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Incomprehensible to this EE

Revisado: 06-25-22

Incomprehensible, I'm only a rocket scientist, not a physicist. Maybe if you're a physicist this all makes sense. I'd call it a rambling kind of presentation. Not a simple explanation, and it starts out with Feinman's textbook and how great it is, not on the basic question, what in hell is a quasicrystal? Lost in the words.

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No answers

Revisado: 06-25-22

Nothing about leaky gut, gluten sensitivities, and other modalities. Dr. Gundry claims to have successfully treated this illness in some patients. So, was the author stuck on AMA modalities and treatments that dont work? It doesnt take much searching to find there are other alternative treatments. I know several doctors who claim this ailment can be overcome by diet, avoiding GMOs and Roundup which destroys your gut bacteria, etc. No mention. Perhaps this was a myopic author or written before modern times when such things were widely known? I was very disappointed to find the book just ends with essentially, we dont know what we are doing here and found no solutions. Yes, I get it that publicizing this illness and overcoming the beurocracy of know nothings is a great accomplishment. I do appreciate the efforts. But even writing a negative review of these modalities acknowledges the spirit of healing, that people dont have to just give up.

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Should be titled how to clean a toilet

Revisado: 12-03-20

It might be worth buying for the first part of the book, it starts off great. But it degenerates into trivia of how to clean your house with unhelpful hints and nothing to do with cleaning your mind. I already know how to clean a toilet and how to wash my hands. What was he thinking?

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scholarly

Revisado: 06-09-19

Its a good book about the race to understand the ribosome, which makes proteins inside the cell. However, I'm only a rocket scientist and EE, with a few books under my belt in life sciences. I managed to read the entire book without learning what a ribosome is. The author does describe it briefly at the beginning, but it took me some time into the book to get used to his fast reading pace, and I did not follow the complicated discussion of unfamiliar cell structures that he wizzed through. Worst of all, he did add a few comparisons of a ribosome to a car engine, which I felt was totally out to lunch. I see no resemblance. Overall its a very interesting read, maybe on a graduate level, but if you take the time to look up ribosomes before you listen to the book you can probably follow along just fine.

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horror story

Revisado: 05-13-19

Although this is by one of the present world's best writers, its basically a horror novel, not science fiction. There's a lot of fiction with almost no science. Or believable aliens. Its like the author doesnt really beleive in aliens. Not as good as his usual books. Written by an unbeliever, I would say. The ending seems kind of tacked together and doesnt really flow into the story. I guess they made a movie of this one, I havent seen it as I knew I wouldnt like it. I'm not into horror movies. His ideas about what aliens are like are more like hte 1930's than modern ideas. Bug Eyed Monsters.

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short but sweet

Revisado: 05-13-19

Its extremely short, one hour, but extremely well written. I was hoping for an autobiography, but it is a personality story instead. I would love to read a biography of madame Curie written in this fascinating style. I recommend it for anyone who wants to know the real Madame Curie, who was this woman. For what she did, that would take a longer book. Her birth name may have been mentioned but if so it got lost in the telling somewhere, it was Maria Sklodowska . Way too short for such a good writer, disappointing because it is so very good and ends so very soon.

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starts good

Revisado: 11-20-18

The book is perhaps ok, the first half is very informative. But I gave up on the second half, pedantic and academic discussions of one theory over another as to "human nature." The history is fine, the author's opinions as some important theory are myopic.

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Indeed good entertainment

Revisado: 11-11-18

I usually think of the stodgy english as confusing, stuffy, and supercilious. The War of the Roses, Cromwell, the Anglo Saxons, the Queen's dirty laundry, its all totally confusing to me, who lost track of England after they burned Washington in 1812 and left with their britches on fire. However, this author manages to unscramble all those years of Rule Britannia and even make some sense out of it. At least, to the extent anyone can understand the Brits. Dont give me any exams on English History, I still dont have a clue. But at least I understand the sequence of historical events instead of just a ball of wax in my brain. This author is very funny and keeps up very good humor to the very last, where as we all know the British always flag a little at the end. He is true to form there, I didnt give five stars as you can skip the end of the book. Its all about the dirty laundry of the Kings and the book has a little too much history of politics and the Lords, Wiggys, and The Common House of Plebians in it. Whoever would want to read a history of the Republican and Democratic parties in America? How dull. But I gritted my teeth and plowed on through the Parliamentary debates and plethora of laws passed so the Brits could "Keep calm and carry on." The Brits are so certain all their endless laws civilized the world they are fascinated with their parking tickets. I guess we showed them at Boston, I would like to have seen more on that tea crumples party in the book, but then, I'm a colonial myself. #Brittania #history #entertaining #clever #funny #Tagsgiving #Sweepstakes

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boring details

Revisado: 11-03-18

I didnt get far, skipped ahead and the same boring normal relationship details. You can hear this by asking anyone to describe their relationship or marriage. Just day to day life, I found no illuminating or liberating or even interesting events here. We met at a bar, we dated, we got married. We met at church, we dated, we got married. To me its that bad. To honor all the work the author put into it, the story does have heart, that was noticeable. Critics are despised for not being able to write but just writing criticism. I would like to just say nice things. Maybe I just gave up too soon after I got bored. They do say you have 20 minutes to capture your audience, after that, you're dead.

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great book

Revisado: 08-19-18

This is a rave book. I have some medical background but nothing to prepare me for this book. Its like I'm a robot being controlled by all my bacteria and parasitges, 100 TRILLION of them. Not a misprint. Its like Custers last stand. But luckily, unless youre dying of something, most of them are good guys protecting you. You are not alone! But your best friends are, well, critters.

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