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Starts off really interestingly, but then...

Revisado: 05-20-17

Great history, insights, etc, but around the middle everything becomes very long winded, maybe even redundant... All my take-aways were from the first half, the second half was taxing and either above my head, or had little that I found really interesting.

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Deep and complex, gets better as it progresses

Revisado: 03-22-17

Admitidly very long, but overall really interesting. The first 70-80% is slow, and contains long discussions of topics which later I couldn't remember why they were relevant, but the last 20-30% was packed with really insightful discussions on totalitarianism.

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Really interesting and well written.

Revisado: 02-07-17

I learned a lot, how ever some was above me. Overall it comes off as very fair, objective, and insightful.

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Memberberries

Revisado: 01-25-17

Pleasant nostalgia.. However it sucked that they used voice actors instead of the real people, kind of weird to listen to impressions of everyone.. Especially how stereotypical the impressions we're..

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Narrator's breaths weren't edited out

Revisado: 09-26-16

Useful info, well written, but the breaths weren't edited out. Between almost every sentence, there's a distinct loud deep easily editable breath. It got really bad in chapter 3, and by chapter 5 I just couldn't listen anymore and had to return it. This is a huge lapse in audio quality.

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horrible..... well written, but horrible stories

Revisado: 09-11-16

The book achieves what it set out to do, and really explains the German perspective. It's clear, exhaustive, in depth, etc.. But as everything about what the Nazis did, contains a lot of descriptions of atrocities..

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Not bad but long

Revisado: 03-16-16

Long at times. Michael Hayden's definition of torture is different than mine, but he seems to discount things as torture if they can be rigourously defined. Informative, and good recommendations and proposed philosophies moving forward.

Also, weird thing, the author can't pronounce H, always used a Y. maybe it's an American thing? Like, instead of Human, he says Yuman. Doesn't affect the book, just a quirk..

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Enlightening but long winded

Revisado: 10-20-15

Is there anything you would change about this book?

He gives many examples as evidence of his points, which is usually good but here it's distracting. All his examples are small micro stories done in a memoir'ish way. Too often the book reads as "... important point ... bunch of random sentences full of names of people I don't know ... short series of interesting events that I'm excited to learn about but instead we're going back to his long argument"

Any additional comments?

I suspect the book would have been better if rather than being organized as "point" then "examples", if it were instead written as case studies and lessons.

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Interesting for sure, but kind of boring

Revisado: 08-27-15

Any additional comments?

Every chapter is more or less the author proposing an idea/prediction, and then exhaustively defining and constraining the solution space for that idea. .e.g AI could be done via method X, which would enable A, B, C, D, but would exclude J, K, L, M, N, etc..

Except for that's done over an hour.

So, every detail is treated very well, and it's an interesting process, but near the end I just couldn't take it any more and had to skip parts. :)

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Slow

Revisado: 08-20-15

no thesis, unrelatably dated, no where close as good as his other works (Information, Chaos.) Just a long rant that things are now (in the nineties) faster than they used to be, with a lot of false narratives instead of evidence

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