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A book by a liberal about democracy and the Constitution

Revisado: 01-25-25

A book by a liberal about democracy and the Constitution. rarely a hopeful thing, unfortunately. but in this, I'm proud and grateful to see the author take the question he poses about American democracy seriously, and to Levy reasonable criticisms without hopeless America bashing. a truly insightful view, and although I don't agree with 100% of what was said (I am a liberal myself, but a rather moderate one), I finished this book with a better understanding of the American Constitution, American democracy, and of the context in which it was founded.
This book, like everything else by this author that I have read so far, is very much worth a read if you've got the time.

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Does this guy ever talk about free will?

Revisado: 01-20-25

seriously, does this side literally EVER DISCUSS OR EVEN DEFINE THE CONCEPT OF FREE WILL?
I'm eight chapters in and he has ignorantly discussed biology at uncomfortable length but has said very nearly nothing about free will.
Did the author actually forget what his book was supposedly about? RAMBLING BUFFOON.

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Overtly bad science pulls me out of the story.

Revisado: 05-18-23

The "science" represented in this book is so overtly bad that it pulls me right out of the story.
What's worse, it reinforces pseudoscientific nonsense that's pervaded popular culture for decades - like the notion that the collapse of a particle wave function requires a conscious observer rather than just an interaction with another particle (conscious or not).
It's nonsense.

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Misandrist tripe.

Revisado: 10-12-22

If you're not a misandrist, this book isn't for you.
the overly-inflated academic language has the author using a hundred words to say something that could be expressed in a single simple sentence, just to inflate her own ego. and the narrator constantly sounds like she's angry with you 🤔

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racist, sexist nonsense

Revisado: 10-01-22

this author is obviously racist and sexist, and kept spouting objectively indirect diatribes based on nonsense

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Extraordinary sci-fi as usual from Taylor.

Revisado: 08-09-22

Extraordinary sci-fi as usual from Taylor. the only thing I lament is when I finish a book and don't have any more to listen to by Dennis.

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sexist tripe

Revisado: 03-17-22

there was absolutely no reason to throw in your opinion on how horrible men are, and cite objectively incorrect claims to support it.

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not bad, but not objective

Revisado: 03-02-22

the author obviously takes an overly liberal view and interpretation of facts, but there are a lot of really good points made. I just have a problem with the anti-male views and interpretations expressed. for example, the author claiming that the secondary education enrollment and acceptance gender gap has completely disappeared... because there are now significantly more women being accepted into colleges than men. that is obviously just a gap of another kind, but it's obviously the kind that the author doesn't care about because it only hurts men.
other than a few points like this though, the book was okay overall. if you can get past that, you might enjoy it.

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one of the best books I've ever listened to

Revisado: 09-26-21

seriously, it's amazing. if you like hard sci-fi, buy this book! thank me later.

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absolutely incomprehensible accents

Revisado: 09-22-21

there is no reason to use so many different voice actors with so many completely incomprehensible accents. I genuinely could not follow or understand a lot of this book, because of how thick so many of the accents were. I had to buy it a second time on paperback, that's how bad it was.

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