism

Revisado: 04-19-15

The message that you should eliminate is a good one and the advice on how to do it and specifics are good. The author should also address the second step which is to stop further accumulation, but that's okay. But my main complaint is that the author talks too much about mysticism and spiritualism.

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Great ideas, too many different plots

Revisado: 04-18-15

The story jumps around too much, but it's still a very exciting story filled with a lot to think about.

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