Michael Richards

The reader and the wit of the author work well together to create an engaging listening experience.

Revisado: 01-19-24

This series is fantastic for those of us looking for an overview of various philosophical writers and there works. It also serves as a compass when we feel brave enough to dive into the full works. Very enjoyable to listen to.

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Closed Minded

Revisado: 11-06-23

The author goes in having already made up his mind, constantly ridiculing the various stories and beliefs before describing them. If you are a closed minded skeptic you’ll like this book. I’m not a believer but am open minded and willing to weigh the evidence. Not this guy. Hard to listen to.

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Boring

Revisado: 05-25-23

Interesting information but delivered in a long, dull way. The Q and A interview format is annoying and hard to listen to. Questions asked are repeated over and over in multiple ways, with many point’s belabored unnecessarily. I probably could have skipped large chunks and not missed anything.

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Too Detailed to Be True

Revisado: 05-17-23

It’s a nice story but far too detailed. Also there is really nothing supporting this long outlandish story except for this guy’s word. He paints himself as a hero but comes across like a narcissist. Reads more like a novel. Also the narrator’s voice, being the forceful type, sounds like he is shouting at times which got on my nerves after a while. I find it quite unbelievable and rather offensive to be told that advances like lasers and Kevlar were from aliens rather than our own ingenuity. Listen with an open mind but don’t believe everything you hear.

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Too Political

Revisado: 01-25-23

I couldn’t get through even the introduction before the author began ranting about Trump. I didn’t pick up this book to listen to a one-sided political debate.

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Deeply Flawed

Revisado: 01-18-23

Too simplistic. Too many details and too much evidence for many of these subjects is overlooked or glossed over, and little to no support is given for many of the author’s conclusions. Not recommended.

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Too Many Swearwords

Revisado: 12-29-22

Delightfully funny but everything is ruined by the huge amount of swearing, especially the F word. It’s like eating delicious ice cream, only to find roaches in the middle. It seems out of character, as though an editor told the writer to add them in later. It would be totally perfect if they were removed. If you have to swear then you aren’t intelligent enough to think of something better to say. It’s a sign of lazy writing. Real people—at least the ones I hang out with—don’t swear every other word.

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Interesting But Too Many Swears

Revisado: 12-29-22

I don’t mind some swearing but this is over the top…worse than Tom Clancy. I counted four in one sentence. There isn’t a clean page. I’m not a baby, but I’ve always seen swearing as indicative of a weak mind, and lazy writing. You don’t need 40 f-words per page to prove that your characters are gritty and hard boiled.

Other than that the story was great, the ending totally unexpected. My father fought in Vietnam, and died a few years ago after suffering 40 years from the effects of Agent Orange, so it meant something to me.

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Don’t Insult Your Audience

Revisado: 01-21-22

This is an important story and I learned a lot but had to stop listening for two reasons. First and foremost, the author spends way too much time on how stupid he thinks the whole world is for not knowing about the killing fields in Ukraine, even going so far as to call the entire USA a country of self absorbed isolationists. If you want to be listened to, don’t be constantly insulting your audience; we know we need knowledge…that’s why we’re reading your book. But we aren’t stupid.

However, the point I had to finally get off this runaway train was when he equated Martin Luther with Hitler because of his antisemitic views, and how shocked the author was when he learned the Nazis used Luther’s writings as justification for the murder of the Jews. The author descends into adolescent name-calling as he says that this shows what a horrible person this proves Martin Luther to be. It’s easy to spew forth hatred for the views of someone who has been dead for several centuries and can’t defend himself; much more difficult to try and understand them. Luther never called for the murder of the Jewish people, however much he disliked and distrusted them, and I doubt he would have condoned the conduct of the Nazis. In any case, it does no good to bring yourself down to this level of soul-poisoning hatred. It not only reveals the narrow-mindedness of the author, but it distracts from one of the single-most important lessons of the whole holocaust and killing fields story, which is to show what happens when hatred gets out of control.

The narrator was robotic and hard to listen to, but I could have dealt with it if not for the above reasons.

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Dry and Opinionated

Revisado: 01-10-22

As well researched as this book is, the execution is extremely dry and difficult to stay involved in. Also the authors seem to go out of their way to point out all the imperfections and mistakes made by the Americans in the trial, while extolling the virtues of the British system. Since the authors are British, it makes one wonder how accurate and unbiased this account actually is.

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