Michelle Gaines

The Very Best

Revisado: 10-26-24

I’ve spent the better part of the last nine years trying to figure out what the hell happened in this country—to people I love and acquaintances I trusted and strangers I at least assumed were sane.

No author—no book (and I’ve read over 100 on just this)—explains it more clearly, more definitively, or more unflinchingly than this one.

My second reading comes just ten days before the 2024 election and has helped me brace myself for what may be inevitable. God help us all.

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Amazing!

Revisado: 06-21-23

Thank goodness some remained to tell the story. Thank goodness Tim Carter was willing to share such a painful, disturbing, yet ultimately triumphant personal tale!

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Excellent!

Revisado: 02-16-23

A concise and clear explication of the true roots of our curren Christian Right. Sets the record straight once and for all. Excellent writing, engaging narration. Will definitely explore more by same author & narrator.

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Fascinating!!

Revisado: 01-29-23

I’m so glad Gina Welch undertook this journey! It unfolded exactly as it was meant to unfold, and she tells the tale just as she lived it—bravely, eloquently, intelligently—all while remaining true to herself and loving toward those she encountered.

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Fantastic!!

Revisado: 02-28-22

An absolute pleasure to listen to a book so informative, so well-researched and so wonderfully narrated! I learned so much about a world I only knew in passing, and it was so engagingly presented, I am going on to other books by this author as well as others read by the same narrator. Just loved this book! Makes me want to fly to Cleveland!

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Excellent Read

Revisado: 01-02-22

Comprehensive, engaging and informative overview of gigantic manufacturing operations and their societal impact—not only upon the people who toil in them and the surrounding communities affected, but on the consumers detached from many of the costs of these “behemoths” who enjoy the benefits of their production.

My only criticism is the reader’s use of accents in dialogue within the prose. Not really necessary, and not very good. But everything else about his reading is fantastic!

I’ll be thinking about the ramifications of this book for some time to come, and will never look at my I-phone in quite the same way.

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Best by Far!

Revisado: 08-31-21

This is unequivocally the best book on nutrition I’ve ever read, and I’ve read more than a sensible person ought to read. I’ve gone Atkins, did South Beach, tried Ornish and Powter, went Paleo, tried Keto and have sworn off sugar time and time again.

Finally, a well-researched, nearly encyclopedic overview of all the misinformation culminating in a sensible approach anyone can understand and anyone can follow. Last book on the subject I’ll ever need to read. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

And, to boot, the style is engaging, spiked with narratives, and totally engrossing. The narration is excellent! Can’t praise enough!

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A Pleasure!

Revisado: 09-09-19

I’m an English major who somehow got through school never having read this book. What an awesome production! I couldn’t wait to hear what happened next. More Audible Originals like this, please!

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Fantastic!

Revisado: 12-02-17

Well-written, easy-flowing. A must-read for those open to well-researched truth. (Flynn admitted guilt just yesterday!) I had no idea Trump's connections to Russia date back to the last 70's! Though I knew a good deal of the information already (news junkie)-- there was enough revelation to keep me riveted.

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Alternative Medicine (a.k.a. "woo")

Revisado: 05-22-17

What disappointed you about The Body Keeps the Score?

I purchased it based on several five-star, highly enthusiastic reviews. Turns out it is filled with alternative approaches to treatment ranging from the questionable to the nonsensical. The supposed "research" confirming the efficacy of these practices (yoga, "EMDR" (!), animal therapy, theater therapy) in treating something as serious as PTSD (especially the developmental sort) are not confirmed in the larger scientific community at all. Most of the book is an extended info-mercial for the author's treatment center and other materials.

Has The Body Keeps the Score turned you off from other books in this genre?

I will stay away from anything labeled "alternative." Who needs an "alternative" to real medicine or real science?!?

Which character – as performed by Sean Pratt – was your favorite?

Sean Pratt's delivery was exemplary. I would definitely listen to anything he narrates that might be of interest to me.

What character would you cut from The Body Keeps the Score?

Bessel Van Der Kolk, M.D.

Any additional comments?

I can't remember when I read a book that left me feeling so hopeless.

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