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Dawson is great, story not so much

Revisado: 07-15-18

Can you rip off your own style? Weir's second book is just not nearly as smart as The Martian. The Martian was an intellectual exercise in story form. This is a movie pitch by a smart man. Entertaining enough to enjoy but unlike The Martian, I expect to like the movie more than the book this time.

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Transformative

Revisado: 07-15-18

This book has been transformative. It was my first meditation book. Now I'm gulping down mediation and Buddhism books every week. I buy audiobooks because I'm dyslectic and reading is just too slow. I bought my wife the print copy because we all learn differently. I've used the print as a reference, to look back through for parts I want to read again. That's always easier in print. But the audiobook, read by the authors, is clearly the better experience. OK, I'm a little tired of Dan's voice after reading this and subscribing to the app, but his performance is genuine and enthusiastic. Jeff's voice just makes me want to mediate. And the mediation is baked into the audible download. Really a great experience.

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I even sent a copy to my therapist.

Revisado: 07-15-18

Really brilliant. Helps me connect my therapy with my meditation practice. I even sent a copy to my therapist so she could keep up.

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The Breath is ironically the problem

Revisado: 07-15-18

I want to read Batchelor's work and I started here, but I can't get past his very strange breathing pattern here. Many times, he seems to struggle for air, taking breaths between each work, or every other word. It isn't just cadence either. It is the sound of the breath. He's recording engineer (if he used one) is largely to blame for this. He is clearly positioned talking directly into the microphone (instead of slightly to the side or above) which makes it sound like he's gasping at the air right next to your ear. Now if it were at a constant cadence perhaps I could look past it, but the mix of normally-read and oddly-read finally caught up to me a couple of hours in and I put it down. The irony is that the breath is so important in meditation. I even tried to meditate on his breath and note my aversion to the pattern but I just couldn't do it. In the passages where he talks about the importance of the breath, I tried to find the meta-level understanding, but I couldn't. Perhaps I'll try again when I'm closer to enlightenment.

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