Nick Van Bast

what a beautiful story!

Revisado: 04-16-25

The writer constantly builds this beautiful post apocalyptic world, while he lets his characters be themselves. I highly recommend it!

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Excellent Begining.

Revisado: 04-12-25

I liked the balanced sense of mystery, of discovery and action in the book. I do hope that the writer preserves the mix in his next book in the series.

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Excelente.

Revisado: 10-20-24

El libro es una breve historia del Anarquismo, desde sus inicios hasta hoy. La historia solo se concentra en las ideas de los protagonistas de este movimiento y no hace ninguna valoración ética o emocional sobre el tema. Así las ideas, las transformaciones y el estado del Anarquismo se presentan limpias y claras de ver al lector para su propio juicio y evaluación. Este libro es muy recomendable.

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Unintelligible.

Revisado: 10-15-24

This audio book delves in deep waters with terminology, names and phrases in Hindu. In fact 2 out of every 6 words are not English. The narrator has a terrible command and pronounciation of English, eg "beginnings" is pronounced "bé...ginins" or "with" it becomes "vit" at a such a degree, you can't understand If she's actually speaking English or something else. Probably all this terminology must be important, because she keeps repeating the same sounds, but you cannot distinguish individual syllables. She tends to accelerate when she hits Hindu words and all you hear is this "shupashupasham" and "dernighas". I guess one "shupashupasham" is different than the other "shupashupasham" and it's really important to remember, but you don't know why. The final straw is when I heard "dernighas" for the 100th time and I had no idea what I was hearing about 2 hours into the "shupashupasham".

It's pretty frustrating, because I really want to know about the subject. When you are about to use terminology of a foreign language, you make sure you find a person that can pronounce the words to you in such a way that you can understand it. It does not have to be exactly as the natives say it. That's why we call Paris "Pàris" instead of "Pawuí", or we say "Homer" instead of "Omiros".


Congratulations you just won my first 1 star rating!

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CNN opinions in a book version.

Revisado: 08-08-24

The book has a beautiful tittle, is well written, is well narrated and that's where the praise can reach to.

It has nothing to do with geopolitics, the reasons of why we are where we are, or any insights about our past or future.

The main argument of the book is that the US president (that has the same first name as Duck does) was bad and had no idea about anything. Then, the other president of a country where its people like vodka a lot, is bad and dangerous. Coincidentaly, exactly the same happens with the president of where the cute panda bears come from. Just dangerous people who want to destroy us and wise cool headed bureacrats in Washington, who the writer interviewed personally, and they affirmed that without themselves the world would end.

There's no mention of when the Soviets reached in the '70s asking for permission and help from the US to destroy the Chinese nuclear program and the Americans denied. No mention that Nixon sidelined Taiwan in favor of PLA. No mention that domestic US companies and the US military was upgrading the Chinese missile capabilities, or that Obama pushed Russia to China's arms. Or how Clinton blackmailed the west to import junk from China through GATT trade deal to the great detriment of everyone. Which has led to a diminished defense production capabilities for the US.

This book will enter in the long list of books praising the regime and will dissappear from human memory. Just as every other book of its kind has.

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A very long repetitive letter.

Revisado: 07-14-24

The author's arguement is a valid one. In a critical time such as this, people of faith and the Church that represents them need to participate actively in the forum of political discourse.

Unfortunately, in order to support his position he puts a lot of circular arguements eg the US is a big and powerful nation > therefore it was chosen by God > therefore the US is meant to lead the world and spread the gospel. On top of that, many of his arguements despite being repetitive and rhetorical, are not based in any substantive facts. eg. Uighur camps. His arguments are nullified by his method, since most of what he says cannot stand after a rigorous test of his positions. He tries to please his audience by repeating the same echoes of the echoe chamber his audience is accustomed to but this does not solve any problem in real life. Without any proper review or criticism of the past actions of the Church and its role to our current state of affairs.

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Amazing!

Revisado: 07-14-24

You enter an obscure world, far from our collective knowledge in the West. It's a work that you can reflect upon and has an eternal value.

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The Belarusian quality of UK's "special relationship".

Revisado: 06-21-24

Tadam! You wake up one morning and you realize that not only your country belongs to the Unimportant States Legue, but also that half your economy is foreign owned.

Well researced, sober, no drama lama arguements, no anti-anything, the writer goes ahead and explains everything that is wrong with the current economic setup of the British economy and the reasons why.

As an economic libertarian myself I loved this book. Not only because it exposes the mercandilist nature of our new economy, but also how it shows the entanglement between the multinational companies and the imperial state power, imposing themselves on others. While the CATO libertarians hail this type of economy as the triumph of Capitalism, the rest of us, residing in Europe, facing similar problems and issues we realize how lacking is the current libertarian theory to address delicate core problems of our existence. And at the end of the day homegrown state mercadilism is maybe better than the foreign imposed.

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An old, stale, failed scenario.

Revisado: 05-14-24

If you came here to embark on a journey of discovery about the effects of a modern nuclear war, this is not your book. The data is old, the science is shaky, the information is stale and the scenario depicted is absurd and obsolete. Plus, Annie Jacobsen's beautiful, warm voice, will make you despair with her very, but very slow narration.

Sadly, despite her sources, or her interviews, there's nothing a Fallout game aficionado, or a military history fan doesn't know already in here. The material is like a 50 year old Cold War can of food, suddenly opened on broad daylight. There's nothing about the emerging Asian nuclear powers of our day, just the good ol' bad guys. There's no new information provided, no advice for you personally, nothing that could make a difference to your survival, just scenes seen in a thousand movies since the 1980s about launch codes and the president. I cannot stress enough that this scenario makes no sense whatsoever, geopolitically speaking. A minor actor, goes off the reservation, without consulting anyone, its allies do not demolish this country first ,in order to avoid global annihilation, but instead, they all decide to suicide for the rocket man.

I can suggest this book only to teenagers who have never before been interested in the subject and want to begin somewhere.

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Obra maestra.

Revisado: 02-09-24

Ese libro es una biografía del escenario político de Galicia, de Yolanda Díaz, de podemos y sus dirigentes y un relato sobre la historia política de la ultima década. Está muy bien escrito, explica los eventos con detalle y claridad y evita rellenos y cosas que no son importantes. Una obra maestra para los historiadores del futuro.

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