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Excellent from Start to Finish!

Revisado: 11-02-19

Reporter is a fascinating look into investigative journalism, the news business and Seymour Hersh's long career has spanned. Amazing stories about how he got the news and the sources. Written with seriousness and a good dose or dry humour. Very informative and entertaining book. Read beautifully and produced greatly. The book is also a great resource to building a good sense of what is wrong or right with the news today and how can we a build a healthy sense of skepticism when we consume the news. A 10 out of 10 book!

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A great & thought provoking book from start to end

Revisado: 02-16-18

A very well researched and very well written book. While the subject matter of the book is relevant and necessary for all to hear and absorb, its analysis is very illuminating and applicable to other issues being debated today (without taking away anything from the books message). Specifically, how Carol Anderson looks at society's attitudes and the gears of power - from local governments and neighborhood home associations to the courts, and especially, the supreme court. It really forces the reader/listener to examine how they think, what are the basis of their positions.

Overall the book is very well put together, it has great flow, The language, the paragraphs and the chapters are all very accessible. Lastly, Pamela Gibson does a great job reading it. Her tone, voice, flow and speed were all excellent.

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Great from start to finish! a follow up book plz!

Revisado: 05-20-17

Song Machine was a delight from start to finish! The stories in the book will have you looking up songs to try to hear what really went into them.

I can honestly say it has given me a new appreciation for pop music and what goes on to make it (said from a guy who loves his classic rock and enjoy a fair bit of rap music as well).

I should mention that while the book is excellent, I was worries at first that the lack of songs in the audiobook would leave me feeling short changed, but it didn't, and that's largely due to the excellent writing of John Seabrook and the even more superb reading/narrating by Dion Graham.

I played different parts of the book to friends and at parts they would laugh and other parts will be shocked of the chain of events that lead to the headlines we saw. And through it all the narrating is phenomenal!

Highly recommend the book!

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A book that will make you think and contemplate

Revisado: 03-16-17

"Money" is written from a historical perspective but certainly has some good analysis and interpretations of events and the broader course of history, with regards to money.
It certainly isn't a biography of those who amassed large sums of money, but more on the ideas, development, adoption and evolution of money.

Maryin will push how you see money and where it came from; he will challenge your conceptions using other disciplines -- like history, anthropology, political science, philosophy and even science to name a few -- as opposed to the usual vantage point of business, commerce and economics.

The book is very accessible in the way it's written, and moreover, it does employ interesting writing styles by way of analogies, narrating and story telling to dialogue pieces.
It also has a fair bit of misdirection -- so you may feel convinced until you read/listen on to the next part or chapter where you are equally convinced of the other side of the argument (and the arguments aren't necessarily simple or two sides, you find yourself juggling more multidimensional ideas at times). That kept me on edge at times but helps give a fairer picture.

Overall I loved the book and I would recommend it to anyone with a sense of curiosity and definitely to anyone who gets into conversations about money, politics, economics, "the debt", gold, the meaning of money and desires and their philosophy and other such lively topics.

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