Washburn

absolutely indispensable for anyone interested in weight loss

Revisado: 04-25-25

This absolutely fantastic highly science-driven book clarifies many of them misunderstandings and issues present in human nutrition and weight loss. It overturns decades of wrong think generated by pseudoscientific supposed experts.

the author is a real scientist and supports every single one of their claims with real research.

The text is also well delivered by the reader.

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yet another masterpiece

Revisado: 01-29-25

This is either the best science fiction book you've ever read, or you won't make it 20 minutes.

simply put, Greg Egan is the only author alive writing true science fiction. as in fiction of science. as such a reader must have a pretty decent grasp of the current state of physics as we understand it to get everything out of this book.

so if you already know all about things like quantum computers, general relativity, and post-humanism this is the book for you!

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ignore the comments about the narrator!

Revisado: 07-28-23

before I bought this book I was hesitant because there were so many comments about the narrator being bad. but I don't agree at all. however there is one caveat to that. if you listen to it at 1.5 time speed it is perfectly fine. but if you listen to it at normal speed you will die of boredom

however given that you listen to it at a proper speed you will find that it is one of the greatest science fiction books ever written

I do not say that lightly. science fiction is my favorite genre.

however that also comes with a caveat, it is only the greatest science fiction if you are a person who truly loves science. someone who knows some modern physics and concepts of multidimensional topology.

now you don't have to know a lot about those. Even if you know the difference between a saddle and a toroid it will be enough

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NOT HISTORY!

Revisado: 08-18-21

The great courses should be ASHAMED to release this product!

It claims to be a history lecture about secret societies. But instead its *some* history couched in tons of bullshit and speculation.

Here's the main problem: the professor giving the talk fails miserably to make it clear and distinct between what is history (agreed upon by historical academia), what is someone else's speculation or conspiracy theory, and what is the lecturer's speculation. They muddle it all together so that you cant tell what is history and what is bullshit and that is COMPLETELY UNACCEPTABLE.

MOVE THIS TITLE TO THE FICTION SECTION!

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incredible insight

Revisado: 03-04-20

an incredible book with world altering insights.

myths are the binding glue of our species

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good book but middling ending

Revisado: 04-22-19

I consider it a pretty good book. I really like the premise and I enjoyed most of it. however I found the resolution of the main story rather unsatisfying varied if I like the book needed to be even longer to wrap everything up better.

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GET TO THE POINT!

Revisado: 02-11-19

I listened to all 6 books over the last couple months. I loved it at first. I really like Alanson's hard sci fi discussions on space based combat. I loved the interactions between the colonel and the asshole beer can.

But started as a fascinating and enthralling adventure among the stars became bogged down in tedious explorations of uninteresting people and places as if the author is just going through the motions.

Something its clear he struggled with, right from Book 2, is the problem of having an all powerful AI solve all your problems. But to solve this problem, the author uses very weirdly specific things as explanations for why the AI cant help. They seem all made up on the spot and its easy to see through them as the bandaid over a bigger narrative problem that they are. The thing the author doesnt seem to get is much of the charm of the first book is in the so called "competence porn" the AI provided (also found in The Martian) where a read can enjoy problems being solved without tension if the solution is interesting and cool.

The other problem, and the reason I couldnt finish book 6 and will not be returning is that the Author had the awful idea of following boring characters doing boring things in excruciating detail, seemingly as filler. In book 6 we spend *way* too much time on a training exercise with characters we have almost no reason to care about. Nothing cool happens. Its just.. life in space. But not in a fun, scifi way. Nope. Just boring.

So my advice to the author is to stop being a sell out and GET THE THE F**ING POINT!

P.S. Stringing us along for 6 books about these "mysteries" about the ones who built the AI is bad writing. After the 4th "oh wow, i wonder whats going on with that" I dont give a sh*t anymore.

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great Supporting Cast of characters

Revisado: 10-13-16

I really enjoyed this book and had to immediately buy the next one instead of waiting for another free coin. I only have to complain, the author doesn't seem to know how computers and programming work, and the main character is a bit too much of a straight man. But the other characters rounded out and it ends up being pretty good

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