Jason T. Meler

Great ending!

Revisado: 12-18-24

I liked the brief autobiography of one of my favorite guitarist composers. At times, it is a litany of accomplishments and, though interesting, can read like a resume. I’m sure he will get the job since he has the recommendation of the Boss’ Son. He didn’t need the rest of the resume…

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Inflated title: better title would be ‘An appreciation of quantum physics’.

Revisado: 07-17-24

The story that is told is reminiscent of a book that I had to read in undergrad called An Appreciation of Music. It was designed to instill the reader with a basic appreciation of the great composers, the great compositions, and the rudimentary knowledge needed in order to enjoy music. While I did find myself looking through old textbooks and Googling topics from this book because of appreciation for the subject inspired by this book, it did nothing else for me. Though the author made attempts at philosophical arguments, I found them to distract from the better parts of the book. At the end of the book, looking back on whether I wanted to listen again, it struck me that I was put off by the idea. The prospect of further quantizing the universe is like finding more digits of pi to me, so I looked into this instead and found that it had been calculated to 105 trillion digits! Though math can be fun for the sake of math, a rough sketch of pi serves just fine. I have to agree with the government about avoiding spending much on something just for the beauty of it. A rough sketch of the universe serves us well. It sounds like physicists have found it to be an irrational number.

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Dresden reborn

Revisado: 01-02-24

As long as Grimsby doesn’t become the Winter Knight, it will be cool. This skirts a very Dresdenesque world that you could even imagine as some future post Dresden magical apocalypse wherein magic users no longer are denied and in hiding, but are now policed by the unorthodox affairs instead of a White Counsel. It would be cool if Rayne was Harry’s great granddaughter.

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A masterful sermon

Revisado: 11-17-23

You can tell Brennan is a lover. He can’t deal with it well, and you get the feeling that he is like van Goh: doomed to be misunderstood. But I appreciate his art and the intensity of his feeling.

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Classic already

Revisado: 09-27-23

I really liked this short story! I can’t wait for the next book. I’d like some artist to make pictures of the spires and characters

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Not what I thought.

Revisado: 04-14-23

It promised to answer a question that I didn’t know I was asking when I first heard that there was a ‘Gospel of Thomas’. I wanted to know why it was excluded from what would become the Bible. I am also a bit troubled by the Gospel of John now. Unlike the author, who says she always liked this Gospel, I liked it less than the other three. There seemed dissonance with the other 3 and, not being a biblical scholar, I never questioned why. I just knew John was different and an outlier. Now I wonder if it was right to have been included with the other 3.

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Possibly better than Jim Butcher

Revisado: 04-13-23

This was the book I was hoping for and brought me back to an innocent Butcher world. It’s better than Dresden, which has become sort of a soap opera or comic book to me…with too many big ups and downs. I’ll still read my comics but liked this refreshing urban fantasy a lot.

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Excellent

Revisado: 09-02-22

Fun and twisted. Would have liked a better ending. It seems unfinished with too many new developments right before the end that are left unresolved.

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What Dresden should be in my opinion.

Revisado: 08-07-22

Really similar to James Marsters. In some ways better but in some ways not as good (I like his Bob better), and I’d listen to future Dresden Files narrated by the author. I liked this better than the apocalyptic setting of the last Novel which was my least favorite Dresden book. I’m still sore about Karrin’s death.

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Great performance, ok story.

Revisado: 01-12-21

Lulu Miller should be a voice actress. I definitely felt she was able to take me with her through her joys and sorrows and excitement and depression. Spoiler alert! It wasn’t so much what she was saying because I really don’t have much interest in a murdering misogynistic father of eugenics nor taxonomy of fish nor even philosophy. I am interested in the origin and meaning of language, but she only touched upon this lightly. In a book where she cautions about the importance or lack thereof of words and labels, it is the way she says them that makes this audiobook good.

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