Craig M.

Repeat on repeat

Revisado: 07-24-23

The book is basically the same two graphs on loop front to back. If anyone he sent it to didn’t respond it’s because it’s terrible writing about his axe grinding and pitiful self-aggrandizing . What a waste of time.

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Not his best

Revisado: 09-14-21

I’ve read all but this. Maybe it was the listening. But this is not his strong writing. In fact- it’s not really strong. Loooooove many others. Liked it. Didn’t love it.

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How is this a classic?!

Revisado: 09-10-21

Went 35 years not getting around to this. Glad I didn’t invest the time for actually reading it.

For a book that is about 95% dialogue it’s pretty snoozy. And then! About 70% of that 90 is shitty pillow talk. “I love thee, rabbit.” “I love thee more, Inglais.” “No I love you more, rabbit.” “Whenst shall we marry?” “We are married.” “Oh— I have a bridge to think about.”

Earnest Hemingway is inspiring. Like how Kevin Costner is inspiring. As in- if you’re this bad, (really awful) but you still get legendary status, anybody can.

Really. Anybody could write this.

Also, The performance was pretty effin lazy.

I need to go squirt some bleach in my ears.

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Inciting sober assessment of and for all

Revisado: 11-09-19

Malcolm Gladwell is one of the greatest critical thinkers of all time, I’d wager. And his reading voice is an absolute delight. He’s the only audio book or podcast I don’t speed up to 1.5 because I don’t want it to end.

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Excellent check in

Revisado: 10-27-19

Revealing the tangible affect of toxic stress is important. Though I have my own brand of stress as a solo operator of a small business and I subject myself to frequent 17 hour days, the rewards are evident in my station in life. Though my business is feast and famine I forget about my beginnings as a cook constantly in the weeds and my ice cream time constantly in the weeds and my dishwasher days constantly in the weeds. I sympathize with the notion “I get to leave this place”. I always knew those jobs were weigh station placements. They provided books during university and part time income for some discretionary. I never thought it was permanent. The desperation and hopelessness exposed in this examination of everyday life is harrowing. If this book doesn’t offer you some empathic reflection for those you encounter in your day-to-day, you’ve never known ‘down and out’. And it’ll be tough to reach you ever at all. This book is an important reminder for those in the weeds and those out, of those out are receptive to it. Great work.

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Indispensable

Revisado: 10-25-19

I believe that it can’t be overstated how important this book is in identifying our own contributions to our culture and how to ameliorate those contributions to be consistently and predictably beneficial.

Dr. Kendi shows humbling vulnerability, self-awareness and reflection of ineffective behavior as a stanchion to effective self-progress that invariably progresses cultural progress. He pairs this self-awareness and vulnerability with his vast historical knowledge tastefully and strategically and creates a method we can all use to bolster b h individual helpfulness that will overflow into a well-developed toolset that will further justice and support to our culture, communities and personal relationships.

As a white father of a mixed daughter and a husband to a Black woman, I am consistently developing my empathic tools and questioning the non-parallel trajectories of their lives have when compared against my own absence of hurdles along similar paths that I might be a better ally and be consistently aware of those differences. ‘Stamped’ was an excellent introduction to Kendi. “how to be an anti racist” is indispensable.

Now that I’ve listened at work, I need to read it and think it through more thoroughly.

Thanks I.X.K.

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Fantastic

Revisado: 10-23-19

Excellent break down of such a nebulous and incomprehensible faction of our culture that I’m aware of but knew absolutely nothing about. This is important information about a these times when the pace is so quick that history blurrs with the present.

I’m a late 30’s millennial and am more equipped to live a life in the 1500’s. I designed that way. The sensationalism and spectacle of the internet isn’t for me but it being for most effects me every day in ways that can’t be ignored. This book opened my eyes to the posturing that surrounds me, and the ways it effects me, affects my mood, safety and future.

Well written. Easy on the ears. Agreeable in every way.

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