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Uncommon common sense

Revisado: 07-27-17

This book gives gentle, sensible responses to real situations and specifically includes Autism and other issues we parents deal with. A great set of answers to the harsh opinions we hear in our heads.

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First of Many

Revisado: 02-02-17

If you could sum up Detecting Deceit in three words, what would they be?

This is a book I needed to read forty years ago.

What other book might you compare Detecting Deceit to and why?

I am hoping that this will start a trend of similar books; there is nothing out there like this today.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

Yes, and then backed it up to listen again.

Any additional comments?

This absolutely is useful for people who don't have modern media as a factor. I was gobsmacked at how clearly the authors described what happened in the social bullseye around the abuser and victims.

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Regular Tune-up

Revisado: 09-20-16

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

I come back to this book over and over again, and give it to other people. Possibly my top value audiobook ever.

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Everything you know is wrong, Hurray!

Revisado: 08-28-15

What was one of the most memorable moments of NeuroTribes?

The descriptions of the lives of children under the care of Lovass. My son was actually in therapy based on his methods, and after two sessions the therapists demanded I step out during the sessions. Instead we both quit. What a good call that was!

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Sneaks up on you

Revisado: 04-11-15

What made the experience of listening to So You've Been Publicly Shamed the most enjoyable?

I have read other books by Jon Ronson, and had expectations. This is not an expose sort of book. The second listen gave me time to see how he came to a very surprising (to me, anyway) conclusion.

What’s the most interesting tidbit you’ve picked up from this book?

People like to be looked at. It's a pretty simple idea. Being the parent who stays looking into the play place makes you a very great parent by kid standards, and if you are willing to go up with them -- ever -- it's as if you hung the moon. We never outgrow wanting to be seen and included.

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Amanda lives in the world I live in

Revisado: 11-23-14

Would you listen to The Art of Asking again? Why?

This is a book best listened to in a group of people and then hearing the book as heard by all the people.

What other book might you compare The Art of Asking to and why?

The book most like this is one I found in my grandmother's collection, the Art of Writing by Dorothea Brande because of the courage of their voices. That book is now on Audible; check it out.

Which scene was your favorite?

When her husband proposed -- over and over again.

What insight do you think you’ll apply from The Art of Asking?

Now I know someone famous does stuff I've done all along.

Any additional comments?

Like Dorothea, Amanda is way ahead of her time. I plan on living in a world with many of her kind if I live long enough -- and humanity will be better for it.

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A reality that makes sense

Revisado: 04-03-14

What did you love best about High Price?

I loved the book that was not written, Without going out and saying so explicitly every time Carl Hart made a choice that changed the direction of his life at least one other "how this could have gone down" was clearly available. It was like an origami book, folding in on itself every which way.

What other book might you compare High Price to and why?

I don't know if this counts as a book but my first reaction to finishing it was to go to people I had not talked to in years, make re connections, and collect their stories while they still could. This book reminds me of the best of what autobiographies can do and made me wish to collect my own.

If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?

Hard looking

Any additional comments?

I wish that this book could be read by everyone, especially people who are at the social far ends.

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One half of a very good book

Revisado: 04-03-14

Would you listen to Night School again? Why?

I'm going to be listening to the back half of this book over and over again. The ongoing research and instructions for lucid dreaming will take time to learn but puts into words something that I have done myself since my teen years.

What was the most compelling aspect of this narrative?

The idea that your dream life can be a video game of your waking life allowing you to create new paths to go on, to practice and rehearse, and to explore so that you have the opportunity to experience in your waking time a far richer and more confident "time when it counts".

If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?

How to succeed in Dreamland without really trying

Any additional comments?

The beginning of the book covers the history of sleep research, which I think everyone knows. I enjoyed his retelling of Thomas Edison's flexibility with the truth as far as how much he in fact slept. Taking another look at The Wizard of Menlo Park's life as opposed to his legends is pretty common lately but both Peter Noble and author Richard Wiseman gave an especially funny "behind the curtain" look at a not so well known figure in history.

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What a wonderful find!

Revisado: 11-10-13

Would you listen to Lost Enlightenment again? Why?

I've listened to it more than once and will be listening again.

What did you like best about this story?

The rich, personal and true to the moment exchanges between the people who created history. It's possible to have a dialog with a book and this is one of the best examples I've ever read on how someone can have as a mentor someone hundreds of years in the past.

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

The most gut wrenching moment for me was the author's candid, frank and short explanation of why this period produced no women who were great lights. This came early in the book and in it explained how so much learning never passed out of the courts and to the common people.

Any additional comments?

I hope to find more of the source material and read it, then return and read this book again.

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If I could give my brain a long, hot shower

Revisado: 05-21-13

What did you like best about Confessions of a Sociopath? What did you like least?

I Loved the contradictions and internal disconnect -- I've rarely seen the concept of a person without empathy more clearly acted out. For someone to express that they are broken, abused and stunted while at the same time crowing that they are the apex and possibly an improved part of the human condition -- yes, that's these people at their most two dimensional. What I liked least was the lingering feeling of pity. The mood brought on by reading hung on after like a bad smell.

Were the concepts of this book easy to follow, or were they too technical?

The concepts were overexplained and the book could have gotten in and out in a much shorter time.

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