Ashraf Abaza

Aging leads to dying.

Revisado: 10-28-24

We get born we live then we die.
New people get born, live, learn, then die.
Planets like earth get born, live, makes people, makcomputers , age, then dies.
The whole universe gets born, lives searches for meaning , ages, sleeps, then dies.
What’s the big deal ?

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Fiction at its highest level

Revisado: 01-25-24

The book is amazing. A little hyper melodramatic towards the end, as it becomes impossible to put the book down. I highly recommend it.

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A masterpiece

Revisado: 06-27-23

The book is so thrilling it’s very difficult to put it down. The narrator was simply amazing.

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Nobel worthy writer

Revisado: 02-14-23

To think that it was written in 1938 and to fast forward a decade or so to discover that Hemingway won the Nobel prize and this deep mind miner Wallace Stegner did not, is to remember that life is not always fair ( or honest ) .
In my book of greatest American literature masters, John Steinbeck is at top of the list. Stegner, who I only recently and accidentally discovered, is right near the top of that list.
Certainly much more deserving of Nobel than Hemingway.

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Untalented writer at his worst.

Revisado: 11-02-22

This a cheap imitation of some of Ernest Hemingway lesser novels, namely “ the sun also rises”.
I tried my best to find an iota of talent in this book. Tim Robins voice dies into inaudible whisper at the end of long sentences like a chain smoker who runs out of wind. I can’t believe it’s a recommended reading for high school children in 2022. It’s money poorly spent on this book.

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A nightmare

Revisado: 09-02-21

The intensity of boredom, redundancy, and goodness makes any human alive in the 21st puke.
By the end of the book you find yourself longing for some evil, stupidity, misery, and pain.
And you thank god you are awake.

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The way to die

Revisado: 08-30-21

Plato’s clear words are read in a clear calm balanced and unhurried voice. This audiobook is a priceless gem.

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Amazing

Revisado: 03-16-21

Humans will not look like us few hundred years from now. Do you want to bet ?
A beautifully written book.

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A master psychiatrist this Fyodor

Revisado: 01-08-21

A masterful dissection of the personality of the gambler, the Russian in the eyes of a French and English in the eyes of a Russian.
I learned more from this man than I learned from some of the best teachers and professors of psychiatry in the 20th and 21st century.
To understand gambling from within, every psychiatrist should read this book.

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Epochal psychological history

Revisado: 04-03-20

Masterful, magnificent, and unbelievable in the simplicity of its language. A state forward awareness of the inter mingling, and eternal marriage of souls- and- times, especially grand souls like these.
I am a surprisingly recent fan of
Ms. Pearl S. Buck.
A cup of hot, and soothing green Chinese tea to her soul and to the soul of the wonderful narrator,
Ms. Kristen Potter,
who read it impeccably and with great understanding.
It’s a book to treasure, and I expect a revival in human interest in it again in this 21 century.
Thank you.

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