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Timeless and appalling

Revisado: 07-04-22

Dostoevsky will crawl under your skin and show you to the nastiest parts of your humanity.
This classic is also a thrilling detective story!

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I was the biggest movie star in the world!

Revisado: 02-14-22

This book is an ode to excessive pride. The first third is maybe the most interesting, thanks to him not being born as a conceited Goldnugget. But the book looses it's charm quickly when Smith enters Hollywood. Did I mention that he became the biggest movie star in the WORLD?
In the last section, he discloses his mental and spiritual development and shares some advice, which any other 50 year old after a midlife crisis could give you.
The good thing is: He's staying real and never leaves out on the ugly parts. This book is surely the manifestation of every Will Smith fanboys wettest dreams, but there isn't much of a lesson in it if you don't read it for the star. I'm not entirely sure why there is such a hype around it. The narration and writing are excellent and go down like warm milk with honey. Smith and Manson surely combined their strengths excellently, if only they would have told the story of someone more admirable and less self centered.

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Memory isn't some magical superpower

Revisado: 01-24-22

The essence of what this book will teach you is really unsexy.
You will not hear the secret trick or swallow the magical potion to become a person of good memory. Instead you will learn little brain games that must be applied to every piece of information you want to learn. And then you need to do them over and over again.
It's not sexy, but this book, better than any other, makes it clear that of you fail to do this, that is not because of physical limitations, or a because you're not the chosen one. It is because you don't want to play the brain games. Because you're to lazy.
And while I am really disappointed to her that there actually isn't a spell to turn my memory into a photocopier, I think this book has managed to teach me how to improve my memory for real.

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Will bite you deeply

Revisado: 10-15-21

When I started listening to this book, I was going for a short walk outside. The short walk turned into a 4 hour hike over 13 kilometres filled with tears and empathy and yearning. Then I walked back home and it didn't feel quite the same anymore.
I am still aching from this book.

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A book of fates

Revisado: 08-03-21

Truly beautifully written and exquisite choice of perspectives. I learned and loved and grew through this book. It's a book in a million!

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Lights and Shadows

Revisado: 06-16-21

Harari throws at us the stinging uncomfortable facts of modern reality side by side with illuminating the shining opportunities we have through modern technology.
He asks infinitely important questions that will keep you awake at night - and will hopefully make us understanding better our world and what it is becoming.

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Audible Tears

Revisado: 11-25-20

The late life of this most remarkable woman conveyed in a wonderfully emotional way. I cried halfway through and again in the end, because it was over too soon. A really beautiful piece.

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One of my top 3

Revisado: 10-14-20

After I had finished the book I cried, because I didn't want Tara to leave me! So I straight started it again and listened to it all over.
What a great story! what an incredible life! Thank you for writing it down.
The narration is stunningly good, too.

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Changed my life

Revisado: 10-14-20

Since I read this book I never again dared to sleep any less than 8 hours a night.
I'm not a great fan of the narrator though. He did an even better job in putting me to sleep than the lessons did.

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Immortal

Revisado: 10-14-20

A book every person should read during their youth and then again in adulthood. No other written document has ever brought me closer to the meaning of war than this diary and more even: Anne also opened up parts of my own persona to me and taught me so much about life and love, despite her young age.
What an outstanding person. I like to think that with the success of her book and her immortality through it, her life wish has been fulfilled and she can smile in heaven.

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