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A dark, lyrical sense of history and place

Revisado: 06-11-22

Beautiful language suffuses this weighty story and summons a powerful sense of place and character. I loved listening to this wonderfully narrated novel.

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Excellent journalism

Revisado: 09-03-20

Extremely well researched and reported work. Jaw-dropping insights into the deep end of a very particular money, power and corruption game, how the UK let it in, and is now stuck with it.

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A wonderful novel

Revisado: 09-03-20

Long and languorous. After Matterhorn, I would read anything Marlantes writes. Deep River is not the masterpiece that is Matterhorn, but still a fascinating depiction of this moment in history.

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A bit half baked

Revisado: 09-03-20

The book as a whole lacks structure so that it reads, rather ploddingly, like a write-up of the author's notes - a travelogue more than a serious treatise. It makes for an anecdotal style overall that undermines the profundity and implications of Bullough's thesis. Also there are whopping omissions. No mention of the Panama papers, or the mortal dangers that more forensic investigators have encountered. Interesting, but definitely a missed opportunity.

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Nicely paced and stranger than fiction

Revisado: 10-23-19

Enjoyable and insightful look at the odd universe of old school spies and trade craft; the excitement and the banality. Ben MacIntyre is a fine writer and narrator.

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For Oppenheimer

Revisado: 10-23-19

Read i part to reconnect with being taught the Bhagavad Gita at school and also because I just finished 'American Prometheus' - this is a fine edition of the texts, interspersed with commentaries. Well narrated.

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Surely we're on the smooth cusp of something

Revisado: 10-23-19

We seem to be passing through a period of existential crisis in physics and neuroscience in particular, at the moment. Possibly it is the modern paradigm to be in crisis, but it seems particularly poignant right now. In any case, this is one of a small bookshelf of must-reads for comprehending this 'moment'.

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Moving history

Revisado: 10-23-19

This is a compelling and insightful curation of the events of the day. Highly recommended for its historical documentary value and hats off to the author/researchers for combing through the volume of eyewitness accounts to give us this summary.

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Disappointing and strangely anachronistic

Revisado: 10-23-19

I enjoyed the Social Brain, and the elucidation of an attention schema (author's previous work), but much of this book reads like a step sideways not forward. It's got an overly avuncular tone (which may also have to do with the narrator) and is an underwhelming summary of the pop-culture approach to consciousness. Especially the final chapters which read like an exercise in wool gathering and clichés.

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At the sad, beguiling heart of modernity

Revisado: 08-27-19

This is an exhaustive and incredible piece of work, long, essential and evocative. Its subject is deeply fascinating, which is an obvious and facile thing to say, but at the same time the authors are invested in the document of JRO's life and times more than subjective scrutiny or deeper analysis of the man himself.

Oppie lived through a time that continues to burn so brightly in history and memory, that it can render the present quite pale, as if the events and the people who made them are instead from some future. But instead their narratives and experiences have been and gone and are reflected upon here, shedding light on the human condition. J Robert Oppenheimer's story endures as one of the more remarkable of these.

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