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I didn't give a f*ck about this book

Revisado: 07-31-18

The author decided to sprinkle almost every sentence with "fuck". This is the only fucking difference between this fucking book and any other motivational book out there. It's not offensive, it just becomes fucking tiresome after a few fucking paragraphs. One starts wondering if the author's vocabulary so fucking limited that he can't get his fucking point across any other fucking way.

But then again, it's full the same re-hashed trivialities as thousands of other motivational books, so maybe he though this was the novel way to sell them.

So no fucks given as long as I get my Audible credit back.

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Very disappointing

Revisado: 10-20-12

Would you try another book from Richard Dawkins and/or Richard Dawkins and Lalla Ward ?

Not any more. I've read most of his earlier works, but his more recent books seem to contain no new ideas, just rehashing of the old ones.

What was most disappointing about Richard Dawkins’s story?

Very simplistic, written at a 5th grader level. No new ideas.

What didn’t you like about Richard Dawkins and Lalla Ward ’s performance?

The tone is very paternalistic, almost condescending.

What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?

Utter disappointment

Any additional comments?

This book is written at a level appropriate for 5th graders, so if you plan to give it to you child it may warrant 5 stars. But if you are an adult who retained even half of your high school science curriculum you'll find nothing new here. Moreover, if you are a fan of Dawkins' earlier works (Selfish Gene, Blind Watchmaker, etc.) you will be utterly disappointed. I was left with a sense that Dawkins totally exhausted his talent and is only capable of rehashing his earlier ideas under a new cover every few years (and doing it in such a simplistic, almost condescending way).

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Exceptional Work

Revisado: 12-17-07

There is not much to say except that this book is a masterpiece and narration by Ethan Hawke is an excellent bonus!

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good ideas, slow presentation

Revisado: 04-10-06

While I definitely like the ideas presented in this book, I found some of the stories that are included as examples to be way too long and mind numbing. With some of them I would spend my entire 30 min morning commute listenning to a point that an average person can get in 2-3 sentences. Also the music interjections are annoying - makes you feel like you are reading a drama about somebody succumbing to terminal illness and leaving 5 children orphant. The book about managing your life should have a more upbeat music, if any.

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So-so

Revisado: 01-05-06

I thought this would be a collection of interviews, transcripts, etc. In other words, more or less a collection of facts. However, I noticed more than a few inconsistencies that make me think the authours put a lot of their own fantasies in it. For instance they describe how the guy sitting at the window of the South Tower saw the United plane approaching and he could see a logo "U" clearly. Well, the airline logos are on the tail fin so if you are facing the plane you cannot see it, especially if the plane is coming at you at 500 mph. These are minor details but they make me think what else could be distorted.

Also I can't help to think authors tried to put their 2 cents into the blame game. Except they stretched as far as implying that changing the building code in the 60s was partially to blame and earlier skyscrapers would fare better. There is no evidence that Empire State Bldg would do any better. In fact most architects and engineers today say it is impossible to make buildings 100% safe against all imaginable deliberate acts like 9/11. The fact is it's in the human nature to learn from experience, sometimes a painfull one.

These speculations appear somewhat abruptly through out which makes it a little difficult to follow the main line.

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1984

Revisado: 02-20-03

This is a must-read for anybody who wants to get even close to understanding what it is like to live in a country like Stalin's Soviet Union, Kim's North Korea, Saddam's Iraq, or Fidel's Cuba.

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