Walter F. Kailey

Great story but ending is a little strange

Revisado: 11-18-24

Gets you interested really quickly. A very well-crafted detective yarn. Ending is very suspenseful and good but events related after case is over are strange and a little disappointing, at least to me. Detective’s voice a little overwrought by narrator

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Ends with an essay on free will

Revisado: 11-19-23

Great story, well told. I found it strange that Tolstoy appended an essay on free will, which essay convinced me of nothing and was besides difficult to follow. I loved it all except for that part.

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truly profound insights about life

Revisado: 02-02-23

Jordan Peterson explores what it means to be human and how we ought to live. His personal story is supplemented by his extensive clinical experience, and the result is a tour de force

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A deeply spiritual tale

Revisado: 09-17-22

It is rich with allusions to Tolkien, Christian theology, and, I think specifically Catholic teaching. I do not know the author’s religion, but this is what I think. It begins darkly and slowly but rewards the reader’s patience with joy and beauty in the end. I first read it as a teenager but had forgotten it completely.

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you must read this if you want the truth about energy and the human condition

Revisado: 07-01-22

At last someone has gone beyond merely debunking the junk science and combined most of the available, relevant and important facts into an argument that goes beyond science and technology to the realm of moral philosophy. This is a powerful and important work. God bless Alex Epstein!

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says what well-informed independent thinkers have long known

Revisado: 04-25-22

Alex Epstein has finally put in print what I have been saying to anyone who would listen for years. Thank God someone finally had the courage to face down the lying eco-fascists

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Falls short of its predecessors

Revisado: 11-01-21

New characters in London appear, and the story from the fifth book drags on interminably to a disappointing denouement. The new characters are a mixed blessing, one we esteem and a number with whom we do not much care to be acquainted. The book is perhaps too long by half, but it must nevertheless be read by those who find themselves washed up on its shores.

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What’s he driving at? Wittgenstein’s maxim, is that all?

Revisado: 10-10-21

Very well performed by the narrator, and yet I am left wondering what the author was driving at. He defines an apparently useful concept called language games, meaning, I would say, the behavior which gives to our use of words their shared understanding in a given context. Yet at the end, I can’t help thinking that modern society has through government paid a brilliant man to waste his life’s work on mere puzzles and missing that ultimately leaves society and posterity with little to show for it. My time was largely wasted, though I have some interesting bits of mental experience: for example, Mr scott is not a Scott. I call this Wittgenstein’s maxim.

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Fantastic story, solid narration

Revisado: 09-22-19

The story, the characters are worthy of Faulkner or Kesey. The narration is a solid performance. It nay be a generational thing, but older listeners might laugh at the narrator’s pronunciation of certain words and names, which may be unnoticed by younger listeners. I remember Chow En be Lai being pronounced “Cho”, but there were also ordinary words that, to my ear, the narrator didn’t know how to properly pronounce. For all that, he had good southern voices, male, female, black, and white. His Asian voice and pidgin were also creditable.

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an important book

Revisado: 04-16-19

George Gilder, eminent social scientist, has written another important book. His recent works have focused on monetary policy and technology. This book combines these two obsessions magnificently, as he lays out the implications of block chain technology and predicts the eclipse of Silicon Valley giants, big data, and AI. I hope he’s right about that, and I’m sure he’s right about a lot of things.

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