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A bit of a slow start for a new story arc

Revisado: 09-08-23

A bit of a slow start for a new story arc, but worth the read if you intend to continue the saga that the mistborn series started.

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Stellar performance, w/ slightly long-winded story

Revisado: 07-20-21 El oyente recibió este título gratis

The story was great, albeit a bit long-winded...but totally worth it.

Great job by the performer, with minor hints of overacting here and there. There seemed to be little to go on WRT character description that would help her with dialects, so I'm impressed with the range she came up with.

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Rambles, and accent is unnatural for language used

Revisado: 11-07-18

The story rather on with impertinent details too long, and thee language used in the book doesn't seem conducive to the performer's English accent.

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some missing bits of audio around chapter 86.

Revisado: 09-24-18

some missing bits of audio around chapter 86. the audio seems to cut off before the end of the chapter...I think this Happened a few other times throughout the.book too. too bad...the story and performance are great otherwise.

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The story is just too slow. Even listening at 2x,

Revisado: 09-01-16

The story is just too slow. Even listening at 2x, I just can't seem to stay interested.

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Incredibly lengthy and repetitive.

Revisado: 09-23-15

Narration was fantastic, but about halfway through the author started repeating himself so much that I stopped listening three times in the course of 4 months. What I thought was going to be a delightful review of some Psychological findings ended up becoming a boring lecture, worded slightly differently about 10 times.

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Mostly general assertions & little evidence

Revisado: 10-05-14

If you could sum up The Dispensable Nation in three words, what would they be?

I'm confident, given his experience, that the author has valuable insight, but from the Prologue to Chapters 1 and 2, there was so much condemnation with such little supporting evidence that I could not continue listening. For example, in Chapter 2 (Ch 3 in audio download) he states Karzai's brother had "ties to the drug trade...giving them the means to line their pockets while abusing the local population." But he never describes what those ties were, what methods they were using to line their pockets, or how they were abusing the local population. Had he taken more time to provide concrete information less emotional retoric, this could have been a good book, but I cannot recommend it.

What do you think your next listen will be?

A more objective review of the history of the Middle East.

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Not worth the read.

Revisado: 11-24-10

The author clearly has little knowledge of research in cognitive-neuroscience, and I am disheartened at the nearly complete lack of empirical evidence presented to support his points of view. Yes, he sites some studies, but only on periphery topics, that don't support the meat of his arguments.

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