Aaron Cammarata

Misapplied pseudoscience and marketing drivel

Revisado: 08-13-19

Another snake oil salesperson. "You guys I'm...like...SO excited to share this with you, and I want to start off by giving you a gift. It's something worth a lot of money...but it's free to you. When you're done with this book, go to my website and sign up for 31 *FREE* video coaching sessions with me. Simply put in your email address and me or my team will send you 1 short video coaching session every day for 31 days..."

I mean---that's the most manipulative way I've heard this year for "Sign up for our email spam list"

And the entire book is like this.

5 seconds is right - that's about how much content there is here. Ready, here it is:
Just do it.

It's kinda gross that people like this are successful, but hey, she got my money. Don't let her get yours.

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Snake oil - do not buy

Revisado: 08-13-19

I'm a fool. I didn't check the length before buying - would have known right away that you're not going to learn anything in 30 minutes.
There's nothing of substance here, and the strategies may have worked in the 90s, but not any more.
Author points you to WordPress, gives you a 3 minute lecture on marketing, tells you to slap your logo on someone else's white-label cheap plastic crap, and drop ship it to customers. Sweet! Free money.

To make money, write a book called "Passive Income" and let suckers like me buy it.

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Stop hatin' on the narrator

Revisado: 04-25-17

What made the experience of listening to Diaspora the most enjoyable?

This is a thinking person's sci-fi. Meaty as heck. Dimensions folded in on themselves. This is the sci-fi version of Brief History of Time

What does Adam Epstein bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

The narrator was fine - not sure why everyone says he did a terrible job.

Any additional comments?

Mostly wanted to offer a balancing opinion to all the negativity about the narrator - if you listen to the sample and it sounds OK to you, this is a great book.

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Other people's drug stories - are NOT funny

Revisado: 07-23-08

What a disappointment. I'm a huge fan of Lewis Black's political commentary, but this book is an attempt at a humorous autobiography.

Turns out listening to him rail on about the 60s, suburbia, and regale us with tales of his drug experiences...not funny. I didn't even finish it.

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Ugh.

Revisado: 11-08-07

Awful.

If you've ever seen a computer before, you know more than Mr. Brown, apparently.

Sorry. No good.

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Yaaaawn

Revisado: 09-28-05

This is two stories in one book, neither of which is given a chance to fully flower, or is inherently interesting. Skip it.

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What a whiner

Revisado: 07-28-05

I was interested in this for two reasons. 1) Like everyone else, I'm interested to learn about Afghani culture in the wake of recent events, and 2) it's a local interest story to me in Fremont.

I didn't know quite what to expect in terms of plot, and was ready to go along with the autobiographical nature of the book.

Then I learned that the author is a bit of a weasel. A spineless, spoiled coward, with no character. He disappoints at every turn, and then spends the latter parts of the book trying to make amends. He does some good deeds, but they still reek of selfishness.

Finally, the writing itself is of mediocre quality, so even if you wanted to taste the truth of his character, the bitter with the sweet, the book is just plain not enjoyable.

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Neat ending...but too long in coming

Revisado: 07-28-05

This is a fairly convoluted story that really requires the listener's full attention. All is not as it seems, which made for some cool scenes and "wait - did he just do that?" moments, but the whole thing is told through a number of different voices, some speaking "in the moment", others remniscing back...it's confusing at times. It takes you an hour or two just to figure out the relationship between the different characters.

That, in an of itself is not necessarily a problem - but it has to come together into a solid web at some point, which this story fails to do.

It tries a lame attempt at a dramatic ending, which again falls short, and leaves me wondering why I didn't quit after 4 discs like I wanted to.

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Good stuff!

Revisado: 07-28-05

A classic of the cyberpunk/sci-fi genre. Well written, well read - this one's a keeper.

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Definitely not as an audiobook

Revisado: 07-28-05

I didn't particularly care for the content in the book, though some of the stories were mildly entertaining. Useless, but entertaining.

More importantly, though, I was chatting with a friend who had read the paper book, and he commented on some important tables that illustrated concepts wholly missing from the audiobook.

If you REALLY want to check it out, go to your local Border's, get a coffee, and read it there. Or heck, even buy it, though I don't think it was worth a purchase.

But definitely do not take it in as an audiobook.

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