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Misstitled

Revisado: 01-27-25

90% of the book covered the history of the Pinochet regime and the lives of the perpetrators and not the kidnappings, investigation, and trial. A more accurate title would have been The Life and Times of Ramon Guerra.

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Anthropologist or Socialist?

Revisado: 09-24-24

This seemed like pet theory looking for an audience. His take on work was particularly disturbing, given the rising generations listless existence, lack of purpose and direction. Just because one groups ill formed notion of the purpose of work, doesn’t mean that there are not any redeeming effects or qualities that it can develop in a person. When he indicated he was involved in occupy Wall Street, it undermined any credibility for me. Seeking change through destructive means isn’t a path that helps anyone. It is just a different kind of violence.

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Interesting Read

Revisado: 07-15-24

If you like Think and Grow Rich, you likely enjoy this work of Hill’s.

Performance was given 2 stars because the publisher/author has inserted comments on an ongoing basis through out the book. Part of this was simply repeating exactly what Hill had written. Just not helpful for me and the other comments were not very helpful for me (some of them distracting from not only the flow, but also the understanding of what Hill wrote by focusing on a specific application of the principle shared vs. allowing the reader to think through what the principle means and how to personally apply it).

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Description is super misleading

Revisado: 06-20-24

Many of the cases were new to me and there are interesting facts, but as you can imagine with 50 cases being covered this is like a book case cliff notes.

The biggest disappointment was that only about 10% of the cases were in actual national parks. A national forests and national monuments are not national parks. Some of the disappearances didn’t even have anything to do with a wilderness setting. It also didn’t cover other parts of the what the description boasted, like exploring park safety.

One other pretty annoying construct was that the information in the book was very poorly organized, causing a lot of repetition and unnecessarily lengthening the book. When there are going to be common possible outcomes for all of the cases, that material should be coved in a single chapter that lays out what those are and then each case can refer to most likely possibilities explored or proffered in the investigation. To get the same material 50 times, with a lot of it being the exact same language is not helpful.

For a few of the cases that particularly interested me, I did a bit of searching online and there was almost always more detail than provided. This book would have been better with fewer cases, more detail and significantly better organization.

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Emotion in voices

Revisado: 06-08-24

The voices could have a little more emotion during emotional parts and be more expressive.

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Leftist Politics without any substance, opinions and miss information. Not worth your time.

Revisado: 03-28-24

Someone who was perhaps in the limelight @one point and now needs to feel like he is still relevant. From extreme right to extreme left. No real sources for key information. This should be classified as fiction.

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Characters were not thinking in this one.

Revisado: 06-06-23

The lack of logic in this one was pretty significant. There were sources of information that were not pursued and the fact that they didn't come to the conclusion that it had nothing to do with an infatuation and was related to the pursuit of medical school and knowledge, when that had been the entire focus of her adult life is beyond me. It was pretty self evident shortly after the murder occurred. This one didn't quite live up to the previous editions.

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Emotional and Real

Revisado: 10-03-22

I learned a lot. It makes me more able to look at others in a different light.

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The wrong Simon

Revisado: 02-19-22

Don’t get me wrong here, Simon Vance is one of my favorite narrators (The Great Divorce, Robinson Crusoe, Dune). Simon Prebble has so defined the Ian Rutledge character that the character seemed to have changed and something was lost. Not sure what motivated the change in performers, and I hope we can get Simon Prebble and Ian Rutledge back in the next book.

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Not Really Objective History

Revisado: 11-13-21

The author spends a lot or time upfront trying to convince you that he is writing an objective comprehensive history about Brigham Young, which usually means that the person is worried about whether you are going to believe what they are trying to convince you is true. Then he uses qualifiers like probably, or appears to, if only subconsciously (How could he possibly know), etc. From my perspective this is little more than a thinly vailed expose, vs. a history of his life. I'm sure there are facts in the book, it is just hard to tell where they end and the author's opinion starts. It is so intertwined and muddled it is impossible to sort out. Some of his sources are not credible either, like using the testimony of a murderer who is seeking immunity to bolster claims against Brigham more than strains credibility. It really reads more like a novel than a historical biography. The sad thing about this is that just because he has a PhD and wrote a lot of pages, some will take what is written at face value.

I really thought I was going to get a reasonable approach to this, but this feels a lot like the many accounts that have been written trying to discredit Joseph Smith. Maybe this is a series of books that will now move onto taking a poke at John Taylor, Wilford Woodruff, etc. It is sad that we can't get history without all the opinion and the selective highlights that are designed to give a specific negative impression of Brigham Young. Just sad really.

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