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Bloated history of a validation-seeking engineer

Revisado: 06-30-22

The story doesn't go into the accomplishments of John Houbolt, so he probably didn't get much else done in the way of engineering. An engineer, who makes a career out of complaining about people ignoring his unoriginal idea might make an interesting article, but in order to make a book of it the author tells his family story (all were proud of their stubborness), and writes a few chapters about the highlights of the Apollo program.
Great sound design and good production with interviews, but a tortured biography that tries to make a clearly mediocre engineer into an overlooked key figure of the moonlandings. I wished it was a lot shorter and a bit more honest.

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Very ok sequel

Revisado: 12-11-20

Unsurprising and somewhat low-brow adventure in an enjoyably evolving universe. It's entertaining and very role-playingly visual in its delivery. Ray Porter misreads a lot of the scenes in a familiarly awkward way, which is fine as at this point listeners are used to it.

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Painfully uninformative

Revisado: 09-23-19

An unbearable collection of fill-in text, unhelpful discriptions and oversimplified examples. You will easily learn more about lean, six sigma etc. by reading a few wikipedia entries. Awful collection of books.

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Boring, except for the stupid bits

Revisado: 09-07-19

Bafflingly awful story with unfathomably annoying characters. The framing device is pure torture, the plot is wrought with holes, the characters are only into sex, drugs and gambling, the hero is a woman-beating douchebag who smokes cigarettes in tight and crappily retrofuturistic spaceships, there is practically nothing in the book that would be believable from scientific, psychological or world-building point of view....
It's an awful book.
Sound quality is ok, I guess.

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Not really up to hype

Revisado: 09-01-19

Filled with fluent regurgitations of the most famous anecdotes from the escapades of beloved scientists, this collection of snippets from history makes a good attempt at painting a picture of humankinds history in a contemporary nutshell. It's a good read if you aren't already too familiar with the genre.
The book doesn't bring out any new ideas or start new conversations. There are no new viewpoints into current issues, and a lot of the subject matter is considered from a very limited perspective (perfectly ok, since it's a short book on EVERYTHING, and the author recognizes this.)
Nice read, but I can't figure out the massive hype around it.

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Collection of New Age anecdotes.

Revisado: 01-13-19

Painfully embarrassing and cringeworthy tales from the life-long spiritual voyage of a famous actor. It seems the author takes pride in falling for every classic form of woo and psychic trickery he encounters, gullibly embracing every coincidence in his life as a profound display of spiritual guidance. The book lacks any effort to examine events or evaluate claims through reason or any kind of scepticism, and the reader is left helplessly watching from the side as the author takes the stage and proudly declares his unwavering satisfaction in a life where various spiritual professionals have provided him with just the right amount of comfort and pseudo-philosophical buzz for the money. The book seems like a collection of events from Woody Allen movies, told unironically and with the characters never really realizing how badly they have been duped and manipulated. I hope this is not as common a life-story in New York as it seems.

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Virtual afterlives and bitter revengeporn

Revisado: 09-28-18

Really nice addition to the culture universe, fleshes out the life in the rimward systems, and gives a bleak tour of selected afterworlds. Not quite as inventive in terms of world building, but a pretty nice selection of adventures!

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Autobiographical science

Revisado: 07-14-18

Nice inside view into the science behind recent interesting physical observations, as well as a look at the underlying theories. Reading is generally good, and the slightly annoying literary mannerisms of the author are easy to overlook.

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Status of AI research in pop sci terms

Revisado: 05-27-18

A lengthy account of the biggest topic in science on 2017, with a nice background story about organising THE conference. Inspiring, thought-provoking and a lot more mellow approach to the subject than the usual TED-talk-hypetrain.

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The best of the mythologies

Revisado: 05-15-18

Lively characters, funniest stories and best adventures. My favourite of all the mythologies/eposes so far. The Nordic sagas are like the Rick&Morty of national epics.
Loyal to the original stories and tales, the only bad thing about the book was its shortness.

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