None of your damn business

Horrible recording

Revisado: 10-17-15

Could be a good book, if you can get past the quality of the recording

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Fascinating & Solid addition to his other work

Revisado: 08-30-15

I first read Nass in grad school, and its been the basis for much of my work in the field of User Experience design.

If you have an interest in human computer interface design, or just want a better understanding of the in-grained social dynamics that make people tic, check this book out.

It can be a little dry at times, but worth it.

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Not as good as Ready player one

Revisado: 08-06-15

Found myself constantly rolling my eyes anything this listen. The story was tho contrived and one dimensional. Just couldn't get into it, or care what happened. It was one trope or cliche after another. Cline really phoned this one in.

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Failed to meet very modest expectations

Revisado: 07-19-15

This was hard to get through, which surprised me. I heard early excerpts of the brook on the Escape Pod podcast years ago and remember sort of liking it.
Unfortunately it doesn't hang together as a book. I wasn't expecting great literature, (its a book that combines super hero's, Nazis, space aliens, and random comic book tropes), but I found myself rolling my eyes constantly.
This is one of those guilty pleasures that is great for Audiobooks or Kindles (no one sees the cover) but honestly it was mostly guilt, an no pleasure.

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Very Disappointing

Revisado: 09-24-14

What disappointed you about Atlas?

The story seemed slapped together, pulling directly, and liberally from anecdotes from famous military memoirs (Lone Survivor, With the Old Breed) and random factoids of recent technology trends. The characters were flat, and the plot was painfully predictable. I was excited to listen to this book, I love military Sci-fi, but this was very sub-par. You can't just write a 3rd-hand account of the Navy Seals training, and recast them as "Moths".

Would you ever listen to anything by Isaac Hooke again?

Not likely

Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Rhett Samuel Price?

Someone who actually knew what people in the military actually sound like, can pronounce common words (its myriad not My-rad). The voices and accents were distracting and at times borderline insulting.

If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from Atlas?

Almost everything from the training portion of the book. It frankly read like a very superficial Jerry Bruckheimer movie. I had almost no sympathy for the main character. He seemed like a 15 year old boy's ideal of a special forces soldier.

Any additional comments?

Skip it.

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This changed the way I think about politics

Revisado: 09-10-12

Where does The Righteous Mind rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

In terms of books on politics, philosophy and cognitive science, its one of the best.

The book tackles very sensitive topics - people's most closely held beliefs, and explains the WHY in a way that is sensible and non-controversial. Haidt provides a compelling case for why morality may have a genetic basis.

What was one of the most memorable moments of The Righteous Mind?

The chapter on Moral Foundations Theory. I laughed, I cried, it was better than Cats.

Which scene was your favorite?

Its not really that kind of book, but the part describing group selection theory was good.

If you were to make a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?

The most boring movie that ever changed your life.

Any additional comments?

Regardless of your political or religious persuasion, you should listen to this book.

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A secret history of WWII crossed with Monty Python

Revisado: 08-15-12

What did you like about this audiobook?

I love history, especially anything related to WWII. The history of Mi5's Double Cross program was a part of the story that I had never hear. The exploits of this motley crew of misfits reads like a dark comedy, but it all really happened.

Some moments are as delightfully absurd as a Monty Python sketch, but they are tempered by accounts of amazing acts of heroism that changed the course of history.

How has the book increased your interest in the subject matter?

It left me wanting to find more history books that tell these kinds of stories - the anecdotal, very human side of history.

Does the author present information in a way that is interesting and insightful, and if so, how does he achieve this?

His personal descriptions of the players and their quirks really make the book. Some of the details he recounts in the first person quotes are priceless. 'he was a complete shit'

What did you find wrong about the narrator's performance?

Nothing, it was spot on with perfect timing to deliver the best lines with bone-dry english irony.

Do you have any additional comments?

If you have an interest in WWII history, spy novels or biographies, you are going to love this one.

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A new perspective on the rise of the Third Reich

Revisado: 06-28-12

I am a fan of WWII history, but many books on the subject, particularly those that focus on the European theater, typically focus on the grand figures and political moments that lead to the "inevitable" outcome of the war.

This book is different. It tells the story of the inter-war Germany from the perspective of American ex-pats living there and witnessing the Nazi rise to power. You get to see the very flawed and human perspectives that shaped history as it happened.

I'd recommend the book to anyone with an interest in WWII and wants to understand what it was like to see the Nazi party take power.

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A candid, humorous and personal look at addiction

Revisado: 06-28-12

Johnston is a good storyteller, and I really enjoyed listening to her story. It was delivered with a great deal of humor and honesty.

The book itself is delivered more like a monolog than a memoir. Being an actress, I think Johnston's already strong storytelling abilities are naturally geared towards an Audiobook delivery rather than print. There were many non sequiturs that seemed completely spontaneous, and added to the authenticity of the story.

As far as the arc of her memoir goes, its not terribly different than the typical Hollywood addiction story, but the story is recounted in the humorous, self-effacing manner that betrays Johnston's Midwestern roots. She charms the listener and it makes Johnston a likable, but very flawed protagonist.

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His other books have been better

Revisado: 06-28-12

I liked the idea at the core of the novel, but the execution in the plot was awkward. There is an unpolished feel to the story - as if Scalzi had a bunch of different ideas, but couldn't tie them up into a convincing whole, so he tacked some additional fragments to the end. Also the notion of "A Novel with Three Codas" seems like a literary affectation worthy of an undergraduate creative writing major.

The storytelling was stilted and the dialog was very awkward - this especially came across in the narration where there are long passages of dialog between characters where each line is punctuated with "said ", with almost no variation - which becomes extremely distracting. Its almost as if some of the scenes started as a screenplay and got converted to a book.

The constant sarcasm of the characters and Wheaton's invariably sardonic delivery, (which often works in Scalzi's other audiobooks) fell flat here. It made it was hard to care about any of the characters, or to make the conflict believable. The characters lacked any emotional depth whatsoever.

Honestly, as much as I wanted to like this book, I can't recommend it. It was frustrating, sometimes hard to follow the dialog, and the characters just aren't that likable. Skip it.

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